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[–]cc1263 139 points140 points ago

Here i was born and there i died, it was just a moment for you

[–]urabunch0fassholes 25 points26 points ago

I have only seen that movie as a clip in 12 Monkeys.

[–]Arborgold 5 points6 points ago

Same, anybody know the name of that movie?

[–]ummonommu 25 points26 points ago

Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak in Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo".

Hitchcock's finest film, by most accounts.

[–]CoyoteStark 336 points337 points ago

Cut down a tree to put it in a tree museum.

[–]Qbertoh 93 points94 points ago

IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!

[–]MoroccoBotix 28 points29 points ago

Dr. Jones, sit down!

[–]PhylogenTree 19 points20 points ago

It is, the tree is from the American Museum of Natural History in New York: http://lh3.ggpht.com/_pVXrYi8s2rM/Sr-9gmOJLCI/AAAAAAAABy0/R3oedctlsuo/DSCF2814%5B2%5D.jpg

[–]bo87 17 points18 points ago

[–]LakeStClair 21 points22 points ago

My god, did you ever.

[–]Al-Dunya 5 points6 points ago

Sweet jesus, please tell me you now shave and wear proper attire.

[–]bo87 5 points6 points ago

I do.

[–]zhimakaimen 7 points8 points ago

So do you!

[–]TCsnowdream 2 points3 points ago

Here's your ticket. Welcome to the tombs.

[–]hammertym 0 points1 point ago

I'd argue it belongs where it started growing 1500 years ago.

If it died of natural causes, aids or cancer then put it in a museum for school kids to see so they know what needs protecting>IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!

IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!

[–]dja0794 132 points133 points ago

Charge the people a dollar and a half to see them.

[–]treecosy 59 points60 points ago

Oh now now, don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you got till it's gone.

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[–]controllerhead 32 points33 points ago

OOOOOOOOHHHH BAP BAP BAP

[–]TCsnowdream 32 points33 points ago

OOOOOOOOHHHH BAP BAP BAP

[–]the5souls 7 points8 points ago

It was only just a few months ago that I learned that THAT was what he was saying. Up until that point, I have always thought he said "They payed paradise and put up a f**king lot!" For years I was confused on how the song made it to air without any controversy...

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[–]aaronshook 8 points9 points ago

Counting Crows redid the song. It's not half bad.

[–]Handout 8 points9 points ago

There was a Pizza Hut! Now it's all covered with flowers!

[–]bsteeper 6 points7 points ago

Joni Mitchell never said that ಠ_ಠ

[–]Juddernaut 3 points4 points ago

You got it, you got it.

[–]lewko 5 points6 points ago

Tree Fiddy.

[–]fortrines 9 points10 points ago

All wars in history have been fought because of the same group of corrupt museum owners that made a chance discovery of a time machine, they've been rolling in our grandfathers' blood money.

[–]rollie82 2 points3 points ago

Charge the people a dollar and a half to see them?

[–]giraffebacon 224 points225 points ago

year 1000: Leif Ericson lands on American coast

year 1492: America discovered

heh

[–]D3adkl0wn 9 points10 points ago

to be fair, Leif "found" Newfoundland, or Vinland as he called it.. Colombus landed down in the central america area i believe.

[–]steps_on_lego 10 points11 points ago

In Denmark he is called Leif den Lykkelige (Leif the Happy)

[–]sniffo 6 points7 points ago

well that's not right, he was always referred to as Leifur heppni (the lucky).

[–]TheNativeRaver 13 points14 points ago

It should have said

Year 1492: Europeans invade America

[–]robm0n3y 5 points6 points ago

To be fair the invasion happened some time in the 1500s.

[–]ahalenia 21 points22 points ago

Thank you ... what were they thinking when they wrote that?

[–]DevestatingAttack 61 points62 points ago

The quote that I've read someone say on here is: "Columbus wasn't the first person to discover America - he was the last". Which is the most accurate way of describing what happened, I guess. The "new world" didn't exist until he came over.

