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I thought this was an "Onion" headline, until I discovered it was real:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,306076,00.html

I should have expected it, I suppose; the oldest known tree, a little Nevada bristlecone pine 4900 years old, was killed -- deliberately! -- several decades ago by a researcher who deliberately cut it down just so he could determine its age by counting its rings. The national forest curator who gave him permission to do it caught hell afterwards from his superiors, but of course that didn't do the tree much good. The whole thing reminds me of one little kid's advice on how to determine whether your sweater is wool: "Hold it over a candle flame. If it burnt slowly, it was wool."

Trees are plants. Trees are not animals.

The article is talking about a clam though.

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That's dumb about the tree. They could have bored a small hole in it and counted the rings...

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That's dumb about the tree. They could have bored a small hole in it and counted the rings...

That's what they've done, on a bristlecone called "Methuselah", which was determined to be just under 4800 years old. In fact, the US Forest Service has intentionally kept Methuselah's location secret so some idiot doesn't try to go cut it down.

I thought sea anemones could live for a long time and the only reason they die is because of stupid humans messing something up.

I thought sea anemones could live for a long time and the only reason they die is because of stupid humans messing something up.

Wow...

i guess i was wrong. I could of swore i read some where that sea anemones could live up to like 500 years.
Heres a link for the oldest living animals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long-living_organisms
I find it amazing that the sea grass in the Mediteranean could be over 100,000 years old.

The article is talking about a clam though.

Exuse me. The link doesnt work for me at work.

What else was I supposed to think if the OP puts a link up and has a rant about trees?

Technically, sea anemones can live forever in that they could conceivably continue to bud off for eternity (living in the sense that the entirety of their genome was preserved in a continuous manner).

It was an 8.5 cm clam, and they wouldnt have known how old it was until it was collected and analysed.

so i dont think its justifiable to condemn them...

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Not as sto-pid as chopping up a Tutankhamun's remains

Quote: "Much of the body is broken into 18 pieces - damage sustained when British archaeologist Howard Carter...took it from its tomb and tried to pull off the famous golden mask..."

Haven't we come a long way since 1922?
By making mistakes we learn a better way to learn.




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