[Red Badger]

That's older than HT.......Please, no pics!..............

[Red Badger]

Timber!...................................

[Merta]

Was it called The Al Gore?

[SolidWood]

That’s one really solid wood!

[2banana]

Have the spruces actually migrated here during the Ice Age as seeds from the east 1,000 kilometres over the inland ice that that then covered Scandinavia?

You mean it survived GLOBAL WARMING?

[Joe 6-pack]

I'm guessing this is entirely credible since the Swedish long ago discovered how to make furniture without the need for real wood.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“World’s oldest living tree discovered in Sweden”

“... Upon being informed that it was living in Sweden, the tree immediately applied for monthly state welfare payments and a free apartment.”

[trumandogz]

How on earth could a tree be older than the earth itself?

[TRY ONE]

It’s a shame they had ot cut it down to count its rings! :-)

[theFIRMbss]

>World's oldest living tree discovered in Sweden

The Bikini Team is from there because they have so much good old wood . . .

[Brilliant]

“The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by growing between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time.”

That’s a lie. Everyone knows that the climate just started changing in 2001, right after Bush was sworn in.

[CodeToad]

If Albore wouldn’t stand so still they wouldn’t be taking core samples.

[NewJerseyJoe]

They forgot the obligatory scare:
"But now, the tree's continued existence is in danger, due to manmade global warming and rising sea levels"

/sarc

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

“My research indicates that spruces have spent winters in places west or southwest of Norway”

You would think that the remarkable part of the story is that the spuces tend to migrate to Norway in the winter !?!

[Aquinasfan]

Although summers have been colder over the past 10,000 years, these trees have survived harsh weather conditions due to their ability to push out another trunk as the other one died.

What fascinates me about trees is their ability to act as a coherent whole, rather than as an agglomeration of discrete parts. Trees lack a brain or control system comparable to a nervous system in mammals. So what drives the "ability to push out another trunk as the other one died"?

I've also noticed an interesting phenomenon in trees when a new house lot is carved out of the woods. A tree that was formerly surrounded by other trees is left standing alone. Over the course of several years the tree's upper branches will die off, while the tree shoots out lower branches. It takes less energy to pump water half-way up the tree, so this phenomena makes sense for the health of the tree as a whole. But how does this mechanism work? How do scientists explain this phenomenon?

These phenomena seem to me to be evidence of the vegatative form or " vegatative soul."

[ThePythonicCow]

This looks to be a picture of it, from sciencedaily.com.

[edcoil]

“9,550 year old spruce ... with the dramatic climate changes over time.”

Not possible, the world has told us America causes global climate changes.

[TRY ONE]

“The world's oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in .... Sweden”

Well, in Sweden, the sun does not go down in the summer and the sun does not appear in the winter. Sooooo, From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 in Sweden, it's like 3 years already!

Therefore a 9,550 year old tree in Sweden would only be 3,183 years old in the US!

[stuartcr]

Sounds Entish

[Andonius_99]

Sweden???

[ASA Vet]

posted 4 days ago by Bill