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Arctic seed bank readied for 'doomsday' scenario

Norway will begin construction of a "doomsday vault", a vast top-security seed bank in a mountain near the North Pole to ensure food supplies in the event of environmental catastrophe or nuclear war.

Built with Fort Knox-type security, the $A4 million depository will preserve around two million seeds at sub-zero temperatures, representing all known varieties of the world's crops.

(Via Aberrant News.)

Also to be housed in the vault is a hardback copy of Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity Is Near."