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- w33t, on 10/12/2007, -2/+195She still had so much left to accomplish though :(
2008: at 178 she witnesses the US annexing of Sweden and the return of Futurama to prime time.
2010: Zerg attack results in many bases belonging to them. Harried is 180 and has great honor.
2026: 196 years old, Harriet is involved in and directly responsible for the emergence of the technological singularity.
2038: Breakthroughs in life-extension technologies help to alleiviate Harriets recent depression stemming from her midlife crisis. She is now 202
23391: By fighting and defeating the Harkonnen Harriet achives her destiny as the new messia. She is 21,555 years young. - Aussie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+104Indeed.
http://digg.com/science/The_oldest_living_creature_on_Earth
"Harriet the tortoise is 175 years old and the size of a dinner table, and still going strong."
Harsh coincidental there. Nice find.
"A (VERY) SLOW MARCH THROUGH HISTORY
1830: Harriet is born - and her home country Ecuador becomes independent and elects its first president.
1834: Aged four, the young tortoise is basking in the Galapagos sun when the British abolish slavery and the Tolpuddle martyrs are banished to Australia.
1843: She is just a teenager when Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol is published.
1852: When Harriet hits 22, Australia's gold rush kicks off after a half-ounce nugget is found in Queensland and thousands of prospectors flood the area.
1865: As she reaches 35, the world is shocked at the assassination of American president Abraham Lincoln at the hands of actor John Wilkes Booth.
1868: Harriet is 38 - and the last British convicts arrive in Australia.
1880: As Harriet turns 50, the infamous Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly hangs in the Old Melbourne Jail.
1882: The Aussies achieve the unthinkable - and beat England at cricket on home soil for the first time, giving birth to The Ashes.
1901: At 71, Harriet is already a pensioner when her adopted country is unified and the Australian flag flies for the first time.
1915: Gallipoli, the First World War battle against the Turks, claims the lives of 7,600 Australians as Harriet reaches 85.
1945: Harriet is pushing 115 when the atomic bomb obliterates the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
1953: The grand old lady is 123 when Queen Elizabeth II is crowned in Westminster Abbey in London.
1956: Dame Edna Everage makes her first appearance, courtesy of Australian comic Barry Humfries. Harriet is 126.
1967: Aborigines are finally given citizenship when Harriet is 137 after 90 per cent of Australians vote Yes in a referendum.
1968: When she reaches 138, Australia's most famous export, Kylie Minogue, is born... and a year later man first sets foot on the moon.
2000: She's 170, and Australia hosts the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the most successful ever." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+83Wasnt there a story on Digg a week ago or so that said the tutrle was expected to live another ten years.
- D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -1/+63"It still amuses me how many Americans (well, USAnians) think that tortoises and turtles are the same thing."
Because in Europe, you're all zoologists, obviously. - Aussie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+63That is one amazing lifespan.
- motionblur, on 10/12/2007, -7/+42I bet Harriet couldn't handle getting Dugg last week!
- jesuspchrist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25It was Murder I tell you, MURDER.
Harriet was murdered, by a creationist, in the conservatory, with the candlestick. - captaincheeno, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29That's taking the digg effect to the extreme. :)
- Aussie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Looking at Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet , and through those articles, it's pretty amazing. First to be owned by the guy that challenged thought in a major way - Charles Darwin and then to be kept at Australia Zoo by Steve Irwin. When you think of say Queen Elizabeth II, she was monarch when Sir Winston Churchill was in number 10. That's amazing enough when you think about it, and the closeness of the events of WWII to present day. But to have an animal live through so many generations.
Charles Dickens, Booth-Lincoln, Ned Kelly, wars, etc. Incredible. And what a change on the spectrum between Darwin and Irwin. - dcipjr, on 10/12/2007, -11/+33I'm pretty sure Charles Darwin wouldn't give a damn.
- MicroBerto, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27We jinxed her :(
- Nobi-Wan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Why? She had a long and natural life and at 176 I really wonder what kind of state her health was in. It's an incredible story to hear that an animal like that has been around since the time of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson.
She's even older than the U.S. Republican Party! - CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -8/+29That's a shame...
- dcipjr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22She only outlived Darwin by 124 years.
- GiggleStick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Cazabum said:
>> "It still amuses me how many Americans (well, USAnians) think that tortoises and turtles are the same thing."
