I live in Norway (we own Svalbard) and we don’t even allow Walmart to have stores here, because they won’t tell us where they get the stuff they get their stuff. Just a fun fact.
It’s reassuring to see every nation on earth having vested interest in preserving this vault. I hope that because everyone has skin in the game, even in a worst case scenario, thousands of years of agricultural advancement made by billions of people throughout the history of mankind would survive.
She's said no gene altered crops. All of our crops are gene altered. They aren't storing our progress, they are storing what the earth offers naturally. They should have an area for genetically enhanced crops- our progress, and also the main components to many different drugs.
@@thatguy6214 I agree. I suspect Monsanto could possibly be preventing nations from keeping genetically-altered crops the same way that they prevent farmers from holding onto their own seeds.
Yes, only for the fact that what we have done is agricultural retrogression. (To a large part. I know there are some advances in there too. I don't wanna trigger you guys working in agronomy).
Yeah. But, its worth noting that Longyearbyen was bombed and occupied by the nazis in WW2. The seed vault is part of mine no. 3. That's an abandoned coal mine. Some of these mines run straight through the mountains so that's why there was some bombs flying back in the day. Did I mention that Russia also have their own city up there, and have been muttering about not enjoying the Norwegian supremacy of Svalbard for the last 100 years? What I'm saying is: we all agree to the seed vault being a great thing until one day there's some trigger happy ding dogs who decide they want to strike this or that place. Buuut the seed vault is far far into the mountain, so likely to survive A LOT. And Svalbard is such a beautiful place. I've lived up there. So so nice
In case anyone was remotly curios. the two boxes from Canada shown, the one first looked at and the one the Bente had her hand on, are from Plant Gene Resources of Canada. They contained Hordeum Vulgare(Barley) and Glycine Max (Soy bean plant).
As a science fiction lover and someone who has studied dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction extensively, I can’t help but feel like this vault is a no-brainer. Sure, a scenario in which it might become necessary for human survival AND is accessed by people who would use the seeds for good purposes isn’t even all that likely, but it’s no overstatement that agriculture is what made human civilization possible in the first place. For the most part, we take that for granted way too much.
@@yourmom2262 There's way more actually! I work in a seed bank and we collaborate with many countries. Most countries have their own seed banks (though most are relatively small and only store a maximum of maybe a few hundred collections). (He actually mentions in the video there's about 1700 seed banks around the world!)
Sounds like they have no idea what they have in there but if they’re smart they’ll have marijuana and hemp and all the other drugs as well. That’s just stupid to assume we won’t need those compounds.
There's a new study out claiming hemp can prevent Covid from entering cells. I'm skeptical, but if it's true it would bolster the case for storing seeds of it.
"People want to put their personal seeds in here" My immature brain: Hehe personal seeds. Engineer: "We've had men wanting to put their gene material in here" .......
While on the surface this comment seemed to be intended partially as a joke, you raise an important point. Pollinators play a huge role in agriculture and we need to protect them. However, it would be much more difficult to make a vault to back up the species of animals that pollinate because it's not easy to create living organisms from DNA. Also if a whole species died and we brought it back using stored DNA, there's a chance that the species would not have some of the behaviors that it has before it died off, because some behaviors are learned from other members of the species and there would be no extant members to teach the new members how to act. Also, some insect colonies have hierarchies that might be difficult to recreate and make viable again. Long story short, our best chance of protecting pollinators is when they are alive. We need to learn about the ways they function in their ecosystems and make sure that we protect the things that keep them alive.
that a country in syria's state is sadly common.what's new is that they had a bank to use instead of just suffering without. it'd an idea you normally go, why sent aren't we doing this...except we have, and it's awesome
"You know how I can tell its -18°?" I grew up in the northeast us, and got a big smile when he said that because I knew what was next. It doesnt get that way too often here in the winter anymore, but when it does and I'm with someone who's not from here, it's pretty funny when they're caught off guard by it.
@@kathyabel5338 mr. nice, the famous cannabis-lord also signed a lot of contracts... i don't see that much of a difference between what he could do with a box that's going on a plane and what someone today could do with the seed vault. "those aren't coca seeds, see here on the contract it's clearly apple-tree"
+Andrew Harper 'Seedless bananas' aren't really seedless. They're hybrids and have very small seeds. Hybrids are different from GMO's. It sure would be nice to learn that the bananas have been saved. Along with chocolate and coffee, probably one of the most popular foods on the planet.
I'm imagining some kind of epic post-apocalyptic adventure story of people finding and busting into the seed vault to bring back food seeds to a ravaged world.
And if you didn’t know. The main guy behind these dopop shot Mr bill gates own a nice piece of that facility and he also own majority of all farm crops in America. I wonder what he is up to. Hmmm
Just so u know i live in norway and theres actualy mqnny problems whit the vault first the cylinder steel enterence is crumbling bc moving dirt it leaks inn watter bc they had like under a year tp build it so they dident plan it right
akcodwolf1 personally i cant stand smarter every day. something about destin is borderline rude. the engineers who help him out are constantly interrupted by him making jokes and it seems like he always wants to show that he is a "science nerd" and a good father. My personal opinion. i still think its great how hes making millions of people learn though
well North Korea will be fine, their people are so used to doing stupid menial tasks that being told to be human bees & hand pollinate everything will just be treated as a normal day lol seriously though, it would be a problem, but there are options like hand pollination & bees aren't the only pollinator & presumably any government depositing seeds has thought of this & has deposited seeds with a mix of pollination methods & those that don't need pollination to produce food
Excellent information! Before hybrid seeds became available in the early 1930's, farmers grew a wide verity of seed crops that were hardy and thrived on their land. There were hundreds of varieties of corn and beans. After plants were bred for uniformity to allow for mechanical harvesting, many plant varieties were lost forever. Had it not been for farm and gardening families who kept growing the heirloom seed and later the Seed Savers Exchange, our farm crops family tree today would look like a telephone pole. To better see understand the urgent need for banking plant genetics. By growing a national crop that has the same genetics, you have the making of the Great Irish Potato Famine of 1845. ~ Thank you for making people more aware of the value of preserving our food plants genetic treasures for the Future.
@Jacob Acunia That would visually look horrible because its writen down in a datase with sql. And on top of that they use sciantific names like "sinapis alba".
+Xeno Your wrong. Legalization has support on both ends of the political spectrum. Seriously why does everything have to be conservative vs liberal, parties can agree on stuff you know.
Holy cow this was referenced in a tv show I just watched and They did a really good job recreating this! It's called Into the Night. I don't know why I assumed that the show wouldn't go for realism but I'd never seen inside it before, only read about this place. Very cool!
If they really cared about the biodiversity and future, wouldn't even the "illicit" plants matter considering they might/ do have medical or scientific purposes.
They're really hurting their own cause for some "this natural plant is bad bc I say so" argument. There are epilepsy cases were marijuana derived medicines are the only thing that can give them a qaulity of life. The people saying marijuana can't be stored there, are saying those epilepsy patients don't deserve to be seizure free because some random dude might like smoking it.
I would think so. There are a lot of medically useful drugs that have no recreational application; the world would be hurting if we lost some of those.
The goal of the Svalbard seed vault is to contain the seeds used for agricultural biodiversity. The plants stored are all the plants that make up what is used in every day food. Which is why plants like marijuana aren't stored yes there are cases where marijuana can be used for medical purposes, however marijuana can't feed people and keep people alive. If all the plants and seeds in the world outside the vault is destroyed, no one is going to be concerned over whether marijuana seeds are safe there are far greater worries.
@@-Offstar Counter point, those "drug" plants are still agriculture and add to the biodiversity. Not all agricultural crops are food. There is clearly plenty of room for more seeds so why not store those plants?