[–]hazelpony2 16 points17 points ago

Dude was using america to hideout from his dad; he didn't know where the fuck he was, and he wasn't an explorer

[–]MRiley84 18 points19 points ago

Irish fishermen were fishing off the coast of North America for generations before Erickson and Columbus. They knew there was land there. Columbus knew it was there. Leif Erickson knew it was there. Nobody will ever know who was the first because it was way before recorded history.

I'm not sure why you think someone has to be an explorer to discover a new land. None of the explorers the schools teach about actually found anything new. They simply found what the locals have known for generations and didn't think anybody else would care about.

[–]maddzy 27 points28 points ago

5000km seems an awful long way to sail just to do some fishing...

[–]StringString 12 points13 points ago

I'd wager that the the actual discoverer of America was named Seeing-Trout or something along those lines.

[–]acone419 1 point2 points ago

Columbus did not know it was there. The whole point of his trip was that he emphatically believed he could go due west and hit Asia.

[–]XxmunkehxX 1 point2 points ago

I think they meant discovered by everyone

[–]TheSimonToUrGarfunkl 8 points9 points ago

or someone laid a claim to it. Not just a visitor

[–]WhatamIwaitingfor 4 points5 points ago

Where is that?

[–]guy_from_canada 28 points29 points ago

Around the corner from my house.

[–]the5souls 13 points14 points ago

If it falls, can it reach your house?

[–]igotnothinbro 4 points5 points ago

You mean his igloo?

Joking aside, judging by how massive that tree is it probably has roots buried and spanning hundreds of meters underground. I doubt it will fall any time sooner.

[–]RedHorseRainbows 5 points6 points ago

West of Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island.

I believe it's near the road which runs past Port Renfrew from Sooke, though I've never seen the particular tree myself. Some beautiful beaches, forests and vistas in the area.

[–]hiding_from_my_gf 7 points8 points ago

Canadia

[–]ch0och 21 points22 points ago

Is this at Rattlesnake Lake? My wife and I got married there.

[–]HoboAustin 5 points6 points ago

That picture is beautiful!

[–]ch0och 4 points5 points ago

thanks, my friend/wedding photographer took it.

[–]francostine 3 points4 points ago

This is why I will live my life in the Pacific northwest until I die.

[–]afatalcancer 20 points21 points ago

Can trees die of old age?

[–]Raspolozenje 134 points135 points ago

This is the answer from this /r/askscience thread. Long story short, the rot of the old trunk brings them down and prevents them from continuing to grow.

The answer, of course, is sort of. Like another poster said, old age is technically a secondary cause. What happens when a tree gets old is that it can't protect most of its inner heartwood or exterior. It certainly does not fight damage as well. Woody plants heal through CODIT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmentalization_of_decay_in_trees) in four steps, called walls. This is originally from a study where a guy named Shigo axed a bunch of trees and watched them heal. The four walls are explained in the wiki, but I'll simplify it. Wall 1: the tree prevents the wound/infection from spreading up and down the tree by blocking the transport tubes on either side of the wound. Wall 2: the tree prevents the wound/infection from spreading inward by building up a ring to act as a barrier Wall 3: the tree prevents the wound/infection from spreading circularly by sectioning the wound laterally. This basically means the wound/infection can't spread left or right. After wall 3, the would should look like a piece of pie. Wall 4: the new growth rings seal off the wound/infection so it doesn't spread outward, as the trunk grows. So in old age, the trees lose the ability to compartmentalize their wounds and eventually die. When wall 4 fails, you'll find a standing tree with a hollow inside- it's not uncommon to see them with leaves still. But unless wall 4 has succeeded just in the nick of time, the tree will die soon. Another way trees die is they girdle themselves because they get too big or something that is sucked up by the roots get caught in the xylem and phloem. Think of it as getting a piece of food caught in your throat. It slowly chokes and dies. Girdling is also a cause of death from insects and beavers. Most animals and insects only eat the newest part of the tree, where the xylem and phloem channels are active. This area, just under the bark, is called the cambium. When this cambium is eaten, the tree has no way to pass water/food/nutrients up and down the tree, essentially starving. When a tree is old enough for the bark to start falling off simple weathering is enough to damage the flow of food/water/nutrients and that is as close to dying of old age as a tree can get, in my experience. Lastly, some trees literally have no ceiling of growth (redwood, white pine) except for when the atmospheric pressure prevents the tree from getting its food/nutrients/water to the roots or leaves. In this case, they eventually die because they weaken and can no longer transport at a functional rate. As an edit: when trees get unhealthy, you'll see weird sucker sprouts along a normally bare stem, or lots of leaves in clusters in weird spots. source: professional ecologist

[–]Verdauga 10 points11 points ago

That was insightful and interesting, Thanks bud.

