They are building a doomsday vault in the Arctic. Meter-thick walls of reinforced concrete, two airlocks, high security blast-proof doors will protect the seeds from natural disasters. Or nuclear war.
(35, 000 warheads still aiming at each other.
Immediate environment:
blast
thermal pulse
neutrons
x- and gamma rays
radiation
electromagnetic pulse
ionization of the upper atmosphere.
Blast effect:
ground shock
water shock
blueout
tens of millions of degrees
centigrade
cratering
dust
radioactive fallout)
Or in a thousand years the reinforced walls crack on the melting permafrost and the winds carry the spoils out into an uninhabited world.
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Sunday, November 19, 2006
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