They should allow genetically modified seeds, that are modified to make plants survive better in different climates, that way if the earth dramatically shifts in climate we'll still be ok and all the seeds wont be useless
Same here! Also, this story remind me of the story about the siege of Leningrad. A group of Russian botanists were in a secret vault and barricaded themselves against German soldiers and just as much starving citizens. They starved to death rather than consume the, at the time, greatest collection of seeds they were guarding. This is less dramatic of course, but to me just as noble.
well the main thing about the cost is that svalbard is a converted coal mine. meaning the tunnels and exc.. was already there. they just found a new way in how to use it.
So I checked those Canadian numbers and according to database they store the wheat and barley in majority, then some corn, beans, and grass based on institution number of CAN004. however those particular box numbers are not in database, they were either withdrawn meanwhile in last two years, or the woman is not telling us the whole story what is stored there :-D
Reaperz zz technically all of the seeds are genetically modified. GMOs are not just some crazy science combined things, like a jellyfish cat or whatever, but also things that have been cross bred and selectively bred. So even thousands of years ago when we started growing things and planting the ones that tasted best, we were genetically modifying plants! I think she meant something like a carrot potato mix, something really made in a lab.
Let's hope that the seed vault can withstand a global nuclear war, and let's also hope that we won't ever have to make any more withdrawals from the vault.
They really should take in all the GMO seeds they can. In a post apocalyptic scenario you'd really much rather have the potato's that grow the biggest and fastest.
@@cartermanjohn7702 yeah we do. The effects are that they're larger, more nutritious and more resistant to disease. That's all genetically modified means. The strawberries you buy in the store are massive versions of their natural counterparts.
I think it’s because this vault isnt intended for helping people survive the apocalypse, but to rebuild when things get better, and get earth’s biodiversity back up to what it was before
Agreed. If they're going to invest in a biodiversity preserve like this, why would they not preserve even the most dangerous or poisonous plants? Not saying that cannabis is either, of course, but it seems contrary to the vault's purpose to only allow certain plants.
YAY! Finally, someone noticed NORWAY! Our wonderful country finally gets a bit of recognition! This, has never been achieved by manki... Norwegiankind...
@@_c_y_p_3 They prob got another secret back room with peyote seeds, weed, some room where spores lives so they can get mushrooms. The future doesn't have to be boring. I won't know but message to the future people when I die. Have fun if you find this thread! Smoke a fat one!
Only 4.4 million views in years on an honest and sincere knowledge based video! - All misinformation, hate and propaganda video from other channels are standing 10million plus with in a month or 2. Yup we need this vault more than ever.
The difference is that selective breeding follows pretty much the same rules of standard evolution. Genemodded seeds don't follow that rule, and since we don't have a guaranteed understanding of what would happen with those genemodded seeds in perpetuity, we can't accurately predict what changes we would make that have later impacts on the seeds. Of course there's decisions we make that might lead to a cascading failure state if we simply selectively bred something to a desired state until it degenerated to a point of nonfunctionality= See dogs, for example, and their current purebreds that have a high likelihood of health problems, such as the large dogs with hip and spine issues. But, all in all, since the seeds that have been behaviorally trained in certain environments to succeed in those environments follow the standard evolutionary paths, they have genetic drift in each seed. That's not necessarily the case for gene-modded seeds. Because of that, the amount of variance becomes much more predictable, but we haven't actually put the time in to determine the predictability of those seeds to degeneration. Going back to the dog example, if you have a few purebred dogs that breeed with each other over a couple generations, it doesn't matter that they're purebred, they'll eventually become a mnutt, that doesn't have the same health problems that consistently plague the purebreds. Maybe the mutt will have one, but it isn't likely to have *all* of them, and continued free access to the gene pool will lead that mutts offspring to select for the positive traits on average. Plants work the same way.
@@Dracomandriuthus "The difference is that selective breeding follows pretty much the same rules of standard evolution." I dare to contradict. What we've done to the banana for instance as far from evolutionary beneficial for the plant as it can possibly get. Without constant maintenance, the whole species would vanish within less than a decade. And the same could be said about many of our crops. Just because the method is different doesn't mean you can't get similar Frankenstein results via selective breeding. And on the contrary, gene modification does not necessarily result in unpredictable outcome.
@@lonestarr1490 I'm not saying that it follows the same process of selecting for the best success, I'm saying that bred plants have genetic drift and genetic variance.
Bente: "No genetically modified material goes in here." Me: Does that mean they have the disgusting green short bananas with giant seeds and the small watermelons with no red part?
Regardless they still couldn’t accept those bananas and melons because they reproduce through cutting and grafting. As it name suggests, the Vault only collects seeds.
Artificial selection is apparently okay. GMO is one of the few things I've never understood the raid against. I mean, apart from seedless seed monopolies and illegal stuff.
@@Eshwald I'm sorry, can you clarify what you're speaking to? Artificial selection or seedless seeds? Avoiding artificial selection would mean that you could only grow seeds of plants as they were before human agriculture existed (i.e. ~12,000 years ago). Plants with poor yield, size, taste, nutrition and resilience. And I've never heard bans of GMOs accept certain modifications before.
I've done some exploring, and here's what I've found are in various seed boxes for various countries. Canada: Oats, Barley, Wheat, North Korea: Rice, Corn, Grass Taiwan: Sorghum, Kale I could probably do more, but I've already been at it for several hours... it's hard to search on the database... They may not all be 100% accurate, but maybe at least close.
A horrible mistake. Morning Glory, Peyote, Mimosa Hostilis, Datura, Psilocybin and Ergot spores and lots of other plants or fungi containing psychedelics should be conserved and protected. I guess humans have still a long way to go before they understand the incredible potential psychedelics have, both medically and spiritually.
@@Albanez39 you're absolutely right. I haven't used any sort of drug besides alcohol in 10 years because of my job, but they are making a huge mistake in excluding them. so, so many benefits to mankind. I can just imagine the world trying to rebuild itself and someone saying, "and of course these dumb fucks left out the most important seeds, now what"
3:25 no weed? Among the species of plant preserved in the vault are around 21,500 seeds belonging to the cannabis genus, donated in 2014. The seeds were provided by Alchimia, a Spanish seed bank. I guess she's right when she said they don't look in the boxes...
do a video about vavilov please. He was the first guy to realize how important plant genetics were and he went to the origins to collect the ancestors of our modern crops. its an amazing story.
+Ryvucz - Trust is a good thing. We could use more of it. +Immolation Angel - Box 4 is listed as containing corn and rice. I didn't look up the others.
***** Lol, my dad used to work for the company that poured the concrete for the Superdome's foundation. I asked him if, as legend has it, Jimmy Hoffa is buried under the end zone. He told me he isn't allowed to talk about that.
+Michael Hope $9 million is such a small amount I almost think he misspoke. If that was built by the American government, we would have spent tens if not hundreds of millions for sure. That's crazy cheap if the figure is actually correct.
+Michael Hope Did you ever hear how much it costs to build for example a school? A few years ago they built a new school for ~1000 students in my town and it costed about 36 million euros... so that 7.6 mio € (or 9 mio $) really isn't much!
+Michael Hope I'm not too knowledgeable about vaults but I've been on tours of data centers and most of those structures are just as big as this vault and cost around that number as well. So structurally it doesn't seem to cost much to build but no doubt the maintenance and security of that place should cost several millions a year.
Wonder if they've made a vault that stores the genomes of every animal species on the planet, with the rate of extinction occurring now and the possibility that maybe we can bring them back in the future. Jurassic Park confirmed?
Every animal? Expensive and pointless. How about the unique ones that have special qualities not in many animals? And why would we want to make them not extinct? Clearly their species wasn't fit to survive if they all died off.
