Friday 9 February 2007

Cold Comfort


In a remarkable example of confused priorities, the Norwegian government has unveiled the final design of a doomsday vault deep in the arctic to protect three million seed samples from any disaster up to and including a major asteroid strike.

At last we can take comfort in the fact that though our civilisation may become one with Nineveh and Tyre and the human race extinct as all our yesterdays, our begonias will go on forever.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Somewhere, Gregor Mendel smiles