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3.64s(CREW SCREAMING)
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1.17sBehold!
3.27sThe Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
5.4sSince 2008, the vault has preserved seeds of every known plant species,
1.65sin case of extinction.
1.65sAnd I brought a few seeds of my own.
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5.04s(BARKING) Halt! What's your business pokey-poking about the seed vault?
3.2sGuardian of mankind's precious botanical heritage there?
2.62sWe just want to come in and rummage about a bit.
2.7sOh, so... Okay.
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2.64sYo, ABBA, what's that next door?
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2.54sThat's the Germ Warfare Repository.
1.37sIt's so close.
3.12sIs there any chance of cross-contamination?
1.72sNo.
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4.74sNow, your pine trees were all chopped down to make emergency toilet paper during the Fifty-Year Squirts.
2.43sLucky the seeds have been preserved here in the vault there.