The seed bank had a slight water issue due to rising temperatures. Some water flooded into the main entrance, but froze a few meters inside, no seeds were harmed. Renovations were made and completed in 2019 to prevent further water seepage, but how long until this happens again? The ice is melting faster than engineers planned when they designed the seed vault.
They didn’t forbid narcotic seeds just drugs, so strains grown explicitly for recreational drug use are a no no. I would assume that industrial hemp and medicinal plants that have narcotic effects are ok whereas marijuana strains would not.
@@Abysalss The medical effects of cannabis come mostly from two main cannabinoids: THC and CBD. The former is also the main intoxicating ingredient in cannabis. To try to separate "marijuana" and medical cannabis is just silly: the only real difference is that medical strains a kept as homogenous as possible to ensure the quality. Same goes for many of the painkillers. You go to a hospital in pain, you most likely get something that has been made from opium poppy. I can just march into a pharmacy right now to get self-care cough syrup that contains codeine.
Antti Laine I wasn’t even talking about medical canabis, I was talking about hemp which has a variety of uses and intentionally low to almost non existent levels of THC.
@Heads Mess "start everything all over again in a few million years." Let me be clear, in a scenario where the human spieces is erased from the face of the earth, or few surivive, it is unlikely that we there will be another comparable civilization ever on earth again. At this point we have altered earths atomsphere, soil and oceans so much, that we have to get it right this time. There's no way a primal culture could build itself up again after the damage we have done. There will be no second chances from this point out.
Rather curious about the cannabis seed ban. Yea, it /can/ be used as a recreational drug, but that is far from it's only use, in fact the point could be argued that just the non-drug related aspects of the plant could outweigh a huge percentage of the usefulness of other seeds stored there.
+Mexie Mex Norway is pretty conservative about anything you can use to get "inebriated" in some fashion. Hell, I'm not that old and I remember having to go to special shops just to get beer, never mind getting anything stronger than that.
ColtaineCrows I am aware of that, but there is a difference between being conservative, and potentially causing huge problems just to be conservative ;^>
lol like they explained, it's like a bank vault, so it shouldn't matter if they know what's in it or not. Their job is only to return it to the depositor. If the depositor didn't label the seeds or keep records... well that was pretty dumb of them!
The no drugs policy is absurd. All plants are important and deserve preservation. Also, the difference between recreational drugs and medical drugs is often very blurry, as many plants can be used both ways.
The Gros Michel never went extinct, it was just replaced by the Cavendish as the primary banana crop in the 1950's due to being more disease resistant. The Gros Michel is still cultivated and is making somewhat of a comeback due to advances in disease eradication.
Kobi iboK - Just to clarify: You do realise the natural banana is so full of seeds it's hard to eat right? The Cavendish and Gros Michel varieties that we eat in the modern age are called clones or hybrids, so the store bought bananas do not have 'reproductive' seeds. They still have tiny microscopic seeds, they are just impotent when it comes to reproduction. Thus, every banana you have ever eaten, was the same banana... How's that for a mind blowing fact?
yes I actually did a research paper on that and the farmed banana is full of many seeds but they are small as the farmed plant has evolved to not need seeds. And yes wild bananas are full of seeds, big ones too
Without matinence im sure they will continue to fix any problems over the years. Plus 200 years is a long time. Thats the U.S. was still just a baby and electricity wouldnt be used for another 100 years
+Jubach That's just what the engineers have guaranteed. But given that most engineers plan for 2x - 3x redundancy I would expect it to last 400-600 years in reality.
Seriously it's so stupid to not keep genetically modified seeds, they are improved and offer enriched food, something we really need in a more and more populated world.
It amazes me that many countries of the world can get along to build somthing for when doomsday comes. But cant do that same thing to help prevent a possible doomsday.
They did not have to get along to build it. The Norwegians built it and the others are just using it. It required no cooperation between nations to build.
It amazes me that we are building these stupid things for some stupid doomsday, rather than promote biodiversity, and plant all those seeds all over the planet, so they thrive, the plants are pollinated, they feed people and animals. It amazes me that THEY promote to the mass GMO as the way to go forward, as a perfectly safe equivalent of the original plant, yet they have a strict non-GMO seeds for the vaults. What's their plan ? How good are these seeds if a doomsday catastrophe occurs ? All soils would be fucked, so where do they plan to grow these millions of seeds ? Plus we may then not have the qualified people to grow these seeds, we may not have the right environment (no more bees) to pollinate these plants. I feel all this energy and all these $$$ would be better spent on promoting bio-diversity in the real life. Or did I miss the point of these vaults ?
@@johnsmith-ro2tw they aren't just throwing every seed in there they are just throwing a lot of each kind because if something did happen those plants we grew would be for nothing
@@johnsmith-ro2tw you are on point and perfectly side with you.....all these are conspiracy.... They have intended to control the Wold's food by destroying the natural lands with chemicals(chemical fertilizers) after which the vulnerable nations would not get natural seeds to grow any longer.... Hence their dominance with human food,but thank God that nature is fair and we shall all die no matter what.....but I cry for generations to come! Please I want you to be my friend
They let you film in here but not walmart?!??😑
Walmart is overrated
That's land of the free for you.
Well, after all, it's run by Scandinavians
I live in Norway (we own Svalbard) and we don’t even allow Walmart to have stores here, because they won’t tell us where they get the stuff they get their stuff. Just a fun fact.
@@moopy6344 Well... Props to you guys!
Walmart has always been hella suspicious to me.... Almost like they're a black-market operation.
You visit the coolest places
yeah very cooool
+DigitalNinja pun intended?
investing
+Lorenzo Stroe lol
+DigitalNinja #pun
It’s reassuring to see every nation on earth having vested interest in preserving this vault. I hope that because everyone has skin in the game, even in a worst case scenario, thousands of years of agricultural advancement made by billions of people throughout the history of mankind would survive.
She's said no gene altered crops. All of our crops are gene altered. They aren't storing our progress, they are storing what the earth offers naturally. They should have an area for genetically enhanced crops- our progress, and also the main components to many different drugs.
@@thatguy6214 I agree. I suspect Monsanto could possibly be preventing nations from keeping genetically-altered crops the same way that they prevent farmers from holding onto their own seeds.
Yes, only for the fact that what we have done is agricultural retrogression. (To a large part. I know there are some advances in there too. I don't wanna trigger you guys working in agronomy).
Yeah. But, its worth noting that Longyearbyen was bombed and occupied by the nazis in WW2. The seed vault is part of mine no. 3. That's an abandoned coal mine. Some of these mines run straight through the mountains so that's why there was some bombs flying back in the day. Did I mention that Russia also have their own city up there, and have been muttering about not enjoying the Norwegian supremacy of Svalbard for the last 100 years?
What I'm saying is: we all agree to the seed vault being a great thing until one day there's some trigger happy ding dogs who decide they want to strike this or that place. Buuut the seed vault is far far into the mountain, so likely to survive A LOT.
And Svalbard is such a beautiful place. I've lived up there. So so nice
In case anyone was remotly curios. the two boxes from Canada shown, the one first looked at and the one the Bente had her hand on, are from Plant Gene Resources of Canada. They contained Hordeum Vulgare(Barley) and Glycine Max (Soy bean plant).
Thank you! I was curious what crops we'd sent.
I searched also lol
I REALLY enjoyed this video. SO simple, yet so awesome. I felt like I got to go somewhere I've always wanted to go!
Love your work Destin!
+SmarterEveryDay thanks Destin! And next time I'm in a helicopter I hope you're with me
+Sam Watson What a waste, kids in Africa could have eaten those seeds.
