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Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 03:02:20 2020 No.11971407 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11971425 >>11971434 >>11971446 >>11971504 >>11971590 >>11971911 >>11972126

Has anyone carbon dated a tree this big?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 03:11:27 No.11971425 Report

Quoted By: >>11971466 >>11971956

>>11971407
No because we cut them all down

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 03:14:47 No.11971434 Report

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>>11971407
Just count the rings. I've got a stump table with the rings marked at important years, it was "born" in 1726 and was cut down in 1997.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 03:20:47 No.11971446 Report

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>>11971407
It's amazing two guys cut that down with a modified crosscut saw. But I would still rather see it standing tall and proud.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 03:33:12 No.11971466 Report

Quoted By: >>11971519 >>11973822

>>11971446
>>11971434
>>11971425
Not my point.

I'm saying to prove carbon dating accurate, the radiometric reading should be roughly the same as the amount of rings

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 03:50:26 No.11971502 Report

Quoted By: >>11973729

This is the “Mark Twain” tree. You can see a slice of it at the Museums of Natural History in New York City and London. You can even line up the slice with OPs pic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 03:51:19 No.11971504 Report

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>>11971407
how do we bring these back bros

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 03:58:16 No.11971512 Report

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>>11971504
Wouldn't be that difficult, it looks like it's just 2 large crosscut saws just brazed together. The challenge would be cutting down these trees without getting caught, but General Sherman is supposedly "secret" so maybe there isn't any active security/surveillance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 04:00:22 No.11971516 Report

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>>11971512
Sorry Hyperion is the secret tree, General Sherman is not

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Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 04:01:51 No.11971519 Report

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>>11971466
So just count the rings you mouthbreather

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 04:33:46 No.11971590 Report

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>>11971407
Maybe not that big but redwood trees were the first objects to be carbon tested since their rings verify their age. Since the rings stop absorbing carbon after they set, each ring can be individually dated as well to further verify accuracy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 04:44:26 No.11971615 Report

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>>11971504
There's already some redwood tree projects underway it's just going to take a few hundred years for big boys to emerge again

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 07:22:23 No.11971845 Report

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>>11971519
nice comprehension dipshit. dumb cunts like you are the reason /a/ does better math than /sci/.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 08:15:55 No.11971911 Report

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>>11971407

Did people back then not have any foresight? Like, did they not think "man, this is the biggest tree I have ever seen anywhere in the world. Instead of leaving it be and cutting other ones, I'll cut down the biggest in the world!"

Human intelligence hasn't really changed much (just access to information has), so you think people back then would have been able to reason that cutting down something so monumentous would be stupid.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 08:21:23 No.11971930 Report

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>>11971911
Why would it be stupid?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 08:25:26 No.11971940 Report

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>>11971911
trees grow back.
new things get built in factories every day.
new species evolve and go extinct.
tectonic plates subduct, melt, and rise to the surface again.
there will be stars, plants, and life no matter what we do.
humans will never make a meaningful impact on the universe. getting upset because a few of them cut down a tree or two is pointless.
getting attached to mear things just because they're old or unique is pointless.

fuck namefags

fuck namefags Tue 04 Aug 2020 08:34:16 No.11971956 Report

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>>11971425
we still have the timber

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 09:05:58 No.11972028 Report

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yes it's 6000 years old

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 09:21:10 No.11972045 Report

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>>11971911
>NO YOU CAN'T USE NATURAL RESOURCES

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 10:01:23 No.11972114 Report

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>>11971512
You don't have to cut them down asshole. Cores are drilled out of them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 10:08:23 No.11972126 Report

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>>11971407
Carbon dating would be useless since the tree different carbon from different time periods.
The carbon would be the date from the time it was cut down.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 10:21:37 No.11972148 Report

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>>11971911
Back then men were the conquerors of the nature who took what they can, not the modern sissy manlets willingly fucking themselves over to tiptoe around every little thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 10:46:31 No.11972184 Report

Quoted By: >>11972276 >>11972297 >>11972304

I must just be cut from a different cloth.
I could never cut down a tree like that, even if I had the power to do so.
I question the hearts of men who would do such a thing. They must be totally empty.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 11:39:06 No.11972276 Report

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>>11972184
i'll bet they went home and impregnated thier wives for the seventh time that night

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 11:50:51 No.11972297 Report

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>>11972184
If only there were more good people like you in the world bro.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 11:53:22 No.11972304 Report

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>>11972184
These trees didn’t become known to science and the general public until 1852. There was an immediate struggle between those who wanted to preserve them and those who wanted to make a quick buck.

https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/science/hartesveldt/chap1.htm

Legal protection came in 1864. About 1/3 of the forests had already been lost.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 14:11:43 No.11972561 Report

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>>11971590
How many rings did the Redwood tree have.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 14:56:18 No.11972644 Report

Quoted By: >>11972888

>>11971940
Good point anon. Your post made me change my mind about this. When I saw the picture I thought how fucked up it is that they destroyed that tree, but now I realize it doesn’t matter at all. As a matter of fact, I think I will go rape and kill as many children and infant as possible. It doesn’t acfually make any difference. wtf I’m a nihilist now.

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Newfag Tue 04 Aug 2020 16:25:32 No.11972888 Report

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>>11972644

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Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 17:29:21 No.11973135 Report

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>>11972888
he's unironically right though

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 20:41:44 No.11973729 Report

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>>11971502
Thanks for info. I'm in London and I just got my ticket, will see it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2020 21:05:32 No.11973822 Report

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>>11971466
I'm pretty sure carbon dating is calibrated that way.

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