[–]-888- 8 points9 points ago

My funny story: I have a pine tree in my back yard that's in middle age and gets attacked by pine beetles periodically. The local tree trimmers said I need to cut it down for thousands of $. The local tree sprayers said they need to spray it for hundreds $ every year. Then I talked to the previous owner of my house, who said to just plug any beetle holes with a stick. I've been doing that successfully for 8 years now.

[–]CrazyOldRussian 484 points485 points ago

It's a damn shame people are allowed to cut down trees this old and beautiful. Considering they've been around longer than most bloodlines can even be traced.

[–]silent_p 530 points531 points ago

Don't be fooled. If given half a chance, that tree would kill you and everyone you care about.

[–]Mr_Keith_Maniac 203 points204 points ago

[–]imbutawaveto 28 points29 points ago

i laughed way too hard at that cow's eyes.

[–]gyarrrrr 23 points24 points ago

It is not possible to laugh too hard at Phil Hartman era Simpsons.

[–]PsychoM 135 points136 points ago

[–]Jumin 3 points4 points ago

If it were in Australia, I would not doubt it.

[–]Crim91 16 points17 points ago

What wood it do given a whole chance?

[–]CaptainVarious 25 points26 points ago

stick it up your ash and make you bark like a dogwood. face PALM!

[–]Humperdink_Fangboner 26 points27 points ago

Hey that's not fair you took like four puns man. There are children in Africa who can't even get one pun. That's just inconsiderate.

[–]CaptainVarious 11 points12 points ago

five

[–]Humperdink_Fangboner 8 points9 points ago

My God man, have you no heart? Where's Sarah McLaughlin?

[–]spoonybard326 14 points15 points ago

Let's not start a sappy pun thread

[–]the5souls 3 points4 points ago

Yeah, it's best if we just get to the root of it.

[–]RebelTactics 51 points52 points ago

Man you should see the S.American rainforest on Google Earth. There are vast, vast swaths of land where they build a road into, log it out along the road then build roads branching out and log those areas out.

[–]bravokiloromeo 73 points74 points ago

Ironically, it looks like a tree.

[–]sanimalp 25 points26 points ago

The best part is all the streets are named after the trees that used to be there.

[–]Yetanothertroll 4 points5 points ago

We do that everywhere. I've been down both Pinemeadow rd, and Ash Tree lane. Neither had either. Pinemeadow didn't have a single tree, or a meadow and the only greenage was around the sign. Ash Tree Lane had all its Ash Trees cut down after ash borers killed them off like a decade ago.

[–]ekomike 25 points26 points ago

I flew over Brazil at night once. The fires from the slashing and burning of the rainforest were enormous and went as far as the horizon line for nearly an hour of the flight. It was unspeakably sad.

[–]RebelTactics 35 points36 points ago

I hate to sound like a tree hugging hippie but this is sad. Nay, this is horrible. This'll mostly all be gone in 100 years and the planet will have lost millions of species from every branch of life all for the wood industries profit.

[–]freshyrocks 15 points16 points ago

In the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter. And I hate that.

[–]bc_arb 70 points71 points ago

The shame isn't that trees of this age are cut down, it's that forests are.

I work in the logging industry in BC, and you have no idea how common it is for tremendously old forests to be harvested. When corporate greed has nothing but a few hippies standing between it and bigger profits, who do you think wins? Too often its the corporations.

[–]dontfeedtheanimals 22 points23 points ago

Is there something about the existence of aged forests that I should value more than affordable products made of wood? Serious question.