What a waste! Kids in Africa could've eaten those vaults... And ice
+Square Physics i see your parents saw you're smart and your parents are using you for it... Sad
imagine being one of the last person on earth and you finally went there to restart civilization but the doors are locked.
id cry
there is no "locked doors" if noone stops you.
it's only matter of time to open it with angle grinder.
@@nameeman207 don't you need electricity for that ?
"it's ok bro I heard there's no weed in there anyway"
@@roshantr2557 Other options are Guns, and TNT. Or you can ram a truck into the door.
Even North Korea agreed to be part of it. That's awesome.
probably because they're planning on starting the apocalypse lmao.
Arcarsenal 😂
Arcarsenal lol
Pretty sure some of their nukes lie there.
Norway make peace to the world ;)
As a science fiction lover and someone who has studied dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction extensively, I can’t help but feel like this vault is a no-brainer. Sure, a scenario in which it might become necessary for human survival AND is accessed by people who would use the seeds for good purposes isn’t even all that likely, but it’s no overstatement that agriculture is what made human civilization possible in the first place. For the most part, we take that for granted way too much.
The box at 4:57 with the label "2C0132" contains _avena sativa_ , or the common oat.
The more you know...
+Joshua Tang The more you grow.
+Joshua Tang How'd you find that? Link?
+Joshua Tang ...the more you Kohl's?
+Joshua Tang the more you can explain things to educate people correctly.
Joshua Tang CAN 004 + jan008-33 has common barley, not common oats.
You know it's cold when a Canadian says it's cold.
I think the ruskies have us beat when it comes to dealing with the cold. We run around on skidoos while they build nuclear stations at -40.
Yup i live in Canada a American will say its cold when its 5 degrees i wear a t shirt in that weather
Oh hey
@@YoungNHungryM that's very cold
Less Canadians know cold temperatures than Americans do.
"No drugs are stored here"
What do you think Netherland sent there ?
The Netherlands sent nether warts xdxdxd
@@ramim7256 uhm... no.
Chris aka Schulbus r/wooooosh
@@qu2409 how does that even make sense with my comment? i know it's a joke so how exactly flew it over my head?
also: did you come up with that?
@@w_ldan "stfu" don't cut yourself on that edge :D
Places like this are needed, and I'm glad places like this are around the world.
There are several (7 I think)
@@yourmom2262 There's way more actually! I work in a seed bank and we collaborate with many countries. Most countries have their own seed banks (though most are relatively small and only store a maximum of maybe a few hundred collections). (He actually mentions in the video there's about 1700 seed banks around the world!)
@@yourmom2262 thats relieving as by the beginning of video I wasn't sure wheter this is the only seed bank, but several is great idea
all these seeds and i still cant downlaod torrent
lol
Hahahaha
Why are you down here
relevance?
+KingBrave Super You need "seeds" to download torrents from.
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Hopefully no radroaches!
@@retrofordboy Too cold for that. Just have to watch out for sentient polar bears
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There’s absolutely no way they don’t have hemp in the seed vault, it’s legitimately one of the most useful crops you could have
Sounds like they have no idea what they have in there but if they’re smart they’ll have marijuana and hemp and all the other drugs as well. That’s just stupid to assume we won’t need those compounds.
Canabis will survive any apocalypse anyways... it existed before mankind and will last long after mankind
There's a new study out claiming hemp can prevent Covid from entering cells. I'm skeptical, but if it's true it would bolster the case for storing seeds of it.
@@lingtwist974 now that I think about it, I can’t really recall if any of my daily smoker friends have gotten covid.
@@lingtwist974 It maybe just smoking... studies have shown smokers resist covid more..
"People want to put their personal seeds in here"
My immature brain: Hehe personal seeds.
Engineer: "We've had men wanting to put their gene material in here"
.......
Yeah i was like lmao personal seeds, are they what i think they are? Then i see the next line and im like ok wtf
That made me laugh way harder than i should have 😂😂😂
they should have bought dinner first
So when Scandinavians say personal seeds, they don't mean what we think they are 😂. Innocent lads 🤣
@@sais8681 they must have a small freezer
right?
or they traveled all the way there and whip out their meat scepter
That is really cool place to go to.
+LlamaFluff ohhhh i get it XD
+LlamaFluff Fun fact: Tiss means pee or penis in Norwegian. Svalbard is Norwegian.
Do they have any frozen bees there? Because if not it might just be a big room full of ancient seeds when it comes time for it to be useful.
+Jacob Drum This is so damn true.
Some plants grow without Bees you know.
+Jacob Drum But the bees would....
ya know......
die.
While on the surface this comment seemed to be intended partially as a joke, you raise an important point. Pollinators play a huge role in agriculture and we need to protect them. However, it would be much more difficult to make a vault to back up the species of animals that pollinate because it's not easy to create living organisms from DNA. Also if a whole species died and we brought it back using stored DNA, there's a chance that the species would not have some of the behaviors that it has before it died off, because some behaviors are learned from other members of the species and there would be no extant members to teach the new members how to act. Also, some insect colonies have hierarchies that might be difficult to recreate and make viable again.
Long story short, our best chance of protecting pollinators is when they are alive. We need to learn about the ways they function in their ecosystems and make sure that we protect the things that keep them alive.
Totally agree, Jacob. CCD is a serious thing!
It's pretty sobering to hear that Syria have had no choice but to withdraw some of their seeds to replant already :(
+Minotaur1975 Hopefully they'll set aside some seeds from future generations of crops to return to the seed vault.
+Minotaur1975 thats why north korea also deposit their seed there. if korean peninsula war happen again, they have a backup
that
a country in syria's state is sadly common.what's new is that they had a bank to use instead of just suffering without.
it'd an idea you normally go, why sent
aren't we doing this...except we have, and it's awesome
+Eko ari wibowo I know this is a serious comment thread an all but phrasing is key.. "n Korea deposits their seed inside..."
+Eko ari wibowo I know this is a serious comment thread an all but phrasing is key.. "n Korea deposits their seed inside..."
I'm glad everyone is united on preserving seeds
Hey, he's used to -18 degrees Celsius...
He's from Canada
Big Big he said he was from Canada
Im used to -40°C. Greetings from Finland
@@NeonNion vittu ei meillä oo millonkaa -40. harvoin ees -30...
Big Big I’m from Texas.. so.. anything below 40, 50 or below, people are complaining that it’s freezing.
This place is so crucial
Yes.
ok
shutup
Ok seed's simp
you again😂
$9 million dollars to insure the world's crops is worth every penny.
Cheaper than 1 month military budget
Cheaper than the US military budget
It's literraly cheaper than 15 minutes of the US military budget
us is doing pretty good though ;) better than the rest of you whiners
@@sefk9003 I rolled my eyes so hard with your comment I could see my frontal lobe
"You know how I can tell its -18°?"
I grew up in the northeast us, and got a big smile when he said that because I knew what was next. It doesnt get that way too often here in the winter anymore, but when it does and I'm with someone who's not from here, it's pretty funny when they're caught off guard by it.
If they don't know what's in the boxes, then there's definitely weed.
If not, I don't want to live after doomsday.
You can make pretty cool chemicals with cannabis
No,not that kind of chemicals
Can't be, the owners have signed a contract. 🤪
@@kathyabel5338 mr. nice, the famous cannabis-lord also signed a lot of contracts... i don't see that much of a difference between what he could do with a box that's going on a plane and what someone today could do with the seed vault. "those aren't coca seeds, see here on the contract it's clearly apple-tree"
I guess I'll keep my weed seeds in my freezer since they dont want too
Jorge Bibiano actually there’s no such thing as “weed seeds” I think your referring to hemp seeds?
@@Bamiyanbigasf bro stfu
@@Bamiyanbigasf weed seeds are definitely real
@SUPRA or salvia divinorum
SUPRA
Cannabis*
" no genetically modified seeds"
sooo no seedless bananas?
