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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. [5] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks. This provides ...
A knowledge ark (also known as a doomsday ark or doomsday vault) is a collection of knowledge preserved in such a way that future generations would have access to said knowledge if all other copies of it were lost.
The two men behind the so-called “Doomsday vault” holding 1.25 million seed samples ― seeds that can be used to rebuild much the world's food supply if catastrophe hits ― are this year’s ...
On the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, just 800 miles from the North Pole, stands the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.It’s a super-secure facility that protects more than 1 million seed samples for ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is hidden approximately 400 feet deep inside a mountain on a remote island between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The doomsday vault that's supposed to store ...
The vault supposedly contained Oreos wrapped in Mylar, powdered milk and the recipe for Oreo cookies. [7] The campaign was inspired by a tweet posted on October 3, 2020. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The company uploaded a series of scripted parody videos about the vault to YouTube , [ 10 ] and released social media content which built up to a mockumentary about ...
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. [1] Created by J. Robert Oppenheimer , Albert Einstein & Eugene Rabinowitch [ 2 ] and maintained since 1947, the Clock is a metaphor , not a prediction, for threats to humanity ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is hidden approximately 400 feet deep inside a mountain on a remote island between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The doomsday vault that's supposed to store ...