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Originally posted by Rockpuck
the fact it isnt being reported AT ALL?!!?
Originally posted by Hellmutt
Originally posted by Rockpuck
the fact it isnt being reported AT ALL?!!?
It happened and it has been reported as well. Also in english, not just norwegian. Just see the links provided already in this thread. But it has not been widely reported and that might be a bit suspicious. Keep in mind that just because they use the word "Hiroshima-bomb" it doesn't mean "the end of the world". It was not radioactive and it didn't hit a city or house. The explosion was "as powerful as a Hiroshima bomb" but it was not a nuclear explosion. I guess it was lucky that it didn't kill any people, but I wonder if there might have been any microbes, bugs or viruses in this thing...
The room is a "doomsday vault" designed to hold around 2 million seeds, representing all known varieties of the world's crops. It is being built to safeguard the world's food supply against nuclear war, climate change, terrorism, rising sea levels, earthquakes and the ensuing collapse of electricity supplies. "If the worst came to the worst, this would allow the world to reconstruct agriculture on this planet," says Cary Fowler, director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, an independent international organisation promoting the project. [...]
To survive, the seeds need freezing temperatures. Operators plan to replace the air inside the vault each winter, when temperatures in Spitsbergen are around -18 °C. But even if some catastrophe meant that the vault was abandoned, the permafrost would keep the seeds viable. And even accelerated global warming would take many decades to penetrate the mountain vault.
"This will be the world's most secure gene bank by some orders of magnitude," says Fowler. "But its seeds will only be used when all other samples have gone for some reason. It is a fail-safe depository, rather than a conventional seed bank."
Originally posted by Echtelion
It's impossible to be rationally apologetic of the mainstream media on this one! More than TWO DAYS later and the ig media outlets are still not talking about it... this is INSANE!
What if this meteor would have been larger... like kilometers large? Would they have talked about it before? THis is out of proportions...
Originally posted by Rockpuck
I'm saying reported by the mainstream media