[–]RedHorseRainbows 50 points51 points ago

Well, old growth forests host large amounts of bio-diverse plants and animals. It's not a particular tree you should value per se, it's the existence of the "old-growth temperate rainforest" ecosystem because of it's relative uniqueness in the world.

That said, old-growth is rarely cut down these days (granted, that's because there is not very much of it left--the old-growth that is left is also largely in parks or protected in some way).

Almost all needed forest products (minus the * really * primo beams) can be obtained easier these days from second-growth / managed forests.

[–]zeamaize 2 points3 points ago

Affordable products?

It's like you care more about poor people than rich trust fund hippies dude.

Get your priorities straight.

[–]Audioworm 35 points36 points ago

There may have been a legitimate reason. It may have been diseased, or damaged in a way that meant it was a danger. However, without the context of this particular tree I can't make any accurate statements.

Though, I agree with you entirely if the tree were cut down for no decent reason

[–]dsfox 28 points29 points ago

I'm guessing wood.

[–]VAPossum 17 points18 points ago

It was cut down in 1891; at the time, there wasn't a conservation movement. Most people didn't quite get that resources like this--organisms like redwoods--were finite, and that some should be preserved. They came around quickly, though, put in some regulations so they wouldn't go so fast, though they did still cut some down. Eventually, they made it illegal to cut down these big bad boys.

And I mostly know this because I have an article about it on my bulletin board that I tore out of Businessweek for the art.

[–]-888- 8 points9 points ago

They cut down the giant trees back then for entertainment alone.

http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=25135

The saddest case is the huge tree they chopped down so they could dance on its stump and use the felled trunk as a bowling alley. You cannot believe how big that stump is until you stand on it.

[–]BrianThePainter 10 points11 points ago

George, this is definitely the biggest tree in this forest. The people in town would surely be impressed with us if we were to cut it down and display it for all to see.... as a testament to our logging abilities!

[–]One_More_Comment 20 points21 points ago

We live in a greedy and rapidly growing world.

[–]knowses 13 points14 points ago

No one ever promised you a rose garden.

[–]NewCh 6 points7 points ago

Except like ancestors and every childhood dream.

[–]Golden-Calf 20 points21 points ago

The tree was cut down in 1891. Whoever cut it down is definitely dead, as are his children and likely his grandchildren too. It's not worth getting upset over.

[–]CrazyOldRussian 80 points81 points ago

Yet the tree would still be alive.

[–]03Titanium 64 points65 points ago

I wonder how long a tree is still alive after it is cut down. A man is sawing at its base. Things are happening to it, why is it getting dryer? it feels the force it's been fighting its whole life finally pulling it down. The warm feeling that helped it grow is no longer in direct contact. Lying on the ground wondering what it did wrong. The trees around it looking on silently, unable to help.

[–]ptgkbgte 41 points42 points ago

[–]TheNativeRaver 3 points4 points ago

Damn Italian wannabe.

[–]PopeOnMeth 6 points7 points ago

You should write a book

[–]utnow 16 points17 points ago

Trees have no brains, no nervous systems, and no mechanism by which to feel the sensation of 'weight.' My guess is that the narrative goes something like this:

[tree][vertical][horizontal][log][planks][house][scrap][paper][trash][nutrients][tree]

[–]ahalenia 7 points8 points ago

Unconvincing, after all we know that plants can blog.

[–]nayrlladnar 6 points7 points ago

I blame you for these tears.

[–]Delvil 4 points5 points ago

Ah, personification! The staple of (non)sense in the comprehensive book of (mis)understanding for people that don't know themselves, let alone the world around them.

"Well, it only makes sense to assume that all living things think and feel in the same way I do!"

[–]Langly- 10 points11 points ago

And people who cut down trees 2000 years ago may have cut down a tree that would still be alive today too. Still, wiping out forests isn't good.

[–]CrazyOldRussian 7 points8 points ago

There is a marginal difference between cutting down trees for a fire to survive and cutting them down so they can be printer paper or because it's just a big tree.

