Norway is planning what they’re describing as a “Doomsday vault” in which they will store seed samples from all current food crops. The vault will be located in the Svalbard Islands, near the North Pole.

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One of the scariest stores in old Star Trek - pre-Borg Star Trek - was the “Doomsday Machine”, a starship-eating log that almost gets the Enterprise.

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Phil Plait from the Bad Astronomy website is part of a recent SETI Insitute podcast which talks about cosmic doomsday cults.

Via: Bad Astronomy Blog » Doomsday interview!
[tags]astronomy, seti, phil plait, bad astronomer, cosmic, doomsday, cults[/tags]

Middle school kids get that the human race is more vulnerable to extinction as long as it is confined to the Earth, and suggested creating a “doomsday base” on the moon as a place to hold backups of vital DNA. Presumably they don’t know that part about blasting it across the galaxy.

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Bob Hoskins is joining the cast of Doomsday, a film that takes place thirty years after a virus decimates the population. The film also stars Rona Mitra and Alexander Siddig (Bashir from Deep Space Nine).

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“We’re facing global disaster not because of things people do, but because Jesus loves us so much He wants us all to die horribly.”

Via: it’s all one thing: Armageddon science: blame Jesus, not America
[tags]shetterly, science, jesus[/tags]

Even in Iceland they think about doomsday… the end of the world… zombie attacks. Bird flu. Although apparently they may be well prepared for bird flu as certain cod enzymes may kill the virus. They won’t help with the zombies, though. You might think that Iceland would be proof against zombies, being an island and all, but it didn’t fare well in “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”.

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Normally copyright isn’t something that we have to deal with much here at the Apocalypse Blog (not is it something that certain savory third parties who blatantly violate the Apocalypse Blog’s copyright by reposting our articles on another blog worry much about, either), but recently copyright has been in the news in the UK.

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