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>"Onkalo must last for 100,000 years. A hundred thousand years ago, Europe was in the middle of the Ice Age." I think they mean "beginning of the most recent g
by nonbel 9y ago
>"Onkalo must last for 100,000 years. A hundred thousand years ago, Europe was in the middle of the Ice Age."
I think they mean "beginning of the most recent glacial period" rather than ice age, but anyway I hope this site is better planned out than that seed vault.[1] They need to plan ahead for 10 C temperature changes and growing/receding glaciers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_Age_Temperature.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_Age_Temperature.png
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14377988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14377988