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- molecool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"So they find this 6,000 year old tree in a gravel pit, and what do they decide to do with it? Make furniture out of it."
Don't be surprised - this tree was found in the U.S. - and the only value perceived in this country is that of the almighty dollar. Just look at how cities are built - functional, blant, and dehumanized. Not a single thought was probably spent on maybe 'perserving it and putting it into a museum'. This society will not rest until every piece of material in its country somehow makes it onto eBay...
A sad state of affairs indeed. - MaxSand, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you want to see a pic of an old tree, do a search for Methuselah, a bristlecone pine nearly 4,800 years old and still alive.
- donbigmano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.championtrees.org/champions/images/pinebristlecone.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.championtrees.org/champions/pinebristlecone.htm&h=339&w=472&sz=57&tbnid=hUwfdqqaSXF60M:&tbnh=89&tbnw=125&hl=en&start=31&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMethuselah%26start%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN
After searching for one, I think this is Methuselah. - GreenSlabOfClay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wonder what a guitar or other musical instruments made from that wood would sound like?
- foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"OMG woop de ***** do it is a good dam tree!"
i don't know how well beavers could utilize a 6000-year-old [probably] petrified tree in a dam. so, it's really a bad dam tree. - lysdexic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"If you want to see a pic of an old tree, do a search for Methuselah, a bristlecone pine nearly 4,800 years old and still alive."
Good luck finding a pic. It's location is secret and while there are many pics of bristlecone pines, none are likely pics of Methuselah. - MrPhelps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Speaking of Methuselah ... After the discovery of this group of extremely old bristlecones pines a student of the university of Utah, Don Currey, decided to determine their exact age. So he went there, and cut down the first tree he saw and started to count the rings. After careful checking and re-checking, he came to more than 4900.
He had discovered the world's oldest living oragnism, and he had killed it. - patrickweber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"sorry, but is the 6000 years: 1) the age of the tree or 2) the time that it has been buried?"
the first sentence of the article answers that. - Kiddeath91, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's the pic:
http://tinyurl.com/o4jrm - chazkerster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmm. Here in New Zealand there is a fairly major industry making furniture out of "Swamp Kauri" - typically 30,000 years old, and up to 50,000 years old. Kauri is a rather lovely wood anyway, and the swamp Kauri tends to have particularly beautiful colouration. Google to see examples (normally bowls on-line, but Kauri are massive, so you can get any furniture made from this stuff - at a price).
- cmeister, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1not too impressinve considering the following:
http://ancientwood.com/ - entheos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Although they sort of mention it might be as old as 30,000 years, they fail to mention that the continental glaciers only made it to around the Michigan-Indiana border during the last Ice Age and retreated 10,000 years ago. There may have been some ice around then but it is probably more likely that it was buried in glacial outwash (which is pretty much what a gravel pit is).
I'm surprised someone from the government didn't try to claim it for its historical value like they do with meteorites. - efisher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The last Ice age ended 12-13000 years ago unless they are talking about isolated glaciers that remained after the end of the Ice age. Also the tree would have been uprooted and carried to it's current location when the glacier formed and left behind when it retreated. I think 6000 years is conservative, try 20-30,000 years. I hope they got some DNA samples.
- diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I never knew any type of tree could be that old.
- ThePhilomath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Submit it to researchers such as anthropologists that use dendochronology (tree rings) to learn about climate patterns and how that effects humans. Also, there are many more better uses for this tree than furniture in other reasearch areas.
Make furniture from new trees! - geoffoliver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"So they find this 6,000 year old tree in a gravel pit, and what do they decide to do with it? Make furniture out of it."
My thoughts exactly. Greedy bastards. - Comsamvimes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So they find this 6,000 year old tree in a gravel pit, and what do they decide to do with it? Make furniture out of it.
Seems a bit disrespectful to me. - ThePhilomath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And by some funny coincidence, many Americans are idiots!
- Craptacular, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11. Curious, but did they consider if there were ancient microbes that could survive the thaw and thus resurrect a disease previously extinct? Great intro for an end-of-humankind type of movie.
2. Why the animosity for no picture? People only read picture books these days? The photo will turn up, duh. - Mojave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you want old trees, just check out the Bristlecone Pines - they can live up to about 5000 years. There is at least one specimen measured at 4700 years old (wikipedia). Seen some young relatives in New Mexico myself.
- Fizzle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i want to know who sat there and counted the rings?
- flying, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mmmm popsickals....
- Fizban119, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The story would be cool if the tree was actually 6000 years old, but the article says that it was felled when it was around 300 years old. It was then buried by a glacier which preserved it for the most part.
- wayjer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Any pics?
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1the word felled sounds funny in the article. I know its a real word and all but, they should have worded it with just fallen.
- snowboarder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i hate articles w/ no pic
- Kalibr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's a shame they are just cutting it up.
- Kiridan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"My thoughts exactly. Greedy bastards."
It's a tree. Not only that, it's a tree that still exists today. - spannage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is a misleading post. Most will think it is a live tree that is 6000 years old. Fossil trees and wood are common and this is not a particularly interesting find. Dumb diggs gang.
- gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1TREE?!? He is no tree! He is an Ent!*
*yeah, I know that line is nowhere in the book, but dammit, I like the movie... - dlvolk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thats going to be quite a few popsicle sticks
- TransmitThis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0300 years old - then preserved so no digg ;)
Do like old trees, but this was a bit misleading...
wanted an living 6000y old tree :D LOL
but then I am strange - RotAtoR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Meh, I've seen a 1600 year old tree and it was still living. Just visit Bryce Canyon national park in Utah.
- thewhitefedora, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"I wonder what it's commercial value is"
It seems as though they'd turn it into $1 bills before even thinking about putting it in a museum or something - etruscan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Wow... imagine having a piece of furniture carved, or built, from 6,000 year old wood. Incredible.
- mikey601587, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Why would anyone write a news article about something likes this and not get a single picture of the danm thing?! -NO DIGG!
- molecool, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0/perserving/preserve/g
- barium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Yggdrasil
- JohnnySoftware, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I wonder if they found a 6000 year old dog right next to it.
- pintong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is not an article. It's an advertisement.
- TimmyK., on 10/12/2007, -1/+0That might possibly be the very first tree ever produced in gods earth factory 6000 years ago!!!!!!!!!!
- Orangutan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"TREE?!? He is no tree! He is an Ent!" damn straight he is. but he's gone all treeish.
- dave_colorado, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0firewood
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0NO PIC?!?!?!?!?
- Palantar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0So, to the whole capitalists are evil crowd... what would you do with it? I mean, it's a 6,000 year old tree. Set up the world's tallest museum exhibit so that hundreds of school age children can glance at it and go "Eww, boring" and keep walking?
- riskable, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I can't believe no one has made the cheesy comment:
6,000-year-old tree... They Dugg it and I Digg it!
-Riskable
http://www.riskable.com
"I have a license to kill -9" - Jetfire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"So they find this 6,000 year old tree in a gravel pit, and what do they decide to do with it? Make furniture out of it."
Yep, thats why America is great we actual use things and don't set around looking at things that do nothing and take up space. - tastypastry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I use to live by the oldest growing tree in Indiana untill I moved to stupid Texas.
- UnKnownViper27, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0NO PICTURE = NO DIGG
(Why do you people digg stupid crap like this that has no picture. I could say I found the Holy Grail with no picture and you would believe it.) - Nichevo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Thats Unpossible!
If it's older than 6000 years than it must be a test of our faith from God. -
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