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Extinct Wildflower Found In California
Del writes "A Berkeley graduate student found the pink wildflower Eriogonom truncatum, known as the Mount Diablo buckwheat. The flower hasn't been seen for 70 years and has been rediscovered on the flanks of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County."
It's not really extinct. It can be found in California.
In a rare interview Eriogonom truncatum states "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
Scared of flying, pointy things snce 1979!
"When I took people out to see it, they just walked right by it," Park said. "They couldn't grok that the thing could be so small and dainty."
Oh.
He's a Berkeley grad student. It's quite obvious what he's going to do with the flower: get Amit Singh to install BSD (naturally) on it.
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Then the ivory-billed woodpecker thought to also be extinct ate it.
"Plans are for fools! Oglethorpe, the plutonian (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
1 down, 831 to go.
Someone make this a geocache spot so we can stampede it into extinction once and for all!
Oh, I can't help quoting you because everything that you said rings true
You fool, John Titor brought them back on the soles of his shoes.
Wait, how far back did he go again?
It is now extinct again when scientists picked it and realised they couldn't keep it alive by putting into a glass of water.
/. Headline cannot be wrong. Get some napalm or a molotov if u have any too...
the Berkeley graduate student's girlfriend was flattered with the flower her boyfriend gave her.
What luck! Imagine finding thought to be extinct Mount Diablo buckwheat on the slopes of Mount Diablo? That's got to be one for the record books!
Please tell us more facts about the future.
Sure, no problem. Here's a couple:
You still aren't going to be able to buy a flying car. You will, however, be able to invest in a company which intends to build one.
Some time between 2015 to 2025, expect the cadre of kids now in pre-school to adopt a musical style that current fans of rap will find incomprehensible and offsensive.
Perhaps they can be used to ensure that our kids don't have to work at all...
Well, by the standards of my grandparents and even my parents, what I do hardly counts as work, because it doesn't involve the daily risk of death and dismemberment and is not brutally punishing on my body. I expect that by my grandchildren's time, work will look like hanging around in coffee shop and chatting.
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And there was also a Time Traveller convention. Co-incidence? I think not.
Eriogonom = what the fuck does that mean.
Use the Google, Mr. Hydrocephalic.
Every hit on "Eriogonom truncatum" tells you what it is.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
You mean what has traditionally been referred to as God? Looks like the marketing department has gotten their hands on that too and turned it into: "Intelligent Design is a scalable, multi-platform metaphysical groupware solution."
No, it was pushing up the daisies.
And delicious (burp).
Not to mention the fact that people can barely drive the cars that don't fly.
"You spoony bard!" -Tellah
Don't be so sure this is actually the once-thought-extinct flower they say it is, because fact-checking doesn't seem to be this article-writer's strong point: notice that the caption on the picture of what is clearly a bee sitting on the flower says that it is "a fly".
Of course, that may be the rare and once-thought-extinct beefly, who mimicks bees the same way a viceroy butterfly mimics monarch butterflies...
I have rediscovered the beefly! Hooray for me!
once they get to the sea, they better have good stamina because after that much longer run to the water they still have to elude marine prey.
I think you meant predators. As eluding prey would mean hiding from your food source.
Thanks to the internet, we can now all die alone together! -SomeWoman