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Flower that blooms once every 3,000 years [pic]

environmentalgraffiti.com — Growing on a steel tube without any earth, the stems are slimmer than human hair, and have little white flowers on top. Local people think these flowers are the legendary Youtan Poluo flower, which blossoms only once every 3,000 years. The is a once in a lifetime opportunity

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  • scottamlegend, on 10/10/2007, -3/+109These are lacewing eggs. Buried as innacurate
  • ukdave, on 10/31/2007, -8/+84I was expecting something a bit more spectacular.
  • b0wl0fud0n, on 10/10/2007, -2/+78Try this - skips the blog: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2382493.html
    However, it's been disproved already: http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/256550.htm
  • Settra, on 10/10/2007, -5/+72If you're going to rip off christianity, at least do it right.
    It's 6000.
  • ghunt, on 10/10/2007, -36/+100but the earth is only 2000 years old.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+60It's just lacewing eggs.
  • SPECOPS, on 10/10/2007, -2/+42Funny how you're being dug-down, but you're correct. This is a myth: http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/256550.htm
    Also buried it as inaccurate.
  • smurf22, on 10/10/2007, -1/+35This flower only blossoms every 3000 years, and it grew on a steel pipe.... Anyone else see what wrong there?
  • SilverBlade2k, on 10/10/2007, -10/+41wow, that went down faster then Paris Hilton in a porn video...
  • inghamb87, on 10/10/2007, -8/+33Oh well come on guys its growing on a metal tube, how much more spectacular can you get!
  • likeathunder, on 10/10/2007, -15/+39I would have expected it to be more beautiful
  • Gir53457, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24No thats just Kieth Richards.
  • TrainingName, on 10/10/2007, -4/+25Well I just missed my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
    The site's down.
  • DjDimitrious, on 10/10/2007, -23/+44Compare to lacewing eggs

    http://www.geocities.com/otherswallpaper/images/wpe22.jpg

    Pretty much the same thing. Nothing to see here, folks.

  • Ottersmash, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Lacewing eggs, bury this as a farce

    http://www.myrmecos.net/insects/Eggs1.html
  • rebopper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Global warming is an extremely tall alcoholic human inside a suit?
  • arcooke, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20"Nothing to see here, folks." ... you weren't kidding...
  • atdakore, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Man why are people so stupid?
    That is obviusly not a good thing, and who the hell heard of a 3000 year old flower bud?
    Headlines like this are just for attention.
    I hope the bugs evolve and eat whoever posted this on DIGG
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18buried as inaccurate
  • thekronz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Christ, for every 3,000 years, you'd think it would be something amazing. Talk about anti-climactic.
  • twrife, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17Gotta love speculation.
  • sdcarter, on 10/10/2007, -5/+18Who still uses Geocities?! Oh wait...
  • Richandler, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Looks like mold.
  • Frnnkdlxx, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14That joke was cheaper than Flavor Flav's Necklaces...

    ....Yet classier than his hoes...
  • Apoc, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13not a direct mirror, but has a picture.

    http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2382493.html?menu=news.quirkies
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11These are lacewing eggs you retards.
  • afreeland, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10and next we have a 20,000 year old fungus spot
  • hippykiller, on 10/10/2007, -6/+14Well actually about 6000, 4000 prior to the J man and then 2000 after.
  • v3rTaBreaker, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10They are lacewing eggs. These are not flowers! *BURY*
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Did someone leave a note or something telling them that it blooms every 3k?
  • dralezero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I doubt the pipe is that old.
  • supermanred, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10Only Diggers could turn a bunch of lacewing eggs first into flowers, and then into legendary flowers and then into a stupid misinformed argument about Christianity.

    Comments like "But the world is only 2000 years old" are ignorant. Nowhere in any of the writings of Christianity or Judaism does it say the world started when the Prophet Jesus was killed.

  • willk281, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8dude i've seriously seen those before, they cant be that rare
  • gumby05, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7looks like we won't be seeing the page for another 3,000 years
  • sinatosk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I know ...

    "Sorry, this GeoCities site is currently unavailable."
  • peekingduck, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10If I were that plain, I'd only come out once every 3000 years, too.
  • ThinkBox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I love this, at 420 diggs, there is a comment with 42 diggs saying it is inaccurate.

    So over 10% of the people should have buried it as inaccurate... but my guess is that burying has proven too much in the past that it does jack *****.

    Nobody cares what's true, its just sensationalism and a headline. Sensationalism = Diggism. People think by digging they are different from the media. People trash how Fox News has all these flashy graphics and hyped up stories.... when digg is about 40x worse. (note, i dont like fox).

    Seriously. stop this ***** on the front page if you want digg to be worth more than cow ***** in 6 months.
  • inspecality, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6or since when was steel around 3000 years ago?
  • sdcarter, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7"Farmer Ding from China told the Sohu News, “I was cleaning the pipes, then my hand touched something fluffy.”

    Dude... that's just your pubes. I feel something fluffy every time I'm "cleaning the pipe."
  • themastersb, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8It looks like a fungus.
  • nielkie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I see these all over the place, how does anyone not?
  • Ocelot13, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6apparently theyve blossomed a couple other times in the past few years in a couple places.
    http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/256550.htm
  • ghunt, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8I'm a atheist, I was just being a drunk ass
  • rolosworld, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5http://www.life.uiuc.edu/ib/109/Insect%20rearing/lacewing.html
  • TnTBass, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Yeah, I agree, they are all a bunch of hypocrites. Either you believe in your Religion, and what it tells you, or you don't. If you don't believe in some parts of the bible, how can you be at all certain the rest of the bible is correct, and therefor, how can you place you trust in that?
  • alterImperson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Crucify them then come to believe that everything they said was right?
  • Killerah, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Wait, you're saying that Christians crucified Christ? Have you read the Bible? His followers definitely weren't the ones crucifying Him.
  • Fisos, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6if you're going to correct a correction, don't give us fake *****, we got enough of that with the "flowers"
  • otakushark, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4LOL. It's not perfect, but I'll put Wikipedia up against your dusty old Bible for accuracy any time. Anyway, there are a nice list of pro-YEC sites in the Wiki article that will tell you the same thing. Here's one: http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/re1/chapter8.asp
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3You're right but people worked it out by looking at family trees and seeing how old they were when they had chilcren etc and worked backward from there. And it says in Genesis that God created the Earth in 6 days then took a day off. Get it right.
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