[DManA]

A graduate student in the 60’s was studying Bristle Cone pines. Got his very expensive coring bit stuck so he cut the tree down. Turns out it was 5000 years old, oldest anyone had ever found till then.

Kinda ruined the poor guy’s life.

[Scrambler Bob]

Hmmmm

I wonder how old bo really is?

[GeronL]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_%28tree%29

There’s a wiki page for that