http://gizmodo.com/5889581/meth-addict-acc...fth+oldest-tree

i don't know if it's because ive been drinking since 11am, but this made me laugh out loud enough that peopel at the airport were starting to stare. its lol on so many levels

heard about the tree when it happened

lol @ circumstances

how do they know that it was 5th oldest tree? who sets this titles?
i hate ppl who self proclaim them selfs into smth they are clearly

they know because it used to be a big fucking tree

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Senator_(tree)

we can figure these things out in the united states

and we havent had our entire continent bombed so theres some pretty old stuff

you must be a virgin

obligatory "gizmodo's format is horrible" comment

also, 5th oldest known tree, the known is implied because ofc we have clearly documented every tree on earth

how do you have the facts to make that statement

i just planted a tree in my back yard and its never been documented

Heard of science?

sure, tell me the method that you imply that was used to determine that tree age
and no, size of the tree does clearly matter, nether tree rings, sure they matter for trees in age 200 to 500 years old, but clearly for real old ones
for instance, i now there is a olive tree garden in outskirts of Jerusalem where scientists say most of the trees have a big probability that they lived same time jesus did
so i doubt there was a tree on a continent with only half millennium of written history older trees than those in israel

Chronology Building

The climatic changes or patterns in specific geographic areas can be traced by the study of old living trees. Samples taken from trees of unknown age can then be studied for matches with samples from trees with known sequences of growth. Using this process, when the rings "match" or are found to be overlapping in age, we are able to "see" even further back in time.
An example of this occurred in the 1920's when expeditions led by Douglass dated Pueblo Bonito, a prehistoric native American settlement in New Mexico. By analyzing the timbers used in its construction, they determined its existence 800 years before Columbus.
A chronology (arrangement of events in time) can be made by comparing different samples. Using a boring tool, a long slender core sample about .423 centimeters in diameter is extracted.

Lets say the sample was taken from a standing 4,000 year-old (but long dead) bristlecone. Its outer growth rings were compared with the inner rings of a living tree. If a pattern of individual ring widths in the two samples prove to be identical at some point, we can carry dating further into the past. With this method of matching overlapping patterns found in different wood samples, bristlecone chronologies have been established almost 9,000 years into the past.

youve found one of the 4 older than this one then. keep up the good work!

it would still be the 5th oldest dumbass

thanks for taking the extra second to get the point

i have to be honest though. your ability to completely miss the point of most things i say is astonishing.

LOL

carbon 14 testing can tell the age of organics

This post has been edited by blackjack21 on Fri - Mar 2 2012 - 11:32:00

of things that died so many years ago

yep

how does it apply to trees that are still living