This is light and trivial - do you want to know something about flowers?

ThomWV

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Tue May-06-08 05:32 PM
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This is light and trivial - do you want to know something about flowers?

Tonight on PBS' Nova there is a show about the origin of flowers. That is all I know about it. When I saw that it occurred to me that that at over 60 years old I am a blank slate as far as knowledge of the origin of flowers goes. I don't know a damned thing about it, not a shred. Bet a lot of you don't either. So I'm going to learn something tonight, something I knew nothing about what so ever. I just love it when that happens. Comes on at eight if you're interested.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Tue May-06-08 05:33 PM
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1. Oh, you'll like the show.

You'll be surprised.

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RaleighNCDUer

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Tue May-06-08 05:54 PM
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2. A good show to distract yourself with while waiting for the results

to come in.

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ThomWV

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Tue May-06-08 05:59 PM
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5. Couldn't care less about the results, didn't want either of them will take which ever wins.

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aikoaiko

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Tue May-06-08 05:57 PM
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3. They don't come from plants or trees?

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ThomWV

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Tue May-06-08 05:58 PM
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4. I presumed they came from alge or maybe some sort of moss

Like I said, I don't know jack shit.

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Suich

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Tue May-06-08 08:36 PM
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7. Looks interesting...

have you watched it yet? Any good?

http://www.wimp.com/jackschitt/

:)

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bananas

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Tue May-06-08 06:05 PM
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6. Which came first, flowers or bees?

Flowers need bees for pollination,
but bees need flowers for nectar.

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lonestarnot

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Tue May-06-08 08:43 PM
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8. Thanks.

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InvisibleTouch

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Tue May-06-08 10:25 PM
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9. "Invented" by Dinosaurs...

...at least according to paleontologist Robert Bakker. His theory is that the selection pressure driving the evolution of flowers was the browsing of herbivorous dinosaurs in the Jurassic Period.

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