what i'm talking about is
this. the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. well...what i know is what i read here... it is an elegant concept... this one is for seed samples...maybe they will build one for dna samples (for future cloning initiatives...what, u don think cloning will take ff? hahah), and another one for all known knowledge...eheheheh, a Repository of Knowledge... maybe one day can download it into my brain...hehheheh!
That's the seed vault, it is also being named doomsday seeds vault.
For my doubt is... why choose there (location ), why being built deep in (tunnelling ), why all the airlocks and tight security ? Those seeds are for who to plant, when to ? Practically, the seed vault should be use like our bomb shelter...as a store room.
As for the Nat Geographic thing of explaination, its too complicated for me to understand. All I knew was, the NASA and whatever hi-tech info that they have got, the ISS inclusive, they were unsuccessful in predicting/ preventing the Katrina from hitting their own New Orleans.