What good are the seeds in the Doomsday Vault if there aren't bees to pollinate?

Question

A true global catastophe would render all these good intentions useless, wouldn't it?

Answer 1

Well, I would think they would keep some bees or bee eggs, too.  If they don't, the scientists would keep pollinating them artificially until they could re-geneneticaly engineer a new pollinator.

Answer 2

You would be smart enough to ask this just when I was feeling good about that seed storage. Just took another of my feel safer props out from under me.

Answer 3

I would love to see a movie where they trek across the frozen Atlantic and chisel their way into a 600 foot frozen vault to retrieve seeds.  Now that would be perfect Hollywood sci fi. You think maybe a better location could have been chosen.

Answer 4

And you just know who they're going to get to pollinate all those flowers with a tiny brush.. that's right, me, muggins here will have to do it.

Answer 5

Haha how true... we'll hire some illegals for pollination.

Answer 6

its more like seeds to grow wheat and stuff like that.  not intentionally o be like flowers or stuff like thatt.

Answer 7

Good question.

A catastrophe suffient to require the use of the seeds in storage would have destroyed all of the pollenating insects.

It is interesting that the people involved in this project did not think of that.

Answer 8

actually there are many insects that pollinate plants honey bees are just one. many plants can also be self pollinating. while they now relay mainly on insects as there main pollinator,  if there were not any they would eventually evolve to not need them. survival of the fittest and all that.