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[Para-Ord.45]

Ah, ok.

Thought this was a Nancy Pelosi thread.

[JaguarXKE]

Why was I expecting to see a picture of Helen Thomas?

[NativeNewYorker]

Please, please, please....no pictures of Helen Thomas.

[OSHA]

[UCANSEE2]

"They cannot move. The outlook is very bad."

So what. They are only clones.

[bossmechanic]

We should declare it a protected species and build an undersea 30’ concrete berm around it.

It’s a weed for cryin’ out loud!
Let it evolve or die.

[Iron Munro]

Helen Thomas Ping!

[DCBryan1]

global warming

....I STOPPED READING RIGHT THERE! LOL...hell, almost pinged the GGG list.

[Snickering Hound]

[WayneS]

Scientists say a patch of ancient seagrass in the Mediterranean... ...could be the oldest known living thing on Earth.

So then, Helen Thomas has died?

[adorno]

At 200,000 years, the thing would have gone through long periods of bigger warming, and very cold periods. Yet, in a period of relatively cool weather, those people would have us believe that, they can’t take it anymore?

The global warming crowd is getting more pathetic and more desperate each day.

[Pollster1]

It's over 12,000 years old, possibly over 125,000 years old, and today's temperatures are killing it. Interesting theory. It's very weak on scientific plausibility, but interesting that anyone would pretend to believe it.

[ExCTCitizen]

You mean I was wrong... HELEN THOMAS is NOT the oldest living thing on the planet???

[SkyDancer]

200,000 years old? How can that be when it’s only 2012????

[StormEye]

" ... say it is one of the world's most resilient organisms - but it has now begun to decline due to global warming."

Of course there's always that evil man-made global warming terrorizing this pristine "resilient organism."

[Mich Patriot]

"The separate patches of seagrass in the Mediterranean span almost 10 miles..."

Two Mexicans would still offer to mow that for about $32.

[capt. norm]

but it has now begun to decline due to global warming

Fifteen years with NO detectable global warming...but it gets the blame anyway.

Anyone else smell an agenda here?

[dragonblustar]

[Texan5]

If this sea grass is 12,000 years old, it survived several climate extremes, like the so-called little ice age and medieval warming period-if it is more than 12,000 years old, then it has been around through some really nasty events-ice ages, huge volcanic eruptions like Toba, etc. If it is hardy enough to survive in amounts large enough to re-multiply in more seagrass friendly times, then I don’t really think we need to worry about it...

[dartuser]

The analysis, ... found the seagrass was between 12,000 and 200,000 years old

Is this what passes for engineering analytical precision these days?