Arctic 'Doomsday' vault stronghold for world’s seeds

>>141606
It wasn't weartherproof.

IT WASN'T FUCKING WEATHERPROOF BUT IT'S SUPPOSED TO SURVIVE MANMADE DISASTERS!?

Oh god we're all fucked.

>>141606
>Build artic vault for doomsday Armageddon
>Not waterproof

>>141607
To be fair, Permaforst isn't supposed to melt.

how the fuck didnt they think about this

QUOTE: "It was not in our plans to think that the permafrost would not be there and that it would experience extreme weather like that."
It's not that 11 years ago they didn't know about global warming...

>>141606
Fake news. Liberal lugenpress at it again.

>>141620
>Being this bluepilled
KEK

>>141623
Fuck off /pol/

>“Flooding is probably not quite the right word to use in this case,” says Cary Fowler, who helped create the seed vault. “In my experience, there’s been water intrusion at the front of the tunnel every single year.”

>At the base of the slope are two pumping stations to remove any water that might get in. Then there's a slight uphill section before you reach the doors to the vault itself

>If there was a worst case scenario where there was so much water, or the pumping systems failed, that it made its way uphill to the seed vault, then it would encounter minus 18 [degrees celsius] and freeze again. Then there’s another barrier [the ice] for entry into the seed vault,” Fowler says. In other words, any water that floods into the tunnel has to make it 100 meters downhill, then back uphill, then overwhelm the pumping systems, and then manage not to freeze at well-below-freezing temperatures. Otherwise, there's no way liquid is getting into the seed bank—so the seeds are probably safe.

>We did this calculation; if all the ice in the world melted—Greenland, Arctic, Antarctic, everything—and then we had the world's largest recorded tsunami right in front of the seed vault. So, very high sea levels and the worlds largest Tsunami. What would happen to the seed vault?” Fowler says. “We found that the seed vault was somewhere between a five and seven story building above that point. It might not help the road leading up to the seed vault, but the seeds themselves would be ok."

http://www.popsci.com/seed-vault-flooding

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault%2C_tunnel_down_to_the_vault_-_panoramio.jpg

It's fucking nothing OP. You literally made a thread about a useless hallway getting flooded

>>141606

>be Norwegia
>build money trap
>call it vault against human created doom
>shit gets destroyed by human created melt down

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>>141627
>or the pumping systems failed

WAIT! NORWEGIANS BUILD HUMAN CREATED DOOM SAVE PLACE WITH PUMPING STATIONS????

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAH

They could have put this shit litterally anywhere underground in a mountain range, they're fucking retarded

>>141642
name a better, safer seed bank.

>>141616
to be fair, permafrost melting would fit the description of a natural disaster

>>141616
Yeah, it's not like they were designed to actually preserve the seeds in the event of projected man-made or natural disasters such as that.

>>141654
A celibate's scrotum.

Looks like conservatives beat brainless European liberals once again.

>>141682
Underrated kek.

>>141683
How? By throwing yet more money into pointless wars or offshore accounts? Do you think ideology will fill your stomach in a famine?

>>141664
Not according to most Republicans.

>The vault’s managers have installed pumps to remove water if it is flooded again and are working to make the entrance tunnel waterproof. They must now wait to see if soaring temperatures seen at the end of 2016 were a one-off or part of a longer trend.

It already happened once. Like just water proof the damn thing.

>>141687
only a nuclear war could wipe out my offshore accounts

>>141638
>He didn't read the article

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Fuck off, /pol/.

>>141606
would be safer to just eat the seeds and then shit them into the ground.

>>142125
Fuck off liberal cry baby

>>141664
So is a fucking meteor hitting the planet but it's not gonna survive that either.

This thing is designed for stuff we can hold off like virus infection and nuclear fallout.

>>141801
It doesn't take a nuclear war to make money worthless. At the end of the day, how are you going to spend it if everything worth buying can't be bought anymore?

>>142297
By investing in bottlecaps and ringpulls.

>>141801
or a One changed to a Zero.