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Topic: Now This Is Awesome

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OP - September 26, 2013, 03:27 PM

I like squirrels. Didn't know they could be this useful.
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Reply #1 - September 26, 2013, 03:49 PM

Yes, I have to agree. That is awesome

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #2 - September 26, 2013, 04:46 PM

Thumbs up for Squirrels.
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Reply #3 - September 26, 2013, 06:30 PM

Let me be a bit boring here.
The plant wasn't extinct, as the text on the picture says, but rather they reanimated record old tissue.
More info in the Silene_stenophylla wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silene_stenophylla
It's pretty cool nonetheless...
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Reply #4 - September 26, 2013, 07:45 PM

Yup

God bless the squirrels.
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Reply #5 - September 26, 2013, 11:24 PM

Yeah ok, but how many flowers went extinct because Ice Age squirrels ate the last seeds 32,000 years ago? What about that, huh? Squirrels are evil. Death to squirrels.

Anyway the basic claim is bullshit because...

"Frozen samples, estimated via radiocarbon dating to be around 32,000 years old, were discovered in the same area as current living specimens"

so the flowers were flowering quite happily anyway.

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Reply #6 - September 26, 2013, 11:35 PM

Squirrels are cute. I like rodants.
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Reply #7 - October 31, 2013, 09:38 AM
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