{"id":3985,"date":"2006-01-13T06:47:22","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T06:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2006-01-13T06:47:22","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T06:47:22","slug":"norwegians-prepare-for-worse-build-food-ark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/norwegians-prepare-for-worse-build-food-ark\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegians prepare for worse, build food ark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds a lot like that so-so movie <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Titan_AE\" class=\"external external_icon\">Titan AE<\/a><\/em>.  Minus the ginormous spaceship and the Earth blowing to bits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blocked\"> Norway is to build a &#8220;doomsday vault&#8221; in a mountain close to the North Pole that will house a vast seed bank to ensure food supplies in the event of catastrophic climate change, nuclear war or rising sea levels, New Scientist says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news9794.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Built with Fort Knox-type security, the three-million-dollar vault will be designed to hold around two million seeds representing all known varieties of the world&#8217;s crops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are the precious food plants that have emerged from 10,000 years of selection by farmers.<\/p>\n<p>The facility &#8220;would essentially be built to last forever,&#8221; according to a feasibility study.<\/p>\n<p>It will be built deep in permafrost in the side of a sandstone mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, 1,000 kilometers (625 miles) from the North Pole, the British weekly says in its next issue, out on Saturday.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=1702\" class=\"external external_icon\">warren ellis<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds a lot like that so-so movie Titan AE. Minus the ginormous spaceship and the Earth blowing to bits. Norway is to build a &#8220;doomsday vault&#8221; in a mountain close to the North Pole that will house a vast seed bank to ensure food supplies in the event of catastrophic climate change, nuclear war or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}