#doomsday vault

[eretzyisrael]

[cozy-games]

Doomsday Vault is about exploration and collection. I love space and I love nature so this game has really done it for me. The message is important, and even though the controls are a bit clunky, for me personally, it's worthwhile. Maybe wait until it's on sale to grab it, it's a hit pricey, but worth it.

Website: Here

Steam Page: Here

[norsecraft]

Endgate Prison

It seems a little cruel, maybe, but one of the most important features of Endgate is the prison.

Endgate’s history is one of tragedy, and they’ve had their entire population eradicated once before. The prison is more accurately a “doomsday vault”, which houses 3 villagers, their beds, and their workstations, completely encased in blocks to hide and protect them from hostiles. I did a lot of testing in my creative test world and found that vexes—which were my biggest concern—wouldn’t attack villagers if the pillager who summoned them couldn’t see the villagers, which included if they were concealed by opaque blocks like iron bars.

And since Endgate is directly over a stronghold, I had no shortage of iron bars lying around.

[cat-eye-nebula]

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

[rjzimmerman]

'We Can't Trust the Permafrost Anymore': Doomsday Vault at Risk in Norway

"Not good."

Excerpt from this Common Dreams/EcoWatch article:

Just over a decade after it first opened, the world's "doomsday vault" of seeds is imperiled by climate change as the polar region where it's located warms faster than any other area on the planet.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which opened in late February 2008, was built by the organization Crop Trust and the Norwegian government on the island of Svalbard next to the northernmost town in the world with more than 1,000 residents, Longyearbyen.

"Svalbard is the ultimate failsafe for biodiversity of crops," said Crop Trust executive director Marie Haga.

Northern temperatures and environment on the island were a major reason for the construction. According to in-depth reporting from CNN, the project planners hoped that the permafrost around the construction of the underground vault would, in time, refreeze. But the planet has other plans.

Longyearbyen and, by extension, the vault, is warming more rapidly than the rest of the planet. That's because the polar regions of Earth—the coldest areas on the planet—are less able to reflect sunlight away from the polar seas due to disappearing ice and snow cover.

[killowave]

[glblctzn]

Welcome to the "doomsday vault" in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, the vault holding almost 1 million seeds as insurance against catastrophes like nuclear disasters and climate change. The seeds might be needed sooner rather than later, as temperatures near the vault are rising three times faster than rest of world – and rising temperatures have caused the permafrost surrounding the vault to melt. Read more about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and why you probably shouldn't actually call it the "doomsday vault.⁣” ⁣ (📷: John McConnico/AP) 

[currentsinbiology]

The world just got a SECOND doomsday vault, because of course we did

In the side of a mountain atop the frigid wastelands of the Norway's Svalbard archipelago sits the Arctic 'doomsday vault' - an ominous facility that's locked away close to a million seed samples from almost every country on Earth.

Designed to keep the seeds safe from nuclear war or some other global catastrophe, the Svalbard Global Seed Bank just got a new neighbour, with a second doomsday vault opening up nearby. But instead of storing seeds, this vast library has been built to ensure the survival of the world's most important books, documents, and data.

"We believe that we can save the data using our technology for a whole 1,000 years," Katrine Loen Thomsen from Norwegian technology company Piql told local broadcaster NRK.

Known as the Arctic World Archive, this new facility has been built into the same frozen mountain as the original seed vault, and is open to governments and research facilities from around the world as a place for storing their records.

Companies and private individuals can also pay for the privilege of having their information locked underground for at least the next millennium, deep inside an abandoned mine that's been frozen in Arctic permafrost.

Oddly enough, instead of taking advantage of the most advanced data security systems available, researchers at Piql have opted for a more analogue approach - they store everything on photosensitive film, which they say is a far safer option than anything digitised.

The seed vault. Credit: Mari Tefre/Crop Trust