With the Norwegians having a seed vault and the US not having one ... why there there is a Seed Vault Gap Mr. President!!!
Posted on 02/27/2008 5:13:39 PM PST by blam
If its doomsday whos going to plant the seeds?HMMM!
If there’s another Ice Age, won’t this vault be buried under miles of glacier ice?
might do their cause more good if they put ‘em somewhere where they could grow.
I was thinking that if something happened to the earth that was catastrophic enough for us to need these seeds, who would know where they were and how would they get there. How about those keys?
Anyway, I have my own vault.
I have some seeds in my garage. Wonder if they want those too.
My thoughts exactly.
“Anyone seeking access to the seeds themselves will have to pass through four locked doors: the heavy steel entrance doors, a second door approximately 115 metres down the tunnel and finally the two keyed air-locked doors. Keys are coded to allow access to different levels of the facility. Not all keys will unlock all doors. Motion detectors are set up around the site. Boxes of seeds inside the rooms are scanned before entering the seed vault.”
What happens if they lose the keys? Or if the world falls apart? Be a little hard to restart agriculture if no one can get to the seeds.
I’ve got my own seed vault that’s inside my barn. While not real protected, it’s full of three generations of basic seed crops. Not three crop generations, but seeds from every year since our farm was first plowed by my great great grandfather in 1905. Absent moisture, they are waiting for the next American reniassaince. With food that’s worth a days wages, we can only wait until a time when food is more precious than gasoline or oil.
Wouldn't it have been simpler to make a scarecrow?
With the Norwegians having a seed vault and the US not having one ... why there there is a Seed Vault Gap Mr. President!!!
They’ll open it up and find lots of fat mice.
If a disaster is bad enough to kill every plant and animal that we use for food, I doubt we’re going to be around to need those seeds.
the soil will probably have taken a beating also. and how about acid rain?
you wanna talk about global warming? ok fine..i live in michigan, its one of the coldest winters weve had yet. weve also had alot more snow than ive seen in a long time..yet this "global warming" they talk about would mean, no snow, no rain, hotter temperatures...yet last summer we only had a week where it was 90 or above, the rest of the time it was maybe 75 degrees at most. growing up as a kid even, it was hotter than hell.
thank you al gore.
somebody put up the "were all gonna die" thing now..
I have about a million hollyhock seeds if anybody wants some.
A cool refuge against Global Warming?
I guess they’re just getting started, but 100,000,000 seeds is nothing. I’m pretty sure I have that many crabgrass seeds in my backyard right now.
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