[–]notmynothername 18 points19 points ago

Nobody cuts down trees like that for printer paper. Trees cut down for paper were generally planted by companies who planned to cut them down for paper.

[–]Fumidor 20 points21 points ago

For the explicit reason that there are very few big trees left and they are horrifically expensive.

I'm from Oregon; 30 years ago something like 7% of the old growth forest was left and they kept cutting. Today there's something like 1-2% of the old growth forest, and there are people agitating to cut some of that too, because the wood is so desirable. Old growth wood is so valuable that condemned houses are torn apart for the timber in the rafters and joists, which can be milled into stunning flooring or furniture wood.

Back in the day, people pulled sturgeon and salmon out of the rivers by the truckload and threw it on the fields to fertilize crops. There was no sense of preciousness.

My next door neighbors owned a logging company. When I was a kid, the trucks would roll in to gas up with 2 giant logs on the truck. You should've heard them bitch when the "hippies" made them stop cutting the big trees and go for the second and third growth; that meant more cutting, more hauling and more man hours. 30 trees to two per truck. Plus, each new growth log can only be cut in specific ways to achieve looks or strength, while old logs could be cut by a monkey and still look good. So more man hours at the mill, and a weaker less dense product. So less $ per board foot.

Bottom line; if we still had lots of those trees, and we let people cut them down, they would be cut down, end of story. I love wood; logging is integral to having wood. But so is intelligent amd responsible resource management.

[–]pebohead 4 points5 points ago

Thank god I live near one of the few places on earth that still has a handful of old growth forest! Thank you Olympic National Park!

[–]BdrLen 3 points4 points ago

That's kind of a cool thought

[–]GET_THE_BROOMS 4 points5 points ago

Yea... it's pretty awesome the shit we can fuck up

[–]yourhonestredditlens 3 points4 points ago

I didn't even need to look at these comments to know that this (or something like it) would be the top comment.

If we all hate ourselves and our species that much, I'll help plan a Lemmings-style mass suicide. Just say the word.

[–]NotRichBarr 2 points3 points ago

Remember, the tree doesn't give a shit about any of those things that happened.

[–]thelcusi 13 points14 points ago

I am pretty sure this is in the Museum of Natural History in either DC or NYC. I remember seeing something similar a while ago...

[–]pcloadletter92 18 points19 points ago

The Mark Twain Tree (which is probably the tree in this pic, just many years ago) is in the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.

[–]Outlulz 6 points7 points ago

I remember seeing this tree. The Museum of Natural History is an amazing place, I've been there twice all day and didn't see everything.

[–]sylvanochrome 3 points4 points ago

The tree directly opposite this one in a display case at the AMNH is three times as old, but is rarely looked at. AMNH is also apparently the number 3 tourist attraction in the US.

[–]ThatGuyinaHat 9 points10 points ago

Just how do you cut down a tree that thick?

[–]SplatterQuillon 29 points30 points ago

[–]tosss 5 points6 points ago

I wonder how long it took two men to cut that down.

[–]zydeco 5 points6 points ago

Commonly called back then, a misery whip.

[–]sumoshart 20 points21 points ago

A very large cross-cut saw. Absolutely a 2-man operation.

[–]asianwaste 11 points12 points ago

[–]Gonza200 7 points8 points ago

"Marge can we trade places? These guys are making me nervous..."

[–]BdrLen 2 points3 points ago

How do you keep the blade from getting pinched as you get further through it?

[–]sumoshart 9 points10 points ago

With a huge tree like that, it's a little more than just applying the saw and working away at it. Chop a wedge out to make room for the saw, and block and wedge the cut open as they progress.

[–]TheGameIsFizzbin 11 points12 points ago

With careless disregard.

[–]Chanz 16 points17 points ago

Wow. I didn't even see the man standing there until I had read all of the text. Very humbling how old that beast is.

[–]Iamadinocopter 22 points23 points ago

cool, i'm a dendrochronologist

[–]Ardentfrost 28 points29 points ago

Cool, I'm a dendrochronologophiliac.

How you doin'?

