Doomsday OK!
Doom-ready Norwegians plan a vault party.
Thank you, Norway. Now, when mankind in his petty childish stupidity finally destroys the Earth, we will have seeds!
I don’t know who else is on the guest list, but it’s beginning to sound like all the world’s leading do-gooders could be lured in and locked in a vault deep in an Arctic mountain, thereby ridding the Earth of some much seedy goodness. Good lord, what a diabolical plot! I mean, look who’s guarding the place.
“My job is to keep away people who aren’t supposed to be here — and guard against polar bears,” vault worker Jimmy Olsen said, was standing outside the entrance with a rifle slung on his shoulder. There are an estimated 3,000 polar bears on the islands.
Not clear why this got buried. Jimmy Olsen guarding a Fortress of Solitude, with a greenish Kryptonite glow around the door? Mere coincidence? Something’s horribly wrong here. It’s like some evil genius has a wicked sense of humor. Maybe Dr. von Doom. I know, that’s Fantastic Four. But I’m afraid something terrible could be about to happen to all the world’s leading greens!
Topics: Greenness
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:30 pm Comments (10) on Monday, February 25, 2008
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February 25th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Okay, maybe it’s overkill, but I don’t see anything wrong with this. Global warming or war, meh. But natural disaster? If they keep the thing up and running for the next five hundred years or so, it could be a hedge against the next ice age, or possibly an asteroid strike, why not? We are arrogant indeed if we don’t think those things could happen to us, even as unlikely as they are.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
And I intended to add, we buy insurance, don’t we, never expecting (hoping) we’ll never need it.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
“There are an estimated 3,000 polar bears on the islands.”
But they are an endangered species.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:45 am
Jimmy Olson… Fortress of Solitude… Superman’s foe “Braniac” was green.
Hmm… Think about it!
(and maybe they have the Bottled City of Kandor in there, too.)
I was actually thinking that good ol’ Bucky Turgidson would have some thoughts on this.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:08 am
Think “No Blade of Grass” and USDA’s seed bank at WSU. Even seeds have a shelf life.
On further reflection, shouldn’t they have put that bank on a mountain so they wouldn’t have to dive in those frigid waters? The sea level is supposed to rise about twenty feet according to Algore.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:52 am
The idea makes several assumptions that I’m not sure are warranted. First of all, Global Warming is supposed to bring on the next Ice Age. This vault is situated in a place that, should an ice age occur, will be under a ton of glacial ice. Depending on how long the ice age lasts, will there be people who even know about it, or know what to do with the stuff if they should happen to come upon the facility? The last small ice age lasted 10,000 years. In that amount of time, even language will have changed and reading whatever information found there will take the skills of some very smart people with the time to do it.
I don’t have any problem with, say, a private institution spending their money to do this. However, my concern is that so much energy and money is going into doomsday scenarios, rather than working out how to exploit the situation to further man’s life on his good earth.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:15 am
That’s pretty funny. Rebecca’s right, though, it’s probably not that bad of an idea. Hey, you never know, it might come in handy someday.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:26 am
This is a dumb idea…nature has been around a lot longer than people…it destroys what is no longer viable and replaces it with things that are viable. Dinosaurs didn’t work out….I’m pretty sure I’m happy that someone didn’t store “dinosaur seeds”…especially meat eating dinosaur seeds. Being someone elses lunch just doesn’t fit my personal idea of “bio-diversity”.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
So where does Lois Lane fit into all of this?
February 26th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Being someone elses lunch just doesn’t fit my personal idea of “bio-diversity”.
Dude, you’re just a Gaia hating species-centric paleo.