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Re: List of individual trees

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Post by bee_rider »

y-curious wrote: post #64
317070 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would it have been stopped? I don't see anything non-factual, and I regularly pass by that tree. It is well known and referenced [1]. [1] https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/12/07/hampstead-heaths-...

How does this work, practically, since it’s so notorious? Is there a queue of dudes waiting to get access to this “private” tree?

I wonder if it has been ruined by becoming well known.

It is sort of funny—based on the Wikipedia they put up notices to stop people from having sex there, which didn’t work. They should have advertised it instead, maybe, the surest way of ruining something niche is to let everybody know about it.

Re: List of individual trees

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Post by bee_rider »

esperent wrote: post #49
anotherblue wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wikipedia is not censored.

No, but editors there are quite notorious for lacking a sense of humor. I'm not surprised it's listed, I'm surprised that particular euphemistic description remains.

What’s the euphemism? I think people were literally having sex on it, as described in the article.

Re: List of individual trees

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Post by b00ty4breakfast »

hopelite wrote: post #80
rhplus wrote: post #68

Humans, 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,…

>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

You sure about? You sure you don't wanna think about that one a little longer? Because I can think of a few from just the last few hundred years

Re: List of individual trees

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Post by moi2388 »

sph wrote: post #38
moi2388 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a map of all trees in the Netherlands https://boomregister.nl/overzichtskaart-van-de-bomen-in-nede...

I loathe these stupid widgets that show a blank map as soon as you zoom out a little (past the 1000m scale in this case). How can you fail so hard at your only job?

Well, there are a lot of trees. If you want you can interpret grey as green as that’s what you would see zoomed out?

Re: List of individual trees

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Post by terribleidea »

jihadjihad wrote: post #75
rhplus wrote: post #68

Humans, 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…

And then there's the Senator Tree [0], estimated to be more than ten times older (~3500 years), which was "killed when a meth addict started a garbage fire inside the hollow trunk so she could see the crystal meth she was trying to smoke." 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Senator_(tree)

I got to see The Senator while it was still living. It didn't strike me as special at the time, now it makes me upset to think something so old died in my lifetime for such a stupid reason.

Re: List of individual trees

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Post by mordechai9000 »

NoSalt wrote: post #85

So 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.

I picked three North American trees arbitrarily, and they were all cut down, one by vandals, one by a protester who sounds a bit crazy, and one by a researcher.
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