nomos
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this is great
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7264758.stm
but coupled with this you start to feel like maybe you're out of the loop...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/10/sciark110.xml
are there more of these things?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7264758.stm
Leading dignitaries have attended the official opening of a 'doomsday' seed vault built 130m (426ft) inside a mountain on a remote Arctic island...
The vault, designed to withstand all natural and human disaster, will house samples of all known food crops.
but coupled with this you start to feel like maybe you're out of the loop...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/10/sciark110.xml
Plans are being made for the first experiments to pave the way for a "doomsday ark" on the moon.
An artist's impression of an European Space Agency mission station on the moon
The lunar databank would eventually be manned
The ark would contain DNA, embryos and all the essentials of life and civilisation, to be activated should Earth be devastated by a giant asteroid, a climate flip or nuclear holocaust.
The information bank would provide survivors on Earth with a remote-access toolkit to rebuild the human race, said Bernard Foing, the executive director of the International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG).
are there more of these things?