“ONE million books from Manchester’s Central Library – including valuable volumes dating back to the 15th century – are to be put into temporarily storage with many going deep underground in the Cheshire salt mines.” – www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk.

Now why I find this strange is why store them underground just until 2013? That’s what gets my mind racing.

“Central Library will re-open in 2013 with a new state-of-the-art lending library, electronic catalogue and archive centre, to bring historic local collections under one roof. A one-stop customer services centre will also be created on the ground floor of the town hall extension.”

Now it could be just as they say but then i get to thinking about all the seed vaults we keep hearing about in the US and Russia.

“Works from the city’s reference library will be stored in the mines, hundreds of feet below ground, for the next three years while the landmark city centre site undergoes a massive refurbishment to save it from ruin.

Experts say the mine’s caverns – the size of 700 football pitches – provide the perfect environment for preserving the manuscripts, which include the works of eminent academics.”

Hey, maybe they don’t have the space to store them above ground, but why a salt mine? Everyone knows that salt is extremely corrosive, especially to paper. So what gives?

But I’m sure it’s nothing to be scared of. They always put irreplaceable artifacts way underground during times of war.

WWI, WWII.

WWIII?

Is the Sun going to get angry?

Nibiru?

Asteroid doom?

World wide chaos?

Cheers
Col Mike

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