It’s almost ready for ‘business’ according to their releases. Buried inside a mountain in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, the Global Seed Vault often referred to as the doomsday seed vault stores back-up seeds for every one of humanity's food crops. “As an added precaution, the Oreo packs are wrapped in mylar, which can withstand temperatures from -80 degrees to 300 degrees Fahrenheit and is impervious to chemical reactions, moisture and air, keeping the cookies fresh and protected for years to come,” said Oreo in a statement. J utting out of the permafrost on a mountainside on Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago, the entrance to the world’s doomsday seed vault is worthy of any James Bond movie. Doomsday Seed Vault The seed bank is being built inside a mountain on Spitsbergen Island near the small village of Longyearbyen. Built on permafrost in Norway, its much smaller than its inspiration, but still has everything you’d expect from a doomsday bunker. An anonymous reader writes 'The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built into an Arctic mountain, received its first delivery of tree seeds.Opened in 2008, the vault is designed to withstand all natural and human disasters. The Global Oreo Vault was inspired by the seed vault built in the Arctic to preserve the earth’s botany in the case of a full-blown disaster. Svalbard Global Seed Vault, secure facility built into the side of a mountain on Spitsbergen, the largest of the Svalbard islands (a Norwegian archipelago. So they decided to build a full-blown doomsday bunker to protect the precious Oreos. While it has been determined that the asteroid will harmlessly burn up in the earth’s atmosphere if it does attempt to hit us, Gordon’s tweet still grabbed the attention of Oreo and its parent company Mondelez International. Built into a hillside 75 miles south of Washington, D.C., the nuclear-era bunker constructed for the chairman, board of directors and staff of the Federal Reserve System included an enormous vault. 3, after news of a potential asteroid collision with the earth in November had been circulating for a while, Twitter user and cookie-lover Olivia Gordon tweeted wanting to know who would save the Oreos. The Doomsday Seed Vault has been built In cooperation with major genetic engineering agribusiness giants such as DuPont and Syngenta Mexico and Brazil are the only countries that so far have submitted to the expanded vault.

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