Australia sends seeds to Norway Doomsday Vault

Isn't this a pleasant post! Australia are sending the first of which will be many deposits of seeds to an international seed bank. The seeds are transported to a chilled Norwegian bunker near the North Pole, where they have collected seeds as an insurance policy against disease and disaster.

The seeds Australia have sent are from a Horsham seed bank and includes a rare Australian chickpea. The seeds are being sent on Friday to the remote island of Spitsbergen, 1300 kilometres from the North Pole.

Now onto the more interesting bit of this news, the vault.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which is often referred to as the "doomsday vault" is an ex-coalmine that has stored seeds for nearly three-decades.

The vault has an ever-expanding collection which contain samples from 1/3 of the world's most important food crop varieties. Numbers are in the 400, 000 mark, which are all stored underground at minus 18 degrees.

It really hits home, with all of the scary-stuff happening world wide in the form of bird and fish deaths, earthquakes, flash-flooding in Queensland, Australia and the various other constant wars and famine - that this type of stuff is done (which is in a way a good thing), it just really makes you think.

A vault for seeds, what else do they have stored?

Recent happenings for 2011

What a great start to 2011.


We have had birds falling from the sky, millions of fish dying, 487 earthquakes in Guy, Arkansas, a river in Victoria turning bright green and the possible cause of this? It might be the magnetic north pole moving toward Russia (with a back up link available here).


We've had all sorts of natural disasters, weather pattern changes, fish, birds, all sorts of absolutely abnormal things happening worldwide, with no one I know talking about it - this is the biggest thing of all.


People are too wrapped up in their own little bubble-land of life, with these absolutely crazy things happening and no-one bats and eyelid. I've provided full google links with multiple sources within those links. If you don't believe what you've read in a simple paragraph, spend a little bit of time reading through those links.


It may not be the cause, but the coincidence is a great theory. What you cannot deny, is the multiple events that are happening at once.

After letting this stew for a while I did some more reading and found a link that shows the Earth's magnetic field direction. Also, there's a video that shows off quite a bit of movement between 2000 and 2010.

Look at the top of the Earth, and how fast the North is moving (the blue bit) between 2000 and 2010. Quite alarming.

Enjoy and happy new year!