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Title: Doomsday vault
Post by: pyro-manic on January 16, 2006, 10:38:23 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4605398.stm

This is very cool, and an excellent idea.  :nod::yes:
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: castor on January 16, 2006, 11:04:55 am
Utilizing permafrost? Doesn't sound deep enough..
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: Rictor on January 16, 2006, 12:24:33 pm
Cool cheese. Really, anything to do with the apolcalypse and its aftermath is fascinating as hell.
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: Flipside on January 16, 2006, 12:34:20 pm
Of course, it is sort admitting that it's going to happen.....
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: pyro-manic on January 16, 2006, 12:43:08 pm
Everyone knows that anyway. ;)
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: Sandwich on January 17, 2006, 02:50:47 pm
Were I a megalomaniac trying to destroy the planet, Spitsbergen would have just become my primary target. :nod:
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: Galemp on January 17, 2006, 02:58:45 pm
Couple of problems, assuming humankind self-destructs and we're left with 1% of the earth's population:

A) How many people would know it exists,
B) How many people would know where it is, and
C) How many people would be able to open the damn thing?
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: CP5670 on January 17, 2006, 03:10:26 pm
Vasudans would come along and find it.
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: Rictor on January 17, 2006, 03:11:00 pm
Couple of problems, assuming humankind self-destructs and we're left with 1% of the earth's population:

A) How many people would know it exists,
B) How many people would know where it is, and
C) How many people would be able to open the damn thing?

Some 120-year old hag in an underground vault in San Francisco knows where it is. Your mission is to find her. After you decipher her senile rambling, it will point to the existance of a map. You must find it. Got it? Good, now assemble a team of heavily-armed rag-tag survivors and fight your way to Norway. By now, you should be at least Level 25, and if you have wisely invested your skill points into lock-picking, opening the vault should be easy. If not, there is an alternate route, but the guardian boss is pretty tough. Carefully placed mines and focus fire will carry the day. And done! You now have access to the vault, humanity can begin rebuilding and the end cutscene plays.

Easy.
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: Ford Prefect on January 17, 2006, 03:37:24 pm
I know not with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought over a vault in the Arctic.
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: Ace on January 17, 2006, 06:16:08 pm
Couple of problems, assuming humankind self-destructs and we're left with 1% of the earth's population:

A) How many people would know it exists,
B) How many people would know where it is, and
C) How many people would be able to open the damn thing?

Some 120-year old hag in an underground vault in San Francisco knows where it is. Your mission is to find her. After you decipher her senile rambling, it will point to the existance of a map. You must find it. Got it? Good, now assemble a team of heavily-armed rag-tag survivors and fight your way to Norway. By now, you should be at least Level 25, and if you have wisely invested your skill points into lock-picking, opening the vault should be easy. If not, there is an alternate route, but the guardian boss is pretty tough. Carefully placed mines and focus fire will carry the day. And done! You now have access to the vault, humanity can begin rebuilding and the end cutscene plays.

Easy.

Correction: When you enter the vault you find the corpulent, putrid corpses of Michael Moore and Dick Cheney with their hands on eachother's throats. All of the seeds are oddly missing, though there are a few half digested ones in both of their mouths.

Thus humanity is doomed.
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: aldo_14 on January 17, 2006, 06:17:31 pm

Correction: When you enter the vault you find the corpulent, putrid corpses of Michael Moore and Dick Cheney with their hands on eachother's throats. All of the seeds are oddly missing, though there are a few half digested ones in both of their mouths.

Thus humanity is doomed.

I thought Dick Cheney was undead?
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 17, 2006, 06:26:45 pm
Correction: When you enter the vault you find the corpulent, putrid corpses of Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh with their hands on eachother's throats. All of the seeds are oddly missing, though there are a few half digested ones in both of their mouths.

Thus humanity is doomed.

Corrected again.
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: Ace on January 17, 2006, 06:53:04 pm
Correction: When you enter the vault you find the corpulent, putrid corpses of Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh with their hands on eachother's throats. All of the seeds are oddly missing, though there are a few half digested ones in both of their mouths.

Thus humanity is doomed.

Corrected again.

Touche'  :lol:
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: Setekh on January 17, 2006, 09:16:58 pm
It's the Ark for vegetarians. Cool.
Title: Re: Doomsday vault
Post by: pyro-manic on January 17, 2006, 10:14:17 pm
And for everyone else, in fact. ;)