You probably missed the announcement that the Doomsday Seed Vault officially opened today. According to a Science magazine of a few years back, "A 'Doomsday' seed vault, designed to preserve the world's agricultural diversity, will be built to survive the worst scenarios of global warming for at least 2 centuries, according to architectural plans released last week. The $4.8 million Svalbard Global Seed Vault will be located on a Norwegian island just 1000 kilometers from the North Pole (Science, 23 June 2006, p. 1730). The plans call for two chambers dug deep into a mountainside 130 meters above sea level--more than high enough to stay dry even if all the ice in Greenland and Antarctica melts. The chambers will be connected to the outside via a 120-meter-long tunnel."
There is nothing new about Doomsday vaults and chronicles. Their function is to provide historical records so that order can be maintained or that civilization can continue in case of catastrophe. The first such chronicle that I know of is The Domesday Book written about England around 1066AD or so and at the request of William the Conqueror. The story I offered in I've been tagged again can also be thought of as a Doomsday vault and chronicle because it fulfills both functions mentioned above.
In any case, feel safe now? That broccoli you didn't want to eat as a kid will outlive you thanks to this Doomsday vault. Yippee.
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