Rip
Most of the world's crops aren't in that vault either.
+Andrew Harper 'Seedless bananas' aren't really seedless. They're hybrids and have very small seeds.
Hybrids are different from GMO's. It sure would be nice to learn that the bananas have been saved. Along with chocolate and coffee, probably one of the most popular foods on the planet.
+Andrew Harper or golden rice which I thought was supposed to be great
+Andrew Harper "seedless bananas", in a seed vault. lol
I'm imagining some kind of epic post-apocalyptic adventure story of people finding and busting into the seed vault to bring back food seeds to a ravaged world.
Yeah, this is definitely gonna be some legendary rumored vault in a world ravaged by nuclear war
This is actually a thing in the second season of the Netflix show ‘into the night’
And if you didn’t know. The main guy behind these dopop shot Mr bill gates own a nice piece of that facility and he also own majority of all farm crops in America. I wonder what he is up to. Hmmm
I suggest you watch into the night season 2 on Netflix!!! I think they did it well!
And then there aren't any seeds because people have been actually depositing other things and lying all the time
Welcome to Black Mesa East.
Asentrix k
+The Hoax Hotel More like Black Mesa North.
+The Hoax Hotel I was thinking fallout for some reason XD
Half life 3 confirmed
+darkless60 I wish, HL3 is a joke at this point.
The new Fallout DLC looks so realistic
@CraZy You predicted all the disaters long before it happened....
Wow, it costs more to buy a small private jet than to build the seed vault. And people are questioning the cost?
Nuclear winter
Just so u know i live in norway and theres actualy mqnny problems whit the vault first the cylinder steel enterence is crumbling bc moving dirt it leaks inn watter bc they had like under a year tp build it so they dident plan it right
It looks like the gta bunker
This feels like something that you would find as an abandoned structure in Fallout or something
+NecroticGolem I hope modders will add this as a mod.
7 years later.....I watched that documentary "Seed". Really good. Such a vital, noble thing to do.
A 6 years old worst nightmare.
*a vault full of vegetables*
YAAAAAAAAAS
If doomsday happen at least our plants seeds are safe, lol, nothing is safe. Just look at a few of 'What If' channel videos and you'll understand..
Hyde Deme my comment was a joke, I understand the entire concept because I watched the video lol. r/wooosh
@@noodleoflake965 I just comment out of context actually ^^
Hyde Deme but your comment had nothing related to my comment, or what your saying is that you wanted for me to post it there.
Veritasium and vsauce are the best channels on RUclips. Thanks for letting people learn
CGP Grey as well.
+PapaKay Don't forget smarter every day :D
+PapaKay And smarter every day :)
akcodwolf1 personally i cant stand smarter every day. something about destin is borderline rude. the engineers who help him out are constantly interrupted by him making jokes and it seems like he always wants to show that he is a "science nerd" and a good father. My personal opinion. i still think its great how hes making millions of people learn though
Don't forget sci show, crash course, it's okay to be smart, the brain scoop, and minute physics
Imagine after dooms day all those seeds without the bees!!!
TrippleZ3D you got the point..
well North Korea will be fine, their people are so used to doing stupid menial tasks that being told to be human bees & hand pollinate everything will just be treated as a normal day lol
seriously though, it would be a problem, but there are options like hand pollination & bees aren't the only pollinator & presumably any government depositing seeds has thought of this & has deposited seeds with a mix of pollination methods & those that don't need pollination to produce food
we all will have to pollinate by hand!! slaves to plants we will have to be!
Freeze them bees then
We don't need the bees that much, there are hundreds of thousands other species that pollinate the Earth.
Excellent information! Before hybrid seeds became available in the early 1930's, farmers grew a wide verity of seed crops that were hardy and thrived on their land. There were hundreds of varieties of corn and beans. After plants were bred for uniformity to allow for mechanical harvesting, many plant varieties were lost forever. Had it not been for farm and gardening families who kept growing the heirloom seed and later the Seed Savers Exchange, our farm crops family tree today would look like a telephone pole. To better see understand the urgent need for banking plant genetics. By growing a national crop that has the same genetics, you have the making of the Great Irish Potato Famine of 1845. ~ Thank you for making people more aware of the value of preserving our food plants genetic treasures for the Future.
Interesting point. I have no idea about agriculture, so thanks for sharing this little piece of information! =)
Are the seeds that Svalbard keeps heirloom or not??
I'm from Canada so this vault just looks like my garage.
the koreans were storing corn and rice
according to the website
that's not true, I just checked
Cold then what is it then 😑
@@xsogon8473 I was thinking about making a list. But I have exams tomorrow lol
il make it some other time
@Jacob Acunia That would visually look horrible because its writen down in a datase with sql. And on top of that they use sciantific names like "sinapis alba".
@@niklas7355 sounds like your a coward
No genetically modified seeds? So basically they could only store non-cultivated plant-seeds?
+MKzer0 I take your point but I'm sure they are permitting the old fashioned form of genetically modified seeds
+Veritasium since they don't store drug plants there where to they store medicinal drug plants or poisonous plants that is useful?
+WhatSyndrome Trust me they do, really think someone haven't sneaked some weed in those crates? And they said they can't check the boxes.
+Xeno Your wrong. Legalization has support on both ends of the political spectrum. Seriously why does everything have to be conservative vs liberal, parties can agree on stuff you know.
+WhatSyndrome food crops!! Food is way more important !!
Holy cow this was referenced in a tv show I just watched and They did a really good job recreating this! It's called Into the Night. I don't know why I assumed that the show wouldn't go for realism but I'd never seen inside it before, only read about this place. Very cool!
Actually, assuming that Hollywood didn't portray something realistically is usually the safer bet.
If they really cared about the biodiversity and future, wouldn't even the "illicit" plants matter considering they might/ do have medical or scientific purposes.
They're really hurting their own cause for some "this natural plant is bad bc I say so" argument.
There are epilepsy cases were marijuana derived medicines are the only thing that can give them a qaulity of life. The people saying marijuana can't be stored there, are saying those epilepsy patients don't deserve to be seizure free because some random dude might like smoking it.
I would think so. There are a lot of medically useful drugs that have no recreational application; the world would be hurting if we lost some of those.
The goal of the Svalbard seed vault is to contain the seeds used for agricultural biodiversity. The plants stored are all the plants that make up what is used in every day food. Which is why plants like marijuana aren't stored yes there are cases where marijuana can be used for medical purposes, however marijuana can't feed people and keep people alive. If all the plants and seeds in the world outside the vault is destroyed, no one is going to be concerned over whether marijuana seeds are safe there are far greater worries.
@@-Offstar Counter point, those "drug" plants are still agriculture and add to the biodiversity. Not all agricultural crops are food. There is clearly plenty of room for more seeds so why not store those plants?
Calm down pot heads.
There are 1700 other seed vaults in the world. Plenty of illicit seeds and spores will be saved.
Knowing Canada...
We've stored pancake mix and maple syrup
Moose seeds
And weed seeds
At -18?
god i hope so...
i mean, its april and still snowing, why need a vault when you got a meter of snow?
They should allow genetically modified seeds, that are modified to make plants survive better in different climates, that way if the earth dramatically shifts in climate we'll still be ok and all the seeds wont be useless
Genetic modification can go wrong and for a place like this a problem in the seeds could ruin a heck of a lot
GMOs are not that good in our health
@@vinceajpanganiban7742
That's not true at all.
IKR not accepting GMOs is the dumbest thing ever
@@anfi7447 Most of the vegetables and fruit you eat have been genetically modified.
