The Vault

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Svalbard is a remote Norwegian archipelago that's the home to a vault containing seeds for virtually every edible plant one can imagine.

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.
0:06.0	In the Arctic Ocean there's a cluster of islands called Svalbard.
0:10.0	The islands are technically part of Norway,
0:12.0	but they're much farther north than the mainland,
0:14.4	like way, way up toward the North Pole.
0:17.5	The landscape is icy and mountainous, and on one of the icy mountains of Swalbard
0:22.4	is a very curious thing.
0:24.0	A vault.
0:26.0	The entrance to the vault itself is small but striking.
0:29.0	It's like a man-made obelisk sticking out of a glacier on top of a mountain.
0:34.0	Yes, the vault itself is inside a mountain.
0:39.0	That's Ben Brock Johnson from the podcast Endless Thread,
0:42.0	a show in which Ben and his co-host
0:43.5	Amory Severtson tell stories that they find on Reddit. This week we're
0:47.8	featuring one of those stories so I'm going to hand this one off to Ben and
0:51.0	Amory.
0:52.6	The story has actually been posted a few times by different creditors, but it's about people
0:56.7	who aren't necessarily creditors.
0:58.6	Haga, Marie Haga.
1:01.0	Do you think Marie Haga is a Redditor,? I don't know but she definitely knows how to talk to interviewers
1:07.0	Do you want very short answers medium answers?
1:11.0	Marie Haga is a former Norwegian diplomat. She was a member of Parliament in that country,
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