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'Doomsday' Seed Vault Opens in Arctic

A "doomsday" seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

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Feb 26, 2008
 
What does it say about the present?

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Feb 26, 2008
 
Carl C wrote:
What does it say about the present?
What do you mean?
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Feb 26, 2008
 
Carl C wrote:
What does it say about the present?
that there are a lot of paranoids out there, why?
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Feb 26, 2008
 
Carl C wrote:
What does it say about the present?
Nothing. It's someone's fantasy. Probably a scientist who reads [and believes] Nostradamus.
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Feb 26, 2008
 
They should store some hot chicks in there too, and keep replenishing them as they get older, just in case.

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Feb 26, 2008
 
Will Rogers wrote:
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Nothing. It's someone's fantasy. Probably a scientist who reads [and believes] Nostradamus.
Heh, in truth, it has happened before, and it WILL happen again, question is simply 'when?'. It's a harsh reality, nothing wrong with being prepared for it.:) Floods, famine, asteroids, climate change, just take your pick.
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Feb 26, 2008
 
They better do something about the Bees. Without them the seeds are worthless.
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Feb 26, 2008
 
cookie monster wrote:
the goverment knows something there not saying or it would cause mass panic or why would they build such a thing the sheeple need to open there eyes
http://www.sheeple.net/Sheeple.htm
do you think saying "sheeple" makes you seem like a smarter person than other people?
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Feb 26, 2008
 
I bet the grasshopper called the ant paranoid too.

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Feb 26, 2008
 
cookie monster wrote:
<quoted text>no not everyone but i just dont belive the hog wash from the goverment and that is my opinion just like yours do you and do you belive everything you see on tv if so we are done talking....
did you make that site on your atari 5600?
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Feb 27, 2008
 
Edd wrote:
I bet the grasshopper called the ant paranoid too.
since ants like to eat grasshoppers.........the grasshopper is smart to be paranoid.
after a global catastrophe..........such as those we theorize happened in the past..........the earth has recovered and carried on its way around the sun..........
in 10,000 years that cold storage site will be forgotten.....and good to nobody.
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Feb 27, 2008
 
I have a nice building lot for sale in the Everglades.

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Feb 27, 2008
 
Hopefully, seed of Cannabis are included, despite the best efforts of the Bushes, Clintons et. al. to have a world-wide eradication of hemp.
Hemp has incredible nutritional benefits. Hemp for centuries was the source of paper, clothing, rope et.al. And yes, hemp oil with THC can cure a myriad of illnesses including cancerous ailments.
Hemp is far superior to all the 'bio-renewable' sources touted as a fuel.
Screw Bush and others others who cannot include hemp in a sentence of bio stuff that heralds switchgrass corn, sugarcane and other idiotic stuff to run the country and wean us off oil. Hemp doesn't require fertilizer or pesticides or herbicides.
Washington, the Pharmaceuticals and big business don't like it because they don't see a profit in something that has grown for centuries.

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Feb 28, 2008
 
cookie monster wrote:
<quoted text>dam you figured it out do you have one also lol......
yes, of course!
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Feb 28, 2008
 
Spanky wrote:
They better do something about the Bees. Without them the seeds are worthless.
I don't think the Bees would be to happy up in the Artic circle. They freeze their - "Stingers" off up there!
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Feb 28, 2008
 
too droll to troll wrote:
Hopefully, seed of Cannabis are included, despite the best efforts of the Bushes, Clintons et. al. to have a world-wide eradication of hemp.
Hemp has incredible nutritional benefits. Hemp for centuries was the source of paper, clothing, rope et.al. And yes, hemp oil with THC can cure a myriad of illnesses including cancerous ailments.
Hemp is far superior to all the 'bio-renewable' sources touted as a fuel.
Screw Bush and others others who cannot include hemp in a sentence of bio stuff that heralds switchgrass corn, sugarcane and other idiotic stuff to run the country and wean us off oil. Hemp doesn't require fertilizer or pesticides or herbicides.
Washington, the Pharmaceuticals and big business don't like it because they don't see a profit in something that has grown for centuries.
which cancers can thc cure?

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Feb 28, 2008
 
firmus wrote:
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which cancers can thc cure?
Quite a few. May I suggest going to www.jackherer.com . Or try the IMVA pages. Also www.youtube.com/chrychek . Many cures with real hemp oil with THC, as the only things the FDA and pharms are interested in is syntheric THC, whereas, real hemp oil has over 60 different chemicals in it. Synthethic THC has only a marginal effect and only on a small percentage of users.
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