How did I miss this episode. I'm from Norway and I've been a long-time subscriber of V. Pleasure seeing it now at least! :D
Same here! Also, this story remind me of the story about the siege of Leningrad. A group of Russian botanists were in a secret vault and barricaded themselves against German soldiers and just as much starving citizens. They starved to death rather than consume the, at the time, greatest collection of seeds they were guarding. This is less dramatic of course, but to me just as noble.
Wow, it costs more to buy a small private jet than to build the seed vault. And people are questioning the cost?
People should question the cost of a $50M small rural high school.
Well yeah... this place can survive doomsday
9 million is a lot of money for the average joe
well the main thing about the cost is that svalbard is a converted coal mine. meaning the tunnels and exc.. was already there. they just found a new way in how to use it.
@@onespiker Oh that makes a lot of sense
So I checked those Canadian numbers and according to database they store the wheat and barley in majority, then some corn, beans, and grass based on institution number of CAN004. however those particular box numbers are not in database, they were either withdrawn meanwhile in last two years, or the woman is not telling us the whole story what is stored there :-D
We were just testing to see what effects the vault would have on maple syrup. Shhhh
Wait so it’s not maple seeds?
Why store the seeds when you can have the real thing?
Bro u just made this all up.
Corn is genetically modified :/
Reaperz zz technically all of the seeds are genetically modified. GMOs are not just some crazy science combined things, like a jellyfish cat or whatever, but also things that have been cross bred and selectively bred. So even thousands of years ago when we started growing things and planting the ones that tasted best, we were genetically modifying plants! I think she meant something like a carrot potato mix, something really made in a lab.
Let's hope that the seed vault can withstand a global nuclear war, and let's also hope that we won't ever have to make any more withdrawals from the vault.
It's in a mountain in the middle of nowhere. I think the seeds are safe.
You're too stupid to be watching this video.
f a l l o u t :D
+AGrayPhantom It could be targeted.
+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky I guarente there will be future withdrawals from the vault.
They really should take in all the GMO seeds they can. In a post apocalyptic scenario you'd really much rather have the potato's that grow the biggest and fastest.
Yeah honestly when they said they wouldn’t take gmos I thought that really didn’t make sense
well they're not allowed to know whats inside....
But you don’t the effects of those potatoes, we really don’t know the effects of any of these genetically modified crops
@@cartermanjohn7702 yeah we do. The effects are that they're larger, more nutritious and more resistant to disease. That's all genetically modified means. The strawberries you buy in the store are massive versions of their natural counterparts.
I think it’s because this vault isnt intended for helping people survive the apocalypse, but to rebuild when things get better, and get earth’s biodiversity back up to what it was before
I'm not a marijuana user but I think it's a bit stupid not to keep the seeds of the plant in there as well, even if it can be used as a drug
they must have it but don't say
they do now
Agreed. If they're going to invest in a biodiversity preserve like this, why would they not preserve even the most dangerous or poisonous plants? Not saying that cannabis is either, of course, but it seems contrary to the vault's purpose to only allow certain plants.
Forget marijuana as a drug... hemp is such a versatile plant it seems ridiculous that it isn't allowed to be kept here
Opium poppy and cannabis seed are some of the most important seeds to preserve.
YAY! Finally, someone noticed NORWAY! Our wonderful country finally gets a bit of recognition! This, has never been achieved by manki... Norwegiankind...
and it will be forgotten
+Jaevonify now this, THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL DISRESPECT! Racist!
Gustav Endresen Honey, I know about racism so don't pull that card
+Jaevonify well, seems like you don't know about jokes.
Gustav Endresen sure don't
Somebody intelligent realized most of humanity isn't going to make it so they made an emergency "start all over" plan.
Honestly? It sounds A LOT like Horizon: Zero Dawn. Except without the rogue robots that feed on bio-matter as fuel.
They can't be that intelligent if they have no medicinal plant seeds in there...
@@_c_y_p_3 They prob got another secret back room with peyote seeds, weed, some room where spores lives so they can get mushrooms. The future doesn't have to be boring. I won't know but message to the future people when I die. Have fun if you find this thread! Smoke a fat one!
@Flatearth Granny Jesus Christ, are you ok m8
not only humanity, most of life on earth...
Only 4.4 million views in years on an honest and sincere knowledge based video! - All misinformation, hate and propaganda video from other channels are standing 10million plus with in a month or 2.
Yup we need this vault more than ever.
Very interesting and educational. Glad to know some of our plants are safe due to this facility. Kuddos to Svalbard!
Now that Futurama episode makes perfect sense.
The Futurama Holiday Spectacular
Yes.
the one with the germs mixing with the seeds and the world blows up at the end?
Ethay
Yep.
MOTO 809 I came from that futrama episode just now!
I wonder if anyone stores spores instead of seeds? Fungus needs love, too.
For real that is a necessity these days!
never
Good thinking, plants can't survive without the correct fungus on the soil. Not to mention bees and other polinizers.
Well I guess it depends on the contract if spores are included in it, since they're technically not seeds. Tbh they should be.
Shrooms ha?
"We cannot open the seed boxes." She says, standing over an open seed box.
She didn’t seem like she knew what she was talking about. She gave him a lot of “I don’t know” replies.
@@timcollum5015 you do have a point!
Pretty sure she was talking about the packets not the boxes.
They most likely have a "demo" box for visitors. Think.
English is not her primary language either
I'm waiting for the North Koreans to write to them now to ask their boxes to be moved to another shelf...
Lmao
or another deposit?
+Toby Port Pretty sure they won't be watching youtube there to find out lol
Maybe USA does it first.
bassl0va well, they do have a RUclips channel
Probably the most important fridge/vault in the world, -18°C, uses cardboard boxes...
Raphael Loh that’s what Canada sent them in as stated there all stored in containers from the host country
recyclable
Doesnt matter why put a seed vault all the way out there so nobody can reach it when there is a global disaster
also it's too close to coast , let's hope it has multiple entrances
like its military...
No offense but....
canadian ground military still uses 1960s era such as C7A1-C7A9 (canadian moded M16A1)
you visit such cool places, would love to visit them myself at one point
Hehe, 'cool'
+be_cracked -__________________________-
+be_cracked I dont think it was on purpose lol
maybe it was, maybe it wasnt ;)
"Genetically Modified Crops aren't allowed"
Every single crop that we have selectively bred: Are we a joke to you?
The difference is that selective breeding follows pretty much the same rules of standard evolution. Genemodded seeds don't follow that rule, and since we don't have a guaranteed understanding of what would happen with those genemodded seeds in perpetuity, we can't accurately predict what changes we would make that have later impacts on the seeds. Of course there's decisions we make that might lead to a cascading failure state if we simply selectively bred something to a desired state until it degenerated to a point of nonfunctionality= See dogs, for example, and their current purebreds that have a high likelihood of health problems, such as the large dogs with hip and spine issues.
But, all in all, since the seeds that have been behaviorally trained in certain environments to succeed in those environments follow the standard evolutionary paths, they have genetic drift in each seed. That's not necessarily the case for gene-modded seeds. Because of that, the amount of variance becomes much more predictable, but we haven't actually put the time in to determine the predictability of those seeds to degeneration. Going back to the dog example, if you have a few purebred dogs that breeed with each other over a couple generations, it doesn't matter that they're purebred, they'll eventually become a mnutt, that doesn't have the same health problems that consistently plague the purebreds. Maybe the mutt will have one, but it isn't likely to have *all* of them, and continued free access to the gene pool will lead that mutts offspring to select for the positive traits on average. Plants work the same way.
@@Dracomandriuthus Thanks for the detailed explanation and your time!
@@Dracomandriuthus "The difference is that selective breeding follows pretty much the same rules of standard evolution."
I dare to contradict. What we've done to the banana for instance as far from evolutionary beneficial for the plant as it can possibly get. Without constant maintenance, the whole species would vanish within less than a decade. And the same could be said about many of our crops.
