February 24th, 2012 at 8:16PM
rhamphotheca: 32,000-Year-Old Plant Brought Back to Life—Oldest Yet by Rachel Kaufman The oldest plant ever to be regenerated has been grown from 32,000-year-old seeds—beating the previous recordholder by some 30,000 years. A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, a flowering plant native to Siberia, that had been buried by an Ice Age squirrel near the banks of the Kolyma River (map). Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the seeds were 32,000 years old. The mature and immature seeds, which had been entirely encased in ice, were unearthed from 124 ft (38 m) below the permafrost, surrounded by layers that included mammoth, bison, and woolly rhinoceros bones. The mature seeds had been damaged—perhaps by the squirrel itself, to prevent them from germinating in the burrow. But some of the immature seeds retained viable plant material… (read more: National Geo)     (photo: National Acad. of Sciences) This is just plain sexy.

rhamphotheca:

32,000-Year-Old Plant Brought Back to Life—Oldest Yet

by Rachel Kaufman

The oldest plant ever to be regenerated has been grown from 32,000-year-old seeds—beating the previous recordholder by some 30,000 years.

A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, a flowering plant native to Siberia, that had been buried by an Ice Age squirrel near the banks of the Kolyma River (map). Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the seeds were 32,000 years old.

The mature and immature seeds, which had been entirely encased in ice, were unearthed from 124 ft (38 m) below the permafrost, surrounded by layers that included mammoth, bison, and woolly rhinoceros bones. The mature seeds had been damaged—perhaps by the squirrel itself, to prevent them from germinating in the burrow. But some of the immature seeds retained viable plant material…

(read more: National Geo)     (photo: National Acad. of Sciences)

This is just plain sexy.

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February 24th, 2012 at 1:36PM
Thanks, internet.

Thanks, internet.

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February 24th, 2012 at 10:48AM
svalts: Up up and Away! - by Marcus Hermansson (via: insanelygaming)  

svalts:

Up up and Away! - by Marcus Hermansson

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February 24th, 2012 at 7:36AM

Throw away all of your compositions.

Receive email the next morning asking you for a copy of one.

#fml
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:45PM

Nope.

I thought I was going to have a good night.

#lame
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:34PM
naoconcordonemdiscordo: Your moment of Zen Good stuff.

naoconcordonemdiscordo:

Your moment of Zen

Good stuff.

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February 23rd, 2012 at 4:24PM
No way!
#Slashdot#astronomy
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:36PM
urhajos: Snow Drawings by Sonja Hinrichsen My first thought is, can we automate this with Roomba’s (or their retarded cousin ‘Scooba’s”)?

urhajos:

Snow Drawings by Sonja Hinrichsen

My first thought is, can we automate this with Roomba’s (or their retarded cousin ‘Scooba’s”)?

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February 23rd, 2012 at 10:48AM
It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact, that men have gone to war and cut each other’s throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut. — Walter P. Stacy (via sirmitchell)
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February 22nd, 2012 at 7:14PM
Ahaha. Very nice.

Ahaha. Very nice.

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