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Re:Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012) by spacecop on Sunday June 12, 2016 @11:18PM (#11891533)
I'm sorry, I still don't understand the connection. Aliens buried the flowers under the tundra in the ice age? Why bring it up?
Re:Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012) by wpears on Sunday June 12, 2016 @11:31PM (#11891564)
If the DNA in a seed is still in good enough shape to support blooming after being frozen 30,000 years, perhaps a seed frozen in a meteorite [1] could also survive long enough to be spread between solar systems.

[1] maybe after glancing off a planet or created by the collision of two large objects

Re:Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012) by ASalazarMX on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:24AM (#11894609)
I'm no expert, but wouldn't said seed first be baked by the heat of an impact strong enough to launch a chunk of planet to space?
Re:Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012) by pvaldes on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:59AM (#11892279)
Could survive long enough to be toasted when the meteorite finally falls to the promised land planet, in form of fireball.
Re:Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012) by dgudkov on Monday June 13, 2016 @08:11AM (#11893084)
Inner ice of sufficiently large comets can survive atmospheric entry.
Re:Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012) by pvaldes on Monday June 13, 2016 @01:56PM (#11895782)
I'm not an expert on comets, so I might be wrong, but I guess that we talk about recycled ice; that would be sterilized each time the comet orbit pass closest to the sun and the water is (partially?) boiled, to become frozen again later.

There would be probably other consequences if a such large comet will fall in a planet. I can't see any happy ending for this organism to surviving its travel just by chance. If the comet is small or disintegrates in smaller pieces the plant is roasted and dead. Otherwise if fallen in one piece, all the life in the impact area of such large comet should be crushed by the pressure wave and vaporized also, including our plant

Re:Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012) by spacecop on Monday June 13, 2016 @12:12AM (#11891696)
Ah, I see. Thanks!