Just because the method is different doesn't mean you can't get similar Frankenstein results via selective breeding. And on the contrary, gene modification does not necessarily result in unpredictable outcome.
@@lonestarr1490 I'm not saying that it follows the same process of selecting for the best success, I'm saying that bred plants have genetic drift and genetic variance.
Theres a difference between GMO and hybrids 👍
Bente: "No genetically modified material goes in here."
Me: Does that mean they have the disgusting green short bananas with giant seeds and the small watermelons with no red part?
Probably not, since those were naturally occurring and not cultivated in agriculture.
Regardless they still couldn’t accept those bananas and melons because they reproduce through cutting and grafting. As it name suggests, the Vault only collects seeds.
Artificial selection is apparently okay. GMO is one of the few things I've never understood the raid against. I mean, apart from seedless seed monopolies and illegal stuff.
@@Muskar2 Pretty sure that is the variety that is banned
@@Eshwald I'm sorry, can you clarify what you're speaking to? Artificial selection or seedless seeds? Avoiding artificial selection would mean that you could only grow seeds of plants as they were before human agriculture existed (i.e. ~12,000 years ago). Plants with poor yield, size, taste, nutrition and resilience. And I've never heard bans of GMOs accept certain modifications before.
I've done some exploring, and here's what I've found are in various seed boxes for various countries.
Canada: Oats, Barley, Wheat,
North Korea: Rice, Corn, Grass
Taiwan: Sorghum, Kale
I could probably do more, but I've already been at it for several hours... it's hard to search on the database... They may not all be 100% accurate, but maybe at least close.
Not storing hemp seeds is a bad idea. Hemp can make a LOT trees are cut down for. Clean, and cheap.
Did they say they don't have hemp? Hemp is not marijuana.....
HëKtik I can assure you there are hemps seeds in there
A horrible mistake. Morning Glory, Peyote, Mimosa Hostilis, Datura, Psilocybin and Ergot spores and lots of other plants or fungi containing psychedelics should be conserved and protected. I guess humans have still a long way to go before they understand the incredible potential psychedelics have, both medically and spiritually.
@@Albanez39 You've been reading too many Walter Bishop books...
@@Albanez39 you're absolutely right. I haven't used any sort of drug besides alcohol in 10 years because of my job, but they are making a huge mistake in excluding them. so, so many benefits to mankind.
I can just imagine the world trying to rebuild itself and someone saying, "and of course these dumb fucks left out the most important seeds, now what"
3:25 no weed? Among the species of plant preserved in the vault are around 21,500 seeds belonging to the cannabis genus, donated in 2014. The seeds were provided by Alchimia, a Spanish seed bank. I guess she's right when she said they don't look in the boxes...
Imagine if every animal and plant is gone and aliens find that building
lukilsn Good idea for a book, I'd read the shiz outta that
lukilsn Plants vs Zombies
Young film makers who are searchers of movie stories, there you go.. @lukilsn just gave u an idea ;) :D
Could be ETs were the ones to recommend building the vault. ETs don't need anything from us unless they eat humans.
Well my weed seeds won't be gone because it's not a plant yet
I bet you those boxes from North Korea has a little bit of Kim Jong Un's ''seed'' in it.
too soon
+juliathefuckedup or maybe too late!
+Amanou A very CUMedic comment
+BarrowsOre CUMon guys this aint funny
*Facepalm
Does that tunnel at 1:05 remind of anyone of OUTLAST?
yeah, like the last part
+Varun Rajput oooooooohhh yes
+Varun Rajput Reminded me more of SCP containment breach... never was a fan of outlast... and no not because i hate how scary it is.
+SamTEG “TheEmeraldGamer” Woodruff Site 19 in SCP CB was kind of inspired by the vault
do a video about vavilov please. He was the first guy to realize how important plant genetics were and he went to the origins to collect the ancestors of our modern crops. its an amazing story.
This place looks like the ending of Outlast.
WarlordRising Yup. They're hiding an old Nazi guy in there.
True XD
thats what i was thinking
I was looking for red barrels and a shadow like poltergeist lol
they also have chris walker and the walrider in there
This is based on a trust system with countries and their contents. Let that sink in for a bit.
+Ryvucz - Trust is a good thing. We could use more of it.
+Immolation Angel - Box 4 is listed as containing corn and rice. I didn't look up the others.
***** Indeed. They trust the Norwegians to keep their deposit safe. If they didn't then they'd use one of the other facilities or build their own.
Nice picture! Mech Warrior ftw!
+Keira Churchill To be fair, if they don't trust in Norway, I don't know who should they trust.
7:34 HOLY SHOT IT'S BIGFOOT!!!!!!!!!! HOW DID HE GET IN!!!?!?!?
Wow that actually made me really emotional! It’s so important!!! Thank you ❤
The other two vaults contain Walt Disney, Ronald Reagan, Steve Jobs, and Michael Jackson. Basically anybody rich enough to be cryogenically preserved.
***** Lol, my dad used to work for the company that poured the concrete for the Superdome's foundation. I asked him if, as legend has it, Jimmy Hoffa is buried under the end zone. He told me he isn't allowed to talk about that.
Don't forget Tupac...
Cryonics costs like $20k.
It's within the budget of normal people, if they save.
Cryonically*
+Grady Klein i want to be cryogentically frozen. cryonically preserved is for losers.
$9 million? That is around 7.8 million euros or £6.2 million. I think that is superb value for money
It isn't much..
+Michael Hope $9 million is such a small amount I almost think he misspoke. If that was built by the American government, we would have spent tens if not hundreds of millions for sure. That's crazy cheap if the figure is actually correct.
i thought i misheard him say 9 million since its soo cheap
+Michael Hope Did you ever hear how much it costs to build for example a school? A few years ago they built a new school for ~1000 students in my town and it costed about 36 million euros... so that 7.6 mio € (or 9 mio $) really isn't much!
+Michael Hope I'm not too knowledgeable about vaults but I've been on tours of data centers and most of those structures are just as big as this vault and cost around that number as well. So structurally it doesn't seem to cost much to build but no doubt the maintenance and security of that place should cost several millions a year.
Wonder if they've made a vault that stores the genomes of every animal species on the planet, with the rate of extinction occurring now and the possibility that maybe we can bring them back in the future. Jurassic Park confirmed?
Wouldn't be a bad idea to try
I think they have on, but it is embryos instead of genomes.
pubmed has a huge store of genes and proteins found in different species
Every animal? Expensive and pointless. How about the unique ones that have special qualities not in many animals? And why would we want to make them not extinct? Clearly their species wasn't fit to survive if they all died off.
well 99.9% of all species that have ever lived in earth have gone extinct, so it's not like extinction is a very rare event
The seed bank had a slight water issue due to rising temperatures. Some water flooded into the main entrance, but froze a few meters inside, no seeds were harmed. Renovations were made and completed in 2019 to prevent further water seepage, but how long until this happens again? The ice is melting faster than engineers planned when they designed the seed vault.
that'd make for one hell of a heist movie
Its like Heat, but its all just a bunch of middle aged white women who love gardening
"Its like Heat, but its all just a bunch of middle aged white women who love gardening" ... you mean... it's like... "cold"? ... shoot me
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 lol fantastic
clapu clapu clapu
You could call it “Garden’s 11”
Or “Gardner’s 11” because that’s also a last name like Ocean
I want this movie now
the way they packaged the seeds tells a bit about the country's personality
this video was very chill
That joke was punny. Sorry I mean funny ;) ;) ;)
+Eric Craig such a cool place
Do countries hold patent to indigenous seeds that are not found anywhere else?
No drug seeds? We better not destroy plantlife on earth. The future needs weed.
No.
+Name Yes. Why not?
