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The Guardian reports that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a seed bank near Longyearbyen on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, has flooded due to "melting and heavy rain." The seeds remain safe, according to the article.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @10:48PM
Life as we know it is naturally redundant, if you only let it grow, it grows into its own redundancy.