Funny wikipedia find

[seedjar]

I was checking the spelling of Dionaea (at this hour my Latin spelling ability is close to zero) and saw this summary for the VFT Wikipedia page on Google:

Venus Fly Traps can grow up to 20 feet tall. It's a scientific fact. The Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey—mostly insects and arachnids.

As they say on 4chan:

It's transient and will probably update soon, but here's the page cached on Google:
http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cach...y+trap&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari
~Joe

 

[theyellowdart]

 

[Capensis]

Lol. I just checked and it's not there anymore.

 

[CN]

Lol. I just checked and it's not there anymore.

Is That a Scientific Fact ?

 

[Alexis]

Are you sure you weren't reading the listing for the spoof Wikipedia site?

 

[seedjar]

I'm 100% sure. The domain was en.wikipedia.org. I quoted from it at about midnight last night my time. The real Wikipedia page had already been fixed - I only saw it on Google's cache. I'm a little surprised that it's been refreshed; I though the Google spiders usually had at least a week or so between updates.
~Joe

 

[cp-connection]

I guess I never knew how to spell Dionaea. Also didn't know they got to 20ft tall. Most of mine are 10-15ft.

 

[Ant]

lol, some people refuse to be told they are wrong and do anything to prove they are right. Also it reminds me of professor wikipedia. XD

 

[marvin1997]

20ft...must be a new cultivar lol