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise
The Oxford English Dictionary uses "tortoise" as historically interchangeable with "turtle" and references can still be found, for example, to the "loggerhead tortoise."
Silly Americans with their so called "Oxford English Dictionary". This may surprise you, but a lot of seemingly American language inventions, are actually hold-overs from English as spoken in the UK during colonization. Just because the British don't say something anymore, doesn't make it incorrect. Do you really think that English in England is the same as it was 300 years ago? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18"For over a century, Harriet was actually mistaken as a male, and thus named Harry." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet)
that must have been a good oh-*****! moment. - warmonger48, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Think of all the different things we could have seen if we lived that long: birth of the industrial age, WW 1 and 2, rise of communism, Barney the dinosaur, the nuclear bomb, theory of relativity, birth of the Internet, disco, man on the moon, 80's hair and cell phones. When the tortoise was born the world still was using horse and buggies, muskets, no phones, no motorcars, not a single luxury. Look how far we've come in one animals lifetime.
- warmonger48, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19If you ever watched Gilligan's Island you would have realized that was a line on the show. I was trying to be light-hearted, dick.
- astatine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Really? Heck, it must've been difficult nailing a tortoise to a plank.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12warmonger and rcook just dated themselves as slightly younger than Harriet.
- dallen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I'm pretty sure most reasonable people would realize that is not Charles Darwin. If I call myself Leonardo Da Vinci would you think I was him?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11@cazabam: 1st of all, he's canadian. 2nd of all, it's still rude.
- johnnybravoh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10An unreported fact:
Unfortunately for Harriet, her death was characteristicly slow. - Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7She lived at Australia Zoo, which Irwin works at (actually, I think he owns it).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Industrial nail-gun. No worries. :)
- opethlike, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Tell the Flying Spaghetti Monster I said "HI" Harriet.
- Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9She just had a birthday, too.
Sigh. Things like this make me feel bad. :( - djdresden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well, at least more people knew about her and her amazing story before she died thanks to Digg.
It's sad, but you can't say she didn't live a full life. RIP Harriet - Ryaaan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5A very cool picture of Harriet and a little girl: http://prettyedy.livejournal.com/43531.html
- shane1337, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8well, now they can cut her open and count the rings
- novivo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4how do they know she's dead?
- mikeyeah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you are bored right now here is something you can do. Scroll up and count how many times someone mentions "Wasn't there an article about this last week" or something close to that nature. I call it the "digg effect echo."
Or if your still bored you can just bury me up to my neck. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11It's time for SOUP!
- CopyNinja, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Steve Irwin is the man, she probably had a great last few years.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Let us hold our hands and have a moment of silence for our friend Harriet the turtle. *silence*
- mbthompson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Why do I get the feeling I'm being trolled by some 12 year old with multiple accounts just so he can mod me down? Geez grow up.
- rcook, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7@capran: Gilligan's Island reference ...
- angelp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6cazabam said: "It still amuses me how many Americans (well, USAnians) think that tortoises and turtles are the same thing."
It amazes me how so many non-Americans (well, nonUSAnians) find such little petty things to nitpick on. - Flankk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Opposed to other tortises having stressful lives? I would live to 200 if my life consisted of crawling on my belly and peddling around in a pond.
- wolfkeeper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4If only the good die young, that must have been one evil mofo tortoise!
- johnnyrotten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was fortunate enough to get to see her almost exactly a year ago. Steve Irwin might be a goof, but he runs a very nice zoo.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Man that sucks :( Wasn't there an article on digg recently about her? They said was probably going to live a lot longer... guess not.
Rest in piece, Harriet... - mrinternet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3oh my god DID THEY PUT YOUR WIFE IN A CAGE !!??
- speedmaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Very sad, I liked her. ;-(
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Um, she wasn't captured by Charles Darwin. She was taken from an island he never visited.
- teahugger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A few months ago, a 250yr old Tortoise died:
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060324_ap_tortoise_death.html - pathfindertech, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Now that is funny. Probably doesn't age as well as wine though.
- blueangel5383, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it's still kinda sad that she never had a normal tortoise life..... just used in various ways....... =(
- DenZ88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's an amazing age to live up to-- she must've lived a very stress free life.
- h4lofourt33n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Aww, that's too bad. Did she have any children?
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