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jrockway on June 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice...

I guess it's all about freeze/thaw cycles, if the plant can handle one 6 month freeze, it can probably handle one 30,000 year freeze. The freezing is what causes damage, not the being-frozen. I guess.

kseistrup on June 13, 2016 [–]

Even though the seed is frozen, respiration still goes on -- albeit slowly -- and eventually the seed will run out of fuel and die.

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