Comments on: Flowering Plant Revived After 30,000 Years in Russian Permafrost http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/flowering-plant-revived-after-30000-years-in-russian-permafrost/ The latest Technology news and blog posts from ABC News contributors and bloggers. Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:52:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Doug D http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/flowering-plant-revived-after-30000-years-in-russian-permafrost/#comment-1395262 Doug D Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:18:19 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/?p=54872#comment-1395262 i can't wait 'till they clone a Mammoth :) that can't be too many years away now, can it? i can’t wait ’till they clone a Mammoth :)

that can’t be too many years away now, can it?

]]> By: redgirl http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/flowering-plant-revived-after-30000-years-in-russian-permafrost/#comment-1375202 redgirl Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:44:32 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/?p=54872#comment-1375202 How amazing!!! I can barely keep a cactus alive and these guys got frozen plant cells to grow into a viable plant that can procreate. I can't imagine all the hard work it must have taken to accomplish this feat. The implications are fantastic too. How amazing!!! I can barely keep a cactus alive and these guys got frozen plant cells to grow into a viable plant that can procreate. I can’t imagine all the hard work it must have taken to accomplish this feat. The implications are fantastic too.

]]> By: Matt Horns http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/flowering-plant-revived-after-30000-years-in-russian-permafrost/#comment-1370632 Matt Horns Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:52:41 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/?p=54872#comment-1370632 No, Martimouse123, a squirrel did not dig a hole 125 feet deep through permanently soft soil . A squirrel buried the seed in a shallow hole during the summer when a foot or two of the surface thaws. Thousands of years of sedimentation buried the site after that. No, Martimouse123, a squirrel did not dig a hole 125 feet deep through permanently soft soil . A squirrel buried the seed in a shallow hole during the summer when a foot or two of the surface thaws. Thousands of years of sedimentation buried the site after that.

]]> By: Brian http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/flowering-plant-revived-after-30000-years-in-russian-permafrost/#comment-1364442 Brian Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:16:50 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/?p=54872#comment-1364442 YES, you amateur commentators out there, it should look very similar to species still alive today, because that genus is still around with many species existing all over the place. They took CELLS not SEEDS and cloned them into a similar species alive today to get the end-resulting plant ... The real wonder here is not the cloning - that's very common - but that they found viable tissue to use from 30K yrs ago. Just enjoy the pictures. Remember, they didn't plant a 30K yr-old seed and then grew it - much more complicated. YES, you amateur commentators out there, it should look very similar to species still alive today, because that genus is still around with many species existing all over the place. They took CELLS not SEEDS and cloned them into a similar species alive today to get the end-resulting plant … The real wonder here is not the cloning – that’s very common – but that they found viable tissue to use from 30K yrs ago. Just enjoy the pictures.
Remember, they didn’t plant a 30K yr-old seed and then grew it – much more complicated.

]]> By: Honestopionion510 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/flowering-plant-revived-after-30000-years-in-russian-permafrost/#comment-1358122 Honestopionion510 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:06:46 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/?p=54872#comment-1358122 Cool, that's how plant life looked before the great flood... Cool, that’s how plant life looked before the great flood…

]]> By: rich http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/flowering-plant-revived-after-30000-years-in-russian-permafrost/#comment-1355682 rich Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:39:23 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/?p=54872#comment-1355682 what if the plant is really a shape-shifting alien, frozen when it crash-landed 30,000 years ago? we're all dead soon! aaarrrggghhh! what if the plant is really a shape-shifting alien, frozen when it crash-landed 30,000 years ago? we’re all dead soon! aaarrrggghhh!

]]> By: glacia http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/flowering-plant-revived-after-30000-years-in-russian-permafrost/#comment-1355582 glacia Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:44:11 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/?p=54872#comment-1355582 @Arf40 - I would say that even sadder is how much they are pandered to in politics and education. Compared to the rest of the world the US slides downhill a little more every year in math and science and yet we continue to give superstition and iron age myths equal or higher credence as empirical evidence. In many ways the US deserves to fail. @Arf40 – I would say that even sadder is how much they are pandered to in politics and education. Compared to the rest of the world the US slides downhill a little more every year in math and science and yet we continue to give superstition and iron age myths equal or higher credence as empirical evidence. In many ways the US deserves to fail.

]]> By: Arf40 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/flowering-plant-revived-after-30000-years-in-russian-permafrost/#comment-1355232 Arf40 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:43:51 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/?p=54872#comment-1355232 Neat article. And I love when the young earthers come out on comment areas...I just crack up at some of the silly things these people say. What's really funny (or sad, depending on how you want to look at it) is that they actually believe the planet, in fact the whole universe, is just 6,000 years old! Neat article. And I love when the young earthers come out on comment areas…I just crack up at some of the silly things these people say. What’s really funny (or sad, depending on how you want to look at it) is that they actually believe the planet, in fact the whole universe, is just 6,000 years old!

]]> By: MyTake http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/flowering-plant-revived-after-30000-years-in-russian-permafrost/#comment-1354712 MyTake Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:14:03 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/?p=54872#comment-1354712 Isn't reviving dormant lifeforms like this just how stories like "The Thing" begin? Isn’t reviving dormant lifeforms like this just how stories like “The Thing” begin?

]]> By: Bryan http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/flowering-plant-revived-after-30000-years-in-russian-permafrost/#comment-1354702 Bryan Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:03:38 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/?p=54872#comment-1354702 No, Rombo, just before man created god. :-) No, Rombo, just before man created god. :-)

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