20,000 plant species from 100 countries shipped to Svalbard seed vault

Tess. wrote:A Noah's Ark of 20,000 plant species will unload this week at a remote Arctic port to deposit humanity's latest insurance payment against an agricultural apocalypse or a man-made cock-up.

Brazilian beans and Japanese barley are among the botanical varieties that are carried aboard the ship that is shortly expected to dock near the Svalbard global seed vault, that celebrates its sixth anniversary this week.

The facility, which is bored into the side of a mountain by the Barents Sea, is primarily designed as a back-up for the many gene banks around the world that keep samples of crop diversity for agricultural businesses. But its operators, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, say the "Doomsday Vault" could also help to reboot the world's farms in the event of a climate catastrophe or a collapse of genetically modified crops.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/26/svalbard-global-seed-vault-plants-shipped

Do they know something we dont?

Ben_Reilly wrote:This has been going on for a LONG time, I've never read anything more sinister into it than the idea that the world is under one constant threat or another -- from climate change to nuclear war to meteor strike to zombie apocalypse ( ) and preparations should be made for life to survive such a thing.

heavenly father wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:This has been going on for a LONG time, I've never read anything more sinister into it than the idea that the world is under one constant threat or another -- from climate change to nuclear war to meteor strike to zombie apocalypse ( ) and preparations should be made for life to survive such a thing.

that will be because your american...  

Ben_Reilly wrote:

heavenly father wrote:

that will be because your american...  

What does my nationality have to do with it?

heavenly father wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

heavenly father wrote:

that will be because your american...  

What does my nationality have to do with it?

come on you guys tried to kill the actor who played JR...lol ..  

Ben_Reilly wrote:

heavenly father wrote:

come on you guys tried to kill the actor who played JR...lol ..  

Um, no we did not. I'm not aware of anybody ever trying to murder Larry Hagman, and if it did happen you really can't pin that on all 300 million-plus Americans ...

Tess. wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

heavenly father wrote:

come on you guys tried to kill the actor who played JR...lol ..  

Um, no we did not. I'm not aware of anybody ever trying to murder Larry Hagman, and if it did happen you really can't pin that on all 300 million-plus Americans ...

But we can pin Monsanto on you!    

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Tess. wrote:
But we can pin Monsanto on you!    

You can't pin Monsanto on me! It was founded 73 years before I was born, in a state I've never been to, and I've never had the opportunity to cast a vote on a single issue concerning Monsanto.

heavenly father wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Tess. wrote:
But we can pin Monsanto on you!    

You can't pin Monsanto on me! It was founded 73 years before I was born, in a state I've never been to, and I've never had the opportunity to cast a vote on a single issue concerning Monsanto.

the actor who played JR got regular death threats...  

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Tess. wrote:
But we can pin Monsanto on you!    

You can't pin Monsanto on me! It was founded 73 years before I was born, in a state I've never been to, and I've never had the opportunity to cast a vote on a single issue concerning Monsanto.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

heavenly father wrote:

the actor who played JR got regular death threats...  

Amanda Abbington got death threats from British people when it was announced she was going to play Watson's wife. So I guess you, being British, are just as dumb as them!  ::D:: ::D:: ::D:: 

Tess. wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Tess. wrote:
But we can pin Monsanto on you!    

You can't pin Monsanto on me! It was founded 73 years before I was born, in a state I've never been to, and I've never had the opportunity to cast a vote on a single issue concerning Monsanto.

I meant on America, not you personally!  On corporate greed really though; they'll still be troughing while all the world's crops and wildlife die because of their frankenstein meddling.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Tess. wrote:
I meant on America, not you personally!  On corporate greed really though; they'll still be troughing while all the world's crops and wildlife die because of their frankenstein meddling.

I know that's what you meant, I was just trying out this "wind-up" humor that seems to be so popular on your soggy little island   

Tess. wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Tess. wrote:
I meant on America, not you personally!  On corporate greed really though; they'll still be troughing while all the world's crops and wildlife die because of their frankenstein meddling.

I know that's what you meant, I was just trying out this "wind-up" humor that seems to be so popular on your soggy little island   

But I don't live on that soggy little island, I live on an even soggier littler island.    

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Tess. wrote:
But I don't live on that soggy little island, I live on an even soggier littler island.    

I'm sorry, meant no offense -- which one?