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 Posted: Thu, 23rd May 2019 20:44 Post subject: Svalbard, Norway: The island where no one is allowed to die |
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/themes/adventure/103873808/svalbard-norway-the-island-where-no-one-is-allowed-to-die-or-give-birth
| Quote: | "It's because of the permafrost," explains Hella, continuing her story as the boggy ground makes sucking noises at our boots. "The corpses won't decompose, so they have to be shipped back to the mainland for burial."
The town's small graveyard stopped accepting newcomers in the 1950s, partly because it was feared that the cryogenically preserved bodies could still contained traces of the deadly Spanish flu virus that had killed seven miners back in 1918.
If dying is out of the question, so too is giving birth. "You can't be born in Longyearbyen," says Hella. "When a woman has three weeks left of her pregnancy, she must go back to the mainland to have her baby." I ask Hella what happens if a baby is born prematurely. |
Can't die here, if you do we'll write you a ticket! 
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| Posted: Fri, 24th May 2019 23:48 Post subject: |
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Meh, soon there'll be no permafrost anywhere, so people will be able to buried there.
Problem solved.
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typical jew comment
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Morphineus
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Think they'd store my seed there if I send them a cup? 
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| Posted: Sat, 25th May 2019 05:37 Post subject: |
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| Bendi wrote: | Meh, soon there'll be no permafrost anywhere, so people will be able to buried there.
Problem solved. |
And spanish flu will make a big comeback.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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| Posted: Sat, 25th May 2019 11:54 Post subject: |
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could have a town crier shout 'get yer captain trips here, be environmentmentaly friendly by kicking the bucket.'
The night is dark and the road is long. Come on dead men, return to your homes.
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| Posted: Sat, 25th May 2019 15:16 Post subject: |
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| Morphineus wrote: | | Think they'd store my seed there if I send them a cup? |
You want you seed to live forever?  There can be only one.. or 2 million. |
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| Posted: Sat, 25th May 2019 15:52 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sat, 25th May 2019 16:08 Post subject: |
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Though tbh, I don't think I'll leave a mark on this world. Pretty insignificant, I am. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(Btw since its Max, I'm going to assume he doesn't know that the 'Global seed vault' is located there.  )
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Frant
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| Posted: Sun, 26th May 2019 21:49 Post subject: |
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The seeds they store won't be enough when droughts and floods ruin crops on a global level and wipes out important species of plants. I seem to remember the vault seeking funding to expand their storage for near and long term future.
Living on Svalbard though.... not a nice place to live unless you've got the fur of a polar bear (well, until it turns into a canary island in the not-so-distant future due to the shifts in global weather).
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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