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- diggdowner, on 04/12/2008, -7/+91Nice... this tree is 2,000 years older than the earth.
/suck it fundies - Hobbes24, on 04/12/2008, -1/+48...it seems to me that this type of story would almost have to have pictures...
- inactive, on 04/12/2008, -0/+26It's the Great Deku Tree!
- inactive, on 04/12/2008, -8/+32"God put it there to test our faith"
- innocentsinner, on 04/12/2008, -1/+18Probably no pictures in order to prevent people from ***** with it. Same deal with the bristlecone pine mentioned in the article.
- motafett, on 04/12/2008, -3/+20Well I guess that whole the earth is 6,000 years old thing will be even harder to argue now.
- Kabloink, on 04/12/2008, -0/+15I think the title should be changed to the "world's oldest root system has been found". The actual trees growing from the root system are only a few hundred years old.
- mark076h, on 04/12/2008, -0/+14pics?
- MixMastaKooz, on 04/12/2008, -0/+14If you've read the article, it notes that the trees you see above ground actually have a high turnover rate...for old trees. So every hundred to three hundred years, the above ground component dies: it's the root system's genetic's that is thousands of years old. I got kinda tripped up by that last part, and I don't think it was sufficiently explained in the article. I'm still trying to grapple with the concept because they do not outright say the trees' roots are x,000 year's old.
- shadeOfGrey, on 04/12/2008, -2/+13He's a tricky one he is.
"You're not gonna get me that easy God!" - tim710, on 04/12/2008, -0/+10How do you take a screenshot of a tree?
- Fazaman, on 04/12/2008, -1/+10Am I the only one who read that as ''World’s oldest tree’ discovered in Dalaran'??
- killbert24, on 04/12/2008, -4/+13It is amazing to think something could have been alive so long. Could it travel, it would have been able to see so many amazing things such as Jesus Christ, the Roman Empire, the Egyptians, etc. etc.
And if they could talk it would be proof for so many things. I say we isolate the gene responsible for the long life spans and genetically engineer human DNA so we can live for thousands of years. - amdforever, on 04/12/2008, -0/+8Press 'print screen' when you're standing in front of the tree. Trees are pretty high-tech these days.
- inactive, on 04/12/2008, -1/+9Who said anything about the Bible? Or Christianity?
- ghm101, on 04/12/2008, -0/+8here is a pic,
http://www.apstas.com/Mt__Read_Huon_pine.html
oh and sorry it is from Tasmania, A stand of huon pine trees in Tasmania that are 10500 years old. Same sort of genetically identical vegetative reproduction as in the article. - DMDekoth, on 04/12/2008, -1/+8Except you would stop aging. Your hair would continue to grow, your sexual organs should be fine. If modified early enough, you would stay in your twenties possibly forever. Did you think we would be walking skeletons after about 200 years?
- inactive, on 04/12/2008, -0/+7Trees can't see
- inactive, on 04/12/2008, -0/+7its the mythical Yggdrasill
the Nordic tree of life
fantastic - Radar3D, on 04/12/2008, -0/+6Don't worry, the tree is protected by a giant purple dome.
- mstachiw, on 04/12/2008, -1/+7discovered in the tree was world's oldest cat who was eventually taken down by world's oldest fireman (actually invented fire!)
- lostngone, on 04/12/2008, -7/+12I bet those trees would make a really nice hard wood floor
- EricSchC1, on 04/12/2008, -0/+5adjective noun was adjective
/rolleyes - jessecooper, on 04/12/2008, -0/+5Leave the poor Ent alone.
- snafflepaffle, on 04/12/2008, -1/+5It's not an individual old tree. Read the article. It's an 8000 year old root system with trees that are a couple hundred years old or newer. New trees sprout from the root system but die after a while, leaving room for more new trees to sprout from the still-alive root system.
- themastersb, on 04/12/2008, -1/+5According to Christians it's older than the world itself.
- gravityboard, on 04/12/2008, -3/+7I read somewhere that scientists can use the rings of a tree to see climate trends through history because each year the bark forms a little differently. It would be cool to look back at how the climate has changed since the last Ice Age.
So long as they don't have to damage this treasure, of course.. - elfprince13, on 04/12/2008, -0/+4so we can all end up like the Face of Boe!!!
- goldfishey, on 04/13/2008, -0/+4god brought it with him, it was a potplant before! :)
/oh god yes, im being sarcastic! - EarlOfLade, on 04/12/2008, -1/+4@Bersy:
What's a "god" and where can I see one? - alenox, on 04/12/2008, -0/+3john mccain planted it when he was a kid
- Niightwitch, on 04/13/2008, -0/+3Everything has a life cycle yeah, but if you reach 4,000...6,000....8,000 years old you should be cut some slack.
- inactive, on 04/12/2008, -0/+3The mana tree... The source of all mana
- dougfir, on 04/12/2008, -0/+3I wish people would read the article. This is not the oldest tree ever found...it's the oldest ROOT system. And there are no doubt many other root systems just as old and likely older that haven't been dated. See this wiki article on clonal colonies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal_colony
For the oldest actual living tree in the world, you'd have to get out of Europe and go west...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(tree) - inactive, on 04/12/2008, -0/+3I bet your backwaters baseball cap would make a real nice toilet ladle dumbass.
- inactive, on 04/12/2008, -4/+7What was wrong with your ass to begin with? and how exactly do comments fix an ass?
- Barryke, on 04/12/2008, -1/+4not yet he has
- wiachy, on 04/12/2008, -1/+4bury this crap for not having a picture of this tree. ***** hate articles that have no pics of what its talking about.
- carterx, on 04/12/2008, -0/+3The only photo related article I could find was here:
""Scientists are reporting that a Swedish spruce tree similar to this one is now thought to be the world's oldest, at approximately 8,000 years.""
http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/media.cana ...
Found article here: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html ... - MattNF, on 04/12/2008, -0/+2What?
- ClevelandBrown, on 04/12/2008, -4/+6LALALALALALA, I can't hear you, LALALALALALALA
- pjsk8, on 04/13/2008, -1/+3That, or he stopped for 6 smoke breaks and never showed up for work afterwards.
- jgzman, on 04/13/2008, -0/+2That depends upon the way the DNA fragment in question works. 8,000 year old trees are a mite knobbly, most of the time. And look at Yoda. He lasted for 9,000 years, and I wouldn't say that he 'stopped aging.'
- exomni, on 04/13/2008, -0/+2King Clone Creosote Bush is 11,700 years old.
http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id ... - Oea420, on 04/12/2008, -0/+2Awesome. Plants achieving immortality through cloning...
Scary thought to see if this comes through to our kingdom :) - 4321234, on 04/12/2008, -0/+2In the northwest of B.C. and Alaska where the mighty spruce grows, they are all being killed by the spruce budworm. Log 'em while you can, boys! Either that, or quit putting out every forest fire. Everything has a life cycle.
- inactive, on 04/12/2008, -1/+3proof of idiots dying honorably?
- srfrogger, on 04/12/2008, -0/+2Let's hope they don't kill it like they did with the old oldest crustacean.
- alkajazz, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2The fossil record suggests a number that far exceeds 6,000 years.
- smspence, on 04/12/2008, -1/+3Stop with the acronyms. Let's please nip this one in the bud. We have enough acronyms like RTFA, GTFO, YMMV, etc. for internet speak. We don't need any more. If you have something to say, please just type it out.
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