The vault's seed collection, made up of duplicates of those already held at other seed banks, will represent the products of some 10,000 years of plant breeding by the world's farmers. Though most are no longer widely planted, the varieties contain vital genetic traits still regularly used in plant breeding.

Titan A.E., we're working on it.

Non Sequitur with an O drives me UP THE WALL. It gives me the itchies.

Non Sequitor: someone who you expect to be a senator but isn't.

Sort of like Ben Franklin, who Firesign Theatre famously described as America's greatest president who never was.

that could make a really kickass story. thanks for sharing.

Glamour with a U good; humming-penguin wonderful!

Yeah, okay- I'm here again.
It will not be permanently manned, but "the mountains are patrolled by polar bears", says Fowler. That was my favourite line - Real and scary bears, I tell you! Not like the fake ones on Lost.

I wonder if they got the idea from that sci-fi book I read ages ago (argh can't remember the name) where the guy landed on a foregin planet and found a hall with biotops from different worlds.

Yes that's a comfort, because their lives must have become boring now that pollution has made them androgyne so they can reproduce with themselves. Well, in theory at least...*g*

Yesss! That's it! I have most of my old sci-fi books in the attic (for space reasons LOL), so I couldn't check. I'm not sure about the title, but it's one of those with Amerind yes I think - and the cat?
Thank you! Now my brain can rest.

If the world ends, how are the reamining people supposed to be able to get into the seed bank?

One of my favorite writings about writing was this piece by Edward Gorey called The Unstrung Harp (it's featured in the first Amphigorey collection), about C.F. Earbrass writing a novel. The line that sticks with me was about "the unspeakable horror of the literary lifestyle."

It should be a required textbook in any creative writing program.

---L.