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Thousands Of Crop Varieties Depart For Arctic Seed Vault
Science Daily ^ | 1-26-2008 | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.

Posted on 01/26/2008 11:09:25 PM PST by blam

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1 posted on 01/26/2008 11:09:27 PM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv
GGG Ping

Doomsday Arctic Seed Vault Designed to Withstand All Perils

2 posted on 01/26/2008 11:13:32 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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Just a suggestion. Don’t forget the demon seed.

Send the Clintons down there...


3 posted on 01/26/2008 11:17:16 PM PST by DoughtyOne (< fence >< sound immigration policies >< /weasles >< /RINOs >< /Reagan wannabees that are liberal >)
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To: blam

Sounds like a good idea.


4 posted on 01/26/2008 11:19:48 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: blam

a pretty rational idea, actually, if government workers didnt actually get to plan the facility itself.


5 posted on 01/26/2008 11:35:16 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: blam

I assume this group of scientists does not believe in global warming.


6 posted on 01/26/2008 11:35:17 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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Great point. Love it.


7 posted on 01/27/2008 12:00:38 AM PST by Picklezz (Congressman HUNTER, many of us were counting on you being our President and saving America.)
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To: blam

...do you get the idea that they know something we don’t? Is there an asteroid headed our way or something?


8 posted on 01/27/2008 12:10:21 AM PST by americanophile
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I assume this group of scientists does not believe in global warming.

No, they believe in climate change. Global warming is passe at this point. Get with it, man.

With coming climatic changes, higher food prices, and expanding markets for biofuels, our best available options for progress, if not survival, will be in what we have conserved and studied against all thinkable predictions.”

9 posted on 01/27/2008 12:23:04 AM PST by Bob
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To: blam

Why? If globle warming and hilary care is going to destroy us all, what the hell do we seeds for?


10 posted on 01/27/2008 2:11:27 AM PST by Waco
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To: americanophile
Is there an asteroid headed our way or something?

Statistically speaking, yes, there are asteroid strikes in our planet's future.

11 posted on 01/27/2008 4:34:35 AM PST by woofer (Earth First! We'll mine the other eight later.)
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To: blam

But did they gather any Wildwood Weed seeds?

All good things gotta come to an end,
And it’s the same with the wildwood weed.
One day this feller from Washington came by,
And he spied it and turned white as a sheet.
Then they dug and they burned,
And they burned and they dug,
And they killed all our cute little weeds.
Then they drove away,
We just smiled and waved ..........
Sittin’ there on that sack of seeds!


12 posted on 01/27/2008 5:39:06 AM PST by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: Waco
"Why? If globle warming and hilary care is going to destroy us all, what the hell do we seeds for?"

Hopefully so that we won't have to go back through the 'hunter-gatherer' stage again.

Toba

"Genetic evidence suggests that Human population size fell to about 10,000 adults between 50 and 100 thousand years ago."

13 posted on 01/27/2008 7:35:46 AM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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14 posted on 01/28/2008 12:03:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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To: blam
I hope that somebody thinks to put a supply of topsoil in there, too. You just never know what the future holds.

I'd hate to see some "Twilight Zone" ending to this where the Brave New World has all the seed it needs, but no soil to grow it in.

-PJ

15 posted on 01/28/2008 12:06:00 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
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It’s just a matter of time that we get smacked real hard.


16 posted on 01/28/2008 12:07:37 PM PST by ASA Vet
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"I'd hate to see some "Twilight Zone" ending to this where the Brave New World has all the seed it needs, but no soil to grow it in."

No-one that will know where the seeds are will survive anyway.

For example: Pick any 100 people in every city in the world...I expect not one will even know there is a seed vault much less where it's located.

BTW, I have my own seed, fertlizer and pesticide vault.

17 posted on 01/28/2008 2:48:50 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

Ah, but the mighty Goracle, who is wise beyond measure, says that the seeds will be flooded out soon. (sarcasm -for the record)


18 posted on 01/28/2008 5:52:50 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: americanophile

Maybe Yellowstone really is gonna explode?


19 posted on 01/28/2008 8:54:11 PM PST by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: blam

I am really glad that seeds that are not artificially, genetically altered are being protected somewhere.


20 posted on 02/04/2008 9:55:09 PM PST by Bellflower (A Brand New Day Is Coming!)
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