+Sio Weed is not good. but hemp is so hemp stays
+Sio I'm not against weed simply because it's a better alternative than other drugs, however we most definitely do not need it in the future.
+Name looks like we have a trump supporter
No drugs and narcotic plants seeds is a very poor decision, we know too little to just leave them at the test of time.
They didn’t forbid narcotic seeds just drugs, so strains grown explicitly for recreational drug use are a no no. I would assume that industrial hemp and medicinal plants that have narcotic effects are ok whereas marijuana strains would not.
@@Abysalss The medical effects of cannabis come mostly from two main cannabinoids: THC and CBD. The former is also the main intoxicating ingredient in cannabis. To try to separate "marijuana" and medical cannabis is just silly: the only real difference is that medical strains a kept as homogenous as possible to ensure the quality.
Same goes for many of the painkillers. You go to a hospital in pain, you most likely get something that has been made from opium poppy. I can just march into a pharmacy right now to get self-care cough syrup that contains codeine.
Antti Laine I wasn’t even talking about medical canabis, I was talking about hemp which has a variety of uses and intentionally low to almost non existent levels of THC.
Yeah thought the same... Plant is Plant, no matter how humans might use them...
@Heads Mess "start everything all over again in a few million years."
Let me be clear, in a scenario where the human spieces is erased from the face of the earth, or few surivive, it is unlikely that we there will be another comparable civilization ever on earth again. At this point we have altered earths atomsphere, soil and oceans so much, that we have to get it right this time. There's no way a primal culture could build itself up again after the damage we have done. There will be no second chances from this point out.
Rather curious about the cannabis seed ban. Yea, it /can/ be used as a recreational drug, but that is far from it's only use, in fact the point could be argued that just the non-drug related aspects of the plant could outweigh a huge percentage of the usefulness of other seeds stored there.
+Mexie Mex Norway is pretty conservative about anything you can use to get "inebriated" in some fashion. Hell, I'm not that old and I remember having to go to special shops just to get beer, never mind getting anything stronger than that.
ColtaineCrows I am aware of that, but there is a difference between being conservative, and potentially causing huge problems just to be conservative ;^>
They do in fact have some 20000+ cannabis seeds in the vault, most likely industrial hemp.
I'm pretty sure the jamaicans have some "useful" boxes in there. ; )
+Mexie Mex I think the Seed Vault is most interested in domesticated food crops only, and none with modern genetic modifications.
Hats off to the guy who asked if he could deposit his “seed” in the vault
norwenglish
+nuee i know it's so fun to hear it :)
+nuee I can tell that she's from either Nordland or Troms, based on the cadence of her speech.
+nuee makes me cringe lol, and I am norwegian xD
Andreas Dalhaug It could be worse; she could have been from the south-eastern part of Norway.
+Nillie That's very true.
design massive seed vault to withstand any apocalyptic scenario, require online databases to figure out which seeds are which.
..genius
lol its just to keep things transparent so people can see what their government is storing
They probably have an offline registry or on the seed pouch it's written the name
They have an offline database too
dude, thats just the outside. If u open it u will find many small packeges that are all labeled
lol like they explained, it's like a bank vault, so it shouldn't matter if they know what's in it or not. Their job is only to return it to the depositor. If the depositor didn't label the seeds or keep records... well that was pretty dumb of them!
7:17 His reaction to "it has been bombed" 😂😂😂😂
typical Syria smh
Derek: :0
The no drugs policy is absurd. All plants are important and deserve preservation. Also, the difference between recreational drugs and medical drugs is often very blurry, as many plants can be used both ways.
I always want to see the inside of this building, thankyou!
yeah same. apparently it was one of the places you cant visit
do they have the previous species of the banana that recently went extinct?
The Gros Michel never went extinct, it was just replaced by the Cavendish as the primary banana crop in the 1950's due to being more disease resistant. The Gros Michel is still cultivated and is making somewhat of a comeback due to advances in disease eradication.
Hunter Pruett i know im late, but bananas dont have seeds.
Kobi iboK What do they have?
Kobi iboK - Just to clarify: You do realise the natural banana is so full of seeds it's hard to eat right? The Cavendish and Gros Michel varieties that we eat in the modern age are called clones or hybrids, so the store bought bananas do not have 'reproductive' seeds. They still have tiny microscopic seeds, they are just impotent when it comes to reproduction. Thus, every banana you have ever eaten, was the same banana... How's that for a mind blowing fact?
yes I actually did a research paper on that and the farmed banana is full of many seeds but they are small as the farmed plant has evolved to not need seeds. And yes wild bananas are full of seeds, big ones too
Sorry, did you say the building is only supposed to last for 200 years?
Without matinence im sure they will continue to fix any problems over the years. Plus 200 years is a long time. Thats the U.S. was still just a baby and electricity wouldnt be used for another 100 years
+Jubach That's just what the engineers have guaranteed. But given that most engineers plan for 2x - 3x redundancy I would expect it to last 400-600 years in reality.
Robert Massaioli
I see. Very cool (literally). Perhaps the engineers and our bearded host here could've factored that in.
Im unable to search throught their database with those provided labels.
Can you do a video about the LIGO?
+Andy T
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory Observatory then?
IamGrimalkin whoops
+Andy T Get a video from LIGO!!
+Lakshan K I agree with this guy :D
Seriously it's so stupid to not keep genetically modified seeds, they are improved and offer enriched food, something we really need in a more and more populated world.
Genetically modified foods r unhealthy
There'll be other seed vaults around the world with genetically modified seeds.
True
@@Cloud-yh5gs nope.
You trolling right...
I love how they almost showed us the code to "the worlds most secret room". Lol
"I've traveled 3000 miles to give you my seed!"-Step Brothers
It amazes me that many countries of the world can get along to build somthing for when doomsday comes. But cant do that same thing to help prevent a possible doomsday.
They did not have to get along to build it.
The Norwegians built it and the others are just using it.
It required no cooperation between nations to build.
It amazes me that we are building these stupid things for some stupid doomsday, rather than promote biodiversity, and plant all those seeds all over the planet, so they thrive, the plants are pollinated, they feed people and animals. It amazes me that THEY promote to the mass GMO as the way to go forward, as a perfectly safe equivalent of the original plant, yet they have a strict non-GMO seeds for the vaults. What's their plan ? How good are these seeds if a doomsday catastrophe occurs ? All soils would be fucked, so where do they plan to grow these millions of seeds ? Plus we may then not have the qualified people to grow these seeds, we may not have the right environment (no more bees) to pollinate these plants. I feel all this energy and all these $$$ would be better spent on promoting bio-diversity in the real life. Or did I miss the point of these vaults ?
@@johnsmith-ro2tw they aren't just throwing every seed in there they are just throwing a lot of each kind because if something did happen those plants we grew would be for nothing
Ok fake woke
@@johnsmith-ro2tw you are on point and perfectly side with you.....all these are conspiracy.... They have intended to control the Wold's food by destroying the natural lands with chemicals(chemical fertilizers) after which the vulnerable nations would not get natural seeds to grow any longer.... Hence their dominance with human food,but thank God that nature is fair and we shall all die no matter what.....but I cry for generations to come! Please I want you to be my friend
Wow no weed! What's the point of surviving the apocalypse?
A world without weed would be equivalent to heaven
How do they expect people to relax during those hard times?
@@philipsode4168 ok Philip
@@tombradydid9114 maybe you should see a counsellor if you cant relax without help
@@joshgoodman6534 who would want to counsell my ass during an apocalypse?
No "drugs" and no GM seeds. So basically ALL of humanity's most important crops... In the 40s.PROGRESSSSS
Yeah, just poppy and marijuana seeds. As far as drugs some plants are medicinal.
I have always wanted to see this place. Thank you!