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It is actually three treellion. Even nature likes a terrible pun.
tree trillion
Tree fiddy and change.
List of individual trees
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#82And here I was excited to see disjoint subtrees of Wikipedia's articles.
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#83Humans, man. The Tree of Ténéré was a solitary acacia that was once considered the most isolated tree on Earth. It was a landmark on caravan routes through the Ténéré region of the Sahara Desert in northeast Niger, so well known that it and the Lost Tree to the north are the only trees to be shown on a map at a scale of 1:4,000,000. The tree is estimated to have existed for approximately 300 years until it was knocke…
What I find funny is how the drunk driver was able to hit the only obstacle in sight in the middle of an empty desert.
Might’ve been because of this type of thing:
> Target fixation is an attentional phenomenon observed in humans in which an individual becomes so focused on an observed object (be it a target or hazard) that they inadvertently increase their risk of colliding with the object.
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#84Delighted to see my local one in there, with a description reading like it was written by Douglas Adams. “The Hungry Tree is an otherwise unremarkable specimen of the London plane, which has become known for having partially consumed a nearby park bench.”
When I saw the name of that one, I immediately though of the Kite Eating Tree[1].
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#85So sad that the Sycamore Gap Tree is listed as "historical" because of those two idiots. I'm glad they're in jail.
Also, why isn't the Whomping Willow in there somewhere? They should create a new sub-category for "Fictional" trees.
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My dumb butt thought it was gonna be a list of every tree in the world, all eight gazillion of them
I did a search, there are an estimated 3 trillion trees in the world; somehow that's much fewer than I expected.
Well there was probably a lot more a few hundred years ago.
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#87Humans, man. The Tree of Ténéré was a solitary acacia that was once considered the most isolated tree on Earth. It was a landmark on caravan routes through the Ténéré region of the Sahara Desert in northeast Niger, so well known that it and the Lost Tree to the north are the only trees to be shown on a map at a scale of 1:4,000,000. The tree is estimated to have existed for approximately 300 years until it was knocke…
forget 300 year old trees... the Californians cut down sequoia trees that were probably up to 6000 years old. The oldest current one alive is estimated to be only 3200 years old. On a scale of atrocities humans have committed, I can't really think of anything that is more atrocious than the felling of those sequoias that were at the very least as old as the oldest known human civilization. 6000+ years ... poof gone,…
No wonder the location of the oldest tree on Earth is kept secret...
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
"It’s Wikipedia. Make the change you want to see in the page." If it allows you to edit it in the first place or isn't reverted within five minutes.
They have strict rules, but I’ve had no issues editing articles after my first error. It’s certainly not like posting an answer on Stack Overflow, where you will be downvoted and flamed for a correct-but-suboptimal answer.
Most of the time when I try to edit anything, I get a message telling me I am blocked. I am never blocked because of anything I have done but because my shared IP is. It is not something "anyone can edit" as they claim.
I do not wish to have a named account, because I had to leave one after an admin started stalking me on it. I never wanted my Wikipedia editing to be about me, but about the content.
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#89So sad that the Sycamore Gap Tree is listed as "historical" because of those two idiots. I'm glad they're in jail. Also, why isn't the Whomping Willow in there somewhere? They should create a new sub-category for "Fictional" trees.
> new sub-category for "Fictional" trees
You could add it to this section:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_trees#Mytho...
But this looks more appropriate:
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The term "animal" refers to non-human creatures.
Not when I use the word. Animals are the big creatures that move around. Guess I'm just a preschooler.
People confuse biological science with language, when they are not the same.
Yes, biologically we are animals (and some people behave like them — joke), but humans have used this term to differentiate us from other creatures.
We are very similar to chimpanzees genetically, and people keep bringing this up but we are very different to them in some ways.