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World's 'Oldest' Tree Able to Reveal Planet's Secrets
Hurriyet Daily news ^ | April 24 2023

Posted on 04/24/2023 5:11:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway

In a forest in southern Chile, a giant tree has survived for thousands of years and is in the process of being recognized as the oldest in the world.

Known as the “Great Grandfather,” the trunk of this tree measuring 4 meters in diameter and 28 meters tall is also believed to contain scientific information that could shed light on how the planet has adapted to climatic changes.

Believed to be more than 5,000 years old, it is on the brink of replacing Methuselah, a 4,850-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine found in California in the United States, as the oldest tree on the planet. “It’s a survivor, there are no others that have had the opportunity to live so long,” said Antonio Lara, a researcher at Austral University.The Great Grandfather lies on the edge of a ravine in a forest in the southern Los Rios region, 800 kilometers to the south of the capital Santiago. It is a Fitzroya cupressoides, a type of cypress tree that is endemic to the south of the continent.

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TOPICS: History; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: 300manyearsoflabor; ancienttree; bristleconepine; catastrophism; chilebristlecone; cypress; euellgibbons; godsgravesglyphs; hattiesshack; methuselah; noahsmalarkey; oldesttree; pinetree; tree
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1 posted on 04/24/2023 5:11:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

End the doubt. Cut it down and count the rings.


2 posted on 04/24/2023 5:13:51 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: nickcarraway

I saw that movie. It was named Avatar.


3 posted on 04/24/2023 5:13:56 PM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: nickcarraway

I am sure that if the tree could talk, it would tell us they we are killing the planet with our internal combustion engines. Algore is the only one who can save us all.


4 posted on 04/24/2023 5:14:32 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: nickcarraway

I think the meant its thick bark, not the trunk.


5 posted on 04/24/2023 5:16:02 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: PAR35

Dont have to cut it down.

Drill a core sample.


6 posted on 04/24/2023 5:18:11 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: zeestephen

Ping


7 posted on 04/24/2023 5:19:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

In the Sandia’s (east of Albuquerque) there are the “medallion trees”. Ponderosa pines that an unknown person took small cores and counted the rings. They then plugged the core hole and applied a medallion with a historical event that occurred the year it germinated.

Kind of cool to see a ponderosa of moderate size with a medallion saying “First performance of Hamlet”.


8 posted on 04/24/2023 5:19:49 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: PAR35

You could just take a core. No need to cut it down


9 posted on 04/24/2023 5:20:00 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: SauronOfMordor

See my #8. There’ probably 50 of these trees, and folks love finding them.


10 posted on 04/24/2023 5:21:02 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Imagine finding one labeled “Last honest Democrat was born”?


11 posted on 04/24/2023 5:37:07 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: crusty old prospector

“I am sure that if the tree could talk, it would tell us they we are killing the planet with our internal combustion engines. Algore is the only one who can save us all”.

And AI could interpret tree language. “Bad humans killing the earth”.


12 posted on 04/24/2023 5:42:59 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: nickcarraway

Amazing, five thosand year old treees but the earth is supposedly billions of years old and man has been around for a few hundred million. Notice any incongruity here?


13 posted on 04/24/2023 5:45:25 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: nickcarraway

A few years ago I went to see “The Senator” in Florida.It’s said to have been about 3,000 years old...before it was killed by a junkie who set it on fire.


14 posted on 04/24/2023 5:47:25 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: nickcarraway

The oldest tree in the world was a Bristlecone Pine in CA...it was living well until it was killed by none other than Michael Mann....


15 posted on 04/24/2023 5:49:12 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: Rurudyne

I don’t think they sample saplings.


16 posted on 04/24/2023 5:49:59 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: rottndog

Michael Mann the big budget fil director?


17 posted on 04/24/2023 5:51:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I think you’re thinking of Michael Moore....


18 posted on 04/24/2023 5:55:51 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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Michael Moore makes documentaries. Michael Mann made movies like Miami Vice and The Insider. I've never seen a movie made by either.
19 posted on 04/24/2023 5:58:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Shortly after WWII, a valley in China contained 5 Metasequoia trees. They were evident from the fossil record, but thought extinct for millions of years. Somehow, and no locals know how, three ended up in a yard in our small town. They reach 200 feet. One was about 100 feet with a 10 foot trunk.


20 posted on 04/24/2023 5:59:06 PM PDT by healy61 (.)
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