Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds

Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by harsher on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:59PM (#22300705)

There are other species of plants whose seeds can germinate after a ridiculously long time. Nelumbo nucifera, for example. Still, it is remarkeable.

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Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by Mountain_Skies on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:25PM (#22302417)

Though not extinction, widespread use of birth control could be argued to have been a contributing factor in the fall of Rome.

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Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by progre on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @04:39PM (#22303177)

Or, a territory too large to actually defend, rampant corrution and barbarian hordes?

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