[–]ProfessorMcHugeBalls 20 points21 points ago

Cool, I'm a necrodendropedophiliac.
Got any dead baby trees around?

[–]FashBug 2 points3 points ago

I'm pretty sure you're a dinocopter.

[–]JMMY90 7 points8 points ago

The best part about this photo is that you can easily see the sapwood. The light colored ring just under the bark was the only "active/alive" wood in that entire structure. The rest is all support. ...and it still spanned 80 years!

[–]heardlb 45 points46 points ago

I wish 1492 said: Columbus sailed the ocean blue

[–]Raspolozenje 3 points4 points ago

[–]Entangling_Toots 9 points10 points ago

My grandpa did this with a tree that he made into a table.

[–]reddKidney 24 points25 points ago

that must have been a gigantic ass table.

[–]jamishthegreat 13 points14 points ago

It was probably King Arthur's Round Table.

[–]SaltyBabe 13 points14 points ago

Ass tables are the best kind of tables.

[–]Petninja 0 points1 point ago

We call them chairs around these parts.

[–]Jacewon 34 points35 points ago

Trees are cool, they record world history up until 1776 then they exclusively record American history forever...

[–]D49A1D852468799CAC08 14 points15 points ago

Battle of Waterloo wasn't American.

[–]Sapanther 3 points4 points ago

I hope they were thinking, at the time, that there were plenty of tree's of such size and age. It kinda hurts my feels to think they may have known how rare it was and did it anyway.

[–]supergalactic 6 points7 points ago

2012: Tree replaced by cell phone tower disguised as tree

[–]MDZoidberg 8 points9 points ago

Why would you cut down a tree this magnificent. It should be a crime to do this.

[–]RedHorseRainbows 5 points6 points ago

This tree was cut down in 1891. The falling (or, at least, clear cut) of old-growth trees is no longer performed (in Western Canada).

[–]Goodykoontz 3 points4 points ago

Why must the good die young?

[–]CarTamer 1 point2 points ago

No one has lived long enough to know for sure. I bet a tree would live as long as it is being fed and no pests or disease are present, so forever is possible but not likely

[–]watchoutacat 3 points4 points ago

If we were to do that sort of graph now, it would be primarily based on when celebrities were born or died.

[–]EmoMagee 3 points4 points ago

There was a HUGE oak tree in my old elementary playground which they cut down because they thought kids could climb on it and get it hurt- bullshit, that tree was so mammoth it was impossible to climb for a small child. When they cut it down it turned out to be over 700 years old. I'm still mad about it to this day.

[–]LerithXanatos[!] 2 points3 points ago

Do trees really get that big? How magnificent!

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[–]Sarria22 5 points6 points ago

I am laughing so hard about this existing.

[–]AluminiumSandworm 2 points3 points ago

There's a log slice like this one in a state park near where I live, only it's first date is Jesus born... The tree was almost two thousand years old when it was felled in the nineteen hundreds. There are several trees bigger than that one still alive in the same park. I like trees.

[–]Theocritic 2 points3 points ago

Do any trees like that still exist?

[–]RedHorseRainbows 2 points3 points ago

Yes! There are isolated stands of old growth left around, at least in BC, Canada. I know of a couple trees at least this big west of Victoria, BC.

[–]John_Bowlsworth 3 points4 points ago

this tree is actually in the new york city museum of natural history... I was there today, I saw it.

[–]jaaj711 2 points3 points ago

That's really sad.

[–]tvisforbabyboomers 5 points6 points ago

"America discovered" lol

[–]Randomtask3000 4 points5 points ago

Funny coincidence; minute the tree came down, history stopped happening.

[–]Poffing 3 points4 points ago

Am I the only one who thinks it's a shame they cut it down?

[–]Redebbm 2 points3 points ago

There is one of these in Los Angeles at the Clifton's Cafeteria, though not nearly as big as this one.

[–]floweryleatherboy 2 points3 points ago

I had lunch with my corgi leaning against a tree alive with Aristotle.

[–]JAGarcia92 2 points3 points ago

Say Mohammed carved something in a tree like that around the time of his life, if we were to slice the tree layer by layer through his lifetime would the carving still be on the tree?

