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Bizarre Self-Destructing Palm Tree Found
Smivs writes "A giant self-destructing palm tree has been discovered in Madagascar. The palm is 20m (60ft) high with leaves 5m (16ft) long, the tallest tree of its type in the country, but for most of its life — around 100 years — it appears fairly unremarkable apart from its size. However, when it flowers, it puts so much energy into an impressive flower-spike, that it eventually collapses and dies.
Dr John Dransfield, who announced the tree in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, is baffled as to how it came to be in the country.
It bears a resemblance to a species of palm found in regions of Asia; 6,000km away. It is thought that the palm has gone through a remarkable evolution since Madagascar split with India some 80m years ago."
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bizarre self-destructing ass found
Can it be crossed with President-VICE Cheney to create a self-destructing military-industrial-Congressional complex?
Slashdot readers probably don't care because they'll vote for the whining former prison-of-war-armchair general-mr. know-it-all John McCain.
Sincerely,
Kilgore Trout
...most Slashdotters practically kill themselves trying to get laid, and never succeed either.
We have lots of other things in nature that self-destruct..Vista for example!
Says the self proclaimed genius. Oh, how sad to be an unrecognized genius posting anonymously on Slashdot. You know, not all geniuses are lopsided freaks, some geniuses manage to put some energy into family, friends, and other fun things, and still produce great works. Yeah, geniuses die because they put all their energy into creating great works, as opposed to middle management and morons who live forever. Hey, maybe you're not a genius after all, maybe you're just an anti-social freak?
Ah, the fun to be had in insulting ACs.
whoa whoa whoa, 80 million years? how's that possible, when we all know that the world was created around 4,000 B.C.
in the immortal words of socrates, "i drank what?"