[pyro-manic]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4605398.stm

This is very cool, and an excellent idea. 

[castor]

Utilizing permafrost? Doesn't sound deep enough..

[Rictor]

Cool cheese. Really, anything to do with the apolcalypse and its aftermath is fascinating as hell.

[Flipside]

Of course, it is sort admitting that it's going to happen.....

[pyro-manic]

Everyone knows that anyway.

[Sandwich]

Were I a megalomaniac trying to destroy the planet, Spitsbergen would have just become my primary target.

[Galemp]

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?

[CP5670]

Vasudans would come along and find it.

[Rictor]

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.

[Ford Prefect]

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.

[Ace]

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.

[aldo_14]

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?

[Nuclear1]

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.

[Ace]

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' 

[Setekh]

It's the Ark for vegetarians. Cool.

[pyro-manic]

And for everyone else, in fact.