Posts tagged ‘svalbard’
The Massive Underground Vault Near the North Pole
By Chad Upton | Editor
Imagine your computer caught a really bad virus and you lost all of your files.
You lost all of the documents you’ve worked so hard on, all of the family photos you never printed and all the desktop icons you never clicked on. Hopefully, that never happens to you; if it does you’d probably be devastated, unless you have a thorough backup. Unfortunately, many people do not have a proper backup.
Now imagine our food crops or oxygen producing plants were being killed off by an aggressive virus that we couldn’t stop. If that happened, and it’s possible, how would we produce food to eat or air to breath?
Luckily, some smart people are keeping “backups” of as many plants as possible, so we can grow them again in the event of some man-made or natural disaster that wipes out existing crops and seeds.
These facilities are called seed banks. (more…)
Broken Secrets 