Current Events > Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

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Unique laws
Because of the towns remoteness, there are laws in place that are found in few, if any, other places in the world. Notable examples of such laws include a ban on cats, a restriction on how much alcohol an individual can purchase on a monthly basis, and a requirement that any individuals venturing outside carry a rifle for protection against polar bears.[81][82] A popular claim made about the town is that it is illegal to die there but the wording in such a claim is misleading. While it is not actually illegal to die in Longyearbyen, there are no options for burial there and residents considered terminal are typically flown to Oslo to live out the remainder of their days. The decision to disallow burials came in 1950, when it was discovered that the bodies of residents who'd died as a result of the 1918 flu pandemic had not begun to decompose. Today, scientists fear that the corpses, having been preserved by the permafrost in which they were buried, may still contain live strains of that same virus that killed 5% of the world's population in the 20th century.[83]

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E32005 posted...

this is why trump won

This is in norway.

Interesting place, they have a seed bank there that looks just like a Forerunner structure from Halo. I like to think whoever designed it was a fan because its not that dissimilar to the way they catalogued and stored examples of sentient life from the galaxy in the Halo story.

Its Norwegian territory but pretty far from Norway, up in the Arctic between Greenland and Franz Josef Land.
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