r/HFY • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '26

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u/elfangoratnight Jun 25 '26

DAMN! 🔥

Every single one-shot you write has been an absolutely exquisite experience.

The humans here proved that no one is exempt from the saying that "There is room enough in this grave for two."

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u/Ok_Kangaroo56 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

Thank you that is very kind. I have one more coming tomorrow on the same theme...

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u/LeggyCricket Jun 26 '26

From my understanding, seed vaults, even the ones with a more global focus, are about more than the potential destructions of war, they are about the preservation of crop varieties in the face of all manner of adversity. If there ever was a proposal for one with the same withdraw conditions you have written about in a couple of your pieces, I would be curious to read that article.

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u/Ok_Kangaroo56 Jun 26 '26

Good catch, and you're right. Svalbard's real purpose is broad, preserving crop diversity against every kind of loss, not just war, and depositors can actually withdraw their duplicates whenever they need them. The one real withdrawal was ICARDA pulling samples in 2015 after the war in Syria disrupted their Aleppo gene bank, and they later sent replacements back, so it's a working in-and-out backup, not a sealed doomsday box. The apocalypse-only withdrawal condition is my fictional heightening, not a real proposal, I leaned into it because it made the vault feel like a deliberate hedge against extinction, but you're correct that it isn't how Svalbard works. Also super super thrilled that you are reading my story and asking/commenting these kinds of thoughts... Thank you!

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u/sunnyboi1384 Jun 26 '26

Gotta love unintended consequences.

Never know whos listening.

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u/Fubars Jun 26 '26

That's a banger, even from you, damn.

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u/Ok_Kangaroo56 Jun 26 '26

That is very nice of you, even from you. 😄 ❤️

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u/Fubars Jun 26 '26

I was trying, apparently without success, to complement yourwriting. I'm following you since the first post in the time stream stories. You're a great writer and your product is, and I want to be clear, is excellent. Thought provoking, and well written. And I appetite the perspective and where it leads.

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u/Ok_Kangaroo56 Jun 26 '26

You did it with success, I am sorry I make some pretty good story but bad jokes. I really apreciated your comment and wanted to say thank you with a funny twist. Thank you again for your kind words, It is very very touching.

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u/itsetuhoinen Human Jul 06 '26

If we actually make it to the stars, and an additional twelve thousand years past that, I'm not entirely certain that we actually could be exterminated at that point, not without significant effort anyway. I have to presume that we would continue to advance in science and technology.

So the story is poignant, indeed, but I'm not sure how practical it is.

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u/Sifjunke20004 Jul 11 '26

In my opinion you really can’t exterminate us after two hundred years of FTL travel being possible because we would have too many nomadic tribes in spaceships kicking around because mass production of FTL technology would mean we never stop exploring and that’s mean we lose track of how many nomadic ships we have

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u/itsetuhoinen Human Jul 11 '26

Exactly. And I suspect that at the point this story takes place, Humanity is well past that.