Construction of Norway's Doomsday Vault Begins Today

"It sounds like something from a science fiction film--a doomsday vault carved into a frozen mountainside on a secluded Arctic island. But Norway's ambitious project is on its way to becoming reality Monday when construction begins on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, designed to house as many as 3 million of the world's crop seeds."

Seems sorta doomsday paranoid to put all the worlds crop seeds, though, in reality, anything could happen to them, or a species of grain may dissapear. In reality it may be a good theing that Norway is doing it, we'll just have to see.

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