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Extinct Wildflower Found In California

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the welcome-back dept.

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."

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  1. He found a *flower* by FirienFirien · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.

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    1. Re:He found a *flower* by NeoSkandranon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Off topic but:

      Jumping spiders do in fact make great pets. Their eyesight is sharp enough they seem to be watching you when you move around, and jumping spiders are quite ferocious for their size, making feeding a matter of getting small crickets (or houseflies depending on the size of the spider)

      Depending on what part of the nation you live in you could possibly also find wolf spiders (Lycosa spp., I think) which get a bit larger if your kids want something more visible. Or you could get them a tarantula...

      </spider enthusiast>

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    2. Re:He found a *flower* by Shotgun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      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.

      Don't be so sure about that. The most recent EAA newsletter had a blurb that the boys over at Monster Garage will be having a go at it.

      I expect that by my grandchildren's time, work will look like hanging around in coffee shop and chatting.

      As opposed to standing around a water cooler chatting? The jobs with risk of death and dismemberment are still around. And they're still brutally punishing to the body. But they're either done in China or by illegal Mexicans, so nobody here seems to care much.

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  2. Re:Grok! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please eat shit and die.

  3. Re:When you go to San Francisco by hey! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All you guys that make fun of hippies are just jealous of the era of free love and STDs that could be cured by sort course of penicillin.

    Back in the late 60's early 70's, everything that had a pulse got shagged. Wearing sideburns and bell bottoms was a small price to pay.

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  4. Slashdot by LNN · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    News for botanics. Stuff that smells good.

  5. Re:Why is this news for nerds? by hey! · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's news for herbs, stuff that manures.

    Oh, wait.

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  6. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FUNNY!

  7. Meanwhile back at the ranch... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... I found a lost £1 coin in a pocket of a pair of jeans I'd lost ten years ago. Film at 11.

  8. Re:Well, with Diablo on the loose... by databyss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I submit the previous post as exhibit "A" in my case against employment!

    We now have hard, scientific evidence that employment leads to lower intelligence.

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  9. Re:This just in by atomm1024 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Holy shit... just a few minutes ago (before I saw this /. article) I suddenly thought of that Mark Twain quote. Seriously. And it was basically unexplained; it's not like I think about Mark Twain's witticisms on a regular basis. And now I see this. Yow!

    (It's happened before. I'm always having precognitions of Simpsons episodes, for example. I guess I'm psychic about really unimportant things.)

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  10. Re:The headline is wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    From parent's sig: I'm an artist and I hate IP laws.

    My guess then is that you aren't a very successful artist.

  11. And in other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sasquatch has been found to be living in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf as an entertainer.

  12. Re:Amazing Coincidence by bobpence · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Berkeley puts out geniuses. Specifically, for every 100 it takes in, about 3 make it out. The rest become addle-brained communists.

  13. I call bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Someone with the profession of actor is no less qualified than one with any other career to become a politician. We've had farmers, writers, soldiers, business owners, merchants, the works. Some were good, some were bad. Their career paths had nothing to do with it.

    I bet if Reagan and Arnie had been Democrats, you wouldn't have a problem with them being actors.