[–]krylon5[!] 2 points3 points ago

No, the carving would be on the outer bark and would eventually grow out or rub off. The heartwood and sapwood is deeper in the tree and that's where the rings are.

[–]hatesyolo01 -1 points0 points ago

'as I read' Probably one of the greatest (science related) things ever! 'gets to the end'

[–]toSTONEiGO 0 points1 point ago

Psychonauts, anyone?

[–]Chrisdena 2 points3 points ago

Poor Tree.

[–]Smithburg01 0 points1 point ago

It's the oldest tree in the world! LETS CUT IT DOWN!

[–]BryanTrexter 2 points3 points ago

A little mad that it was cut down after living through all of that. He didnt deserve it man.

[–]mikek3 5 points6 points ago

We suck.

[–]robbiedo 2 points3 points ago

1891 - Assholes cut tree down.

[–]Rexrgistyrannus 3 points4 points ago

1000- Leif Erickson lands on American Coast
1492- America discovered

Something is wrong here...

[–]BerateBirthers 3 points4 points ago

Yeah I'd say all those native Americans living here discovered it first

[–]Petninja 0 points1 point ago

Apple has the patent for it.

[–]antifolkhero -3 points-2 points ago

Whoever cut this down committed a crime against the Earth. It's amazing that people were selfish enough to cut down a 1500 year old true. Assholes.

[–]goofygoobarock 11 points12 points ago

Perhaps it had just died and they had to cut it down before it rotted? Maybe I'm just an optimist...

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[–]NotRichBarr 2 points3 points ago

It's a... tree...

[–]AluminiumSandworm 3 points4 points ago

But a beautiful one..

[–]SaltyBabe 5 points6 points ago

Many trees do have lifespans. This tree probably has a life span, but to quote Disney's Pocahontas "How high can the sycamore grow? If you cut it down, than you'll never know."

[–]antifolkhero 1 point2 points ago

It's a tree that is older than 15 generations of your family and would outlive the next 15 if some cunt hadn't chopped it down to make it into firewood. Can't you see what a fucking disgrace that is to the planet?

[–]Allaphon 2 points3 points ago

Lifespan of a Repost

title comnts points age /r/
Huge tree 146coms 584pts 10mos pics
Trying this again: Only 492 years later... 13coms 29pts 10mos WTF
A brief history of the world told by tree rings. 15coms 73pts 1yr pics

[–]cauth0n 0 points1 point ago

Wow. Absolutely astonishing!

[–]shah_reza 0 points1 point ago

I miss home. http://bit.ly/Nizuh3

[–]ryandaily 1 point2 points ago

Best 7th grade cheat sheet ever.

[–]thericebucket 1 point2 points ago

what kind of tree is it?

[–]jsmith212600 -1 points0 points ago

Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman...

[–]caj12377 -2 points-1 points ago

Early Americas Obsession to destroy things for display...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

That tree has seen some shit

[–]nplus 0 points1 point ago

Here are a couple photos of the cross section of a tree at Vancouver Island University. The photos aren't great - there was a lot of glare from the sun at the time.

[–]neanderhummus 0 points1 point ago

Reppin the 707, this tree I am linking, it was cut in 1943 and its older than the legalization of christianity in the roman empire, it is a trree for /r/atheism.

http://cache.virtualtourist.com/4/3289888-Cross_section_of_a_giant_redwood_tree_Fort_Bragg.jpg

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[–]Cytochrome_C 0 points1 point ago

I know you can't read it but this tree (http://member.melbpc.org.au/~trembath/pics/source/tastree2.jpg) was around before christ.

[–]Amarae 0 points1 point ago

I love how blunt that last note is. "Tree cut down."

[–]J1P3A -1 points0 points ago

[–]Entomologirl 1 point2 points ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_growth

Basically how all of this works with links to what everything you see in this photo is with a botanical vocabulary.

[–]GuitarWizard90 0 points1 point ago

I think I read that some if the Redwood trees in California are over 2000 years old. Julius Caesar was marching his armies across Europe when those trees were saplings....