The Daily Populous

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway plans to spend 100 million Norwegian crowns ($13 million) to upgrade a doomsday seed vault on an Arctic island built 10 years ago to protect the world’s food supplies, the government said on Friday.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is meant as a natural deep freeze to back up the world’s gene banks in case of disasters ranging from nuclear war to global warming.

One of the newly arrived boxes containing seeds from Japan and the U.S. is carried into the international gene bank Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) outside Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen, Norway, March 1, 2016. »

The ambitious goal is the work of Bigelow Space Operations, which was founded in 1999.

Two space stations are currently being built and are “very far along in fabrication,” reports the Daily Mail.

The goal is for Bigelow Space Operations to offer multi-million dollar reservations to anyone wanting to spend time in space. »

The Japanese government will fund from April the travel costs of storytellers, both within Japan and abroad, who will share the testimonies given by ageing victims of America’s nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

To alleviate the financial burden, the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry has earmarked 30 million yen (US$280,000) in the draft 2018 budget to fund the programme.

Around 30 per cent came from outside Hiroshima or Nagasaki prefectures, including Fukushima and Akita in northeastern Japan. »

It involves a man who was both a dwarf as well as a giant over the course of his lifetime.

Standing 4'8.3'' inches tall at the age of 19, Rainer was considered a dwarf, being nearly 2 inches below the cut-off (4'10'').

Although he was short, medical reports from the period state that Rainer had abnormally large hands and feet for his height. »