{"id":57589,"date":"2017-05-21T15:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T22:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/the-doomsday-vault-isnt-flooded-but-were-all-still-going-to-die"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:00:31","slug":"the-doomsday-vault-isnt-flooded-but-were-all-still-going-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/the-doomsday-vault-isnt-flooded-but-were-all-still-going-to-die","title":{"rendered":"The Doomsday Vault Isn\u2019t Flooded But We\u2019re All Still Going to Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-doomsday-vault-isnt-flooded-but-were-all-still-going-to-die.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, the seed vault is supposed to function without humans having to get involved with maintenance. The Norwegian government is studying the situation and plans to fix the leak.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It was a story that was too good to pass up. The Svalbard \u2018doomsday\u2019 seed vault <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/may\/19\/arctic-stronghold-of-worlds-seeds-flooded-after-permafrost-melts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had flooded<\/a> because of global warming-induced high temperatures melting the surrounding permafrost. But according to one of the vault\u2019s creators, the reports are pretty overblown and everything\u2019s fine. Well, the vault\u2019s fine. The apocalypse is still ticking along nicely.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-doomsday-vault-isnt-flooded-but-were-all-still-goin-1795400407\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-doomsday-vault-isnt-flooded-but-were-...1795400407<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still, the seed vault is supposed to function without humans having to get involved with maintenance. The Norwegian government is studying the situation and plans to fix the leak. It was a story that was too good to pass up. The Svalbard \u2018doomsday\u2019 seed vault had flooded because of global warming-induced high temperatures melting the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1490,269,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-government","category-life-extension","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57670,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57589\/revisions\/57670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}