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By the way, I ran across this bit of news today:
A vast underground vault storing millions of seeds from around the world has opened in a mountain on a remote island near the Arctic Ocean.
Dubbed the "Doomsday Vault," the seed bank is considered the ultimate safety net for the world's seed collections, protecting them from a wide range of threats including war, natural disasters, lack of funding or simply poor agricultural management.
The Norwegian government paid to build the vault in a mountainside near Longyearbyen, in the remote Svalbard islands between Norway and the North Pole. Building began last year, and the vault opened officially Tuesday.
Good Lord, maybe Silent Running really is coming true...
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Better that Silent Running come true than, say, Rush Hour...
--jpw
Pineapples!!
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