Street Art By BR1
why is this not on the tumblr radar
coz tumblr radar is for white people and their boring work
me likey
one of the most awesomest things I’ve ever seen. this deserves way more than just being on tumblr radar!!!
fuck YES
In the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about 1,300 kilometres from the North Pole there is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Svalbard globale frøhvelv) the most secure seedbank of the world. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is designed to preserve the genetic diversity of the world’s food crops, an essential part of the work of preserving the world’s biodiversity.
The Seed Vault has the capacity to store 4,5 million different seed samples and each of these can contain on average 500 seeds, so a maximum of 2,25 billion seeds may be stored in Svalbard. When in full use it will be the world’s largest collection of seeds.
The seedban is constructed 120 metres inside a sandstone mountain. Svalbard is a unique location that was chosen because it has very specific features. It has perfect climate and geology for underground cold storage. Because of the permafrost, the temperature will never rise above minus 3,5 Celsius. The sandstone at Svalbard is stable to build in (its lacks of tectonic activity) and low in radiation. The seeds are stored and conserved in a frozen state at -18°C.
The vault could preserve seeds from most major food crops for hundreds of years. and some, including those of important grains, could survive for thousands of years.
A girl’s best friend… (Female Soviet sniper showing her affection for her Mosin Nagant 91/30 PU sniper rifle.)
*THIS* machine kills fascists ;-)
:-(
Absolutely remarkable sculptures by Kris Kuksi
mural on an egyptian wall.
Monks in overgrown holy ground.
Certainty
If it is real the white
light from this lamp, real
the writing hand, are they
real, the eyes looking at what I write?From one word to the other
what I say vanishes.
I know that I am alive
between two parentheses.—Octavio Paz, from The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1957-1987, edited by Eliot Weinberger (New Directions, 1987)
A Lmotorcycle dealer is helping to return a Harley-Davidson motorcycle to its owner in Japan, after it was washed out to sea by last year’s tsunam,i and ended up on B.C.’s northwest coast. With the subsequent news that the owner had been found, the bike is to be taken to the dealer’s shop and packed for shipping to Japan in its rusted state. Harley-Davidson has offered to restore the bike at one of its Japanese facilities so the owner can see the motorcycle before and after.
Photo credit: Peter Mark / The Canadian Press via AP
A Himba grave decorated with cow skulls in Namibia.
Photo credit: Samantha Reinders
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