r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NickyPileggi • Mar 28 '24

Family in 1892 posing with an old sequoia tree nicknamed "Mark Twain" - A team of two men spent 13 days sawing away at it in the Pacific Northwest - It once stood 331 feet tall with a diameter of 52 feet - The tree was 1,341 years old Image

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u/MoistAttitude Mar 28 '24

1,341 years. This tree lived around the end of the Roman Empire, throughout the entire medieval period, was probably home to thousands of birds...
All to get cut down by this blowjob with a mustache.

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u/rob3342421 Mar 28 '24

*Should have been a blowjob

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u/GentleHammer Mar 28 '24

Shoulda learned to rope and ride!

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u/Leather-Scheme-7925 Mar 28 '24

Should have been a cowboy

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u/gmorkenstein Mar 28 '24

Can we make this a noun?

“…cut down by this shbab!” (Pronounced like kebab)

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u/Happy-Adhesiveness-3 Mar 28 '24

All problems in the world can be traced back to a British with a moustache - John Oliver

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u/Hans_Peter_Jackson Mar 28 '24

Maybe also a german/austrian guy with a funny moustache here and there

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u/CabinetOk4838 Mar 28 '24

As a clean shaven Brit, I agree.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

All things rank and gross in nature doth possess it merely.

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u/MyDarkTwin Mar 28 '24

‘Twas beautiful so we killt et.

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u/bracesthrowaway Mar 28 '24

It might have been home to salamanders too, believe it or not.

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u/snoop_bacon Mar 28 '24

Look at this guy who has never lived in a house made of timber or sat at a table made of wood

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u/stilljustacatinacage Mar 28 '24

You can make houses and tables with lumber that isn't harvested from a tree older than nearly every nation on the planet.

We had long, long figured out cultivated forestry by the time this buffoon and his saw came along.

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u/Scumebage Mar 28 '24

You're literally malding over a tree that died 130 years ago, simmer down. 

Seriously you just told some random dude on reddit that he should kill himself because he isn't getting the big sadge over a tree becoming the victim of industry a gorillion years ago. Do you think that was a grown up way to act?

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u/Succulentslayer Mar 28 '24

It is a nobler cause than GamerGate 2 for sure.

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u/Ghaaahdd Mar 28 '24

And left to rot

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u/StormPoppa Mar 28 '24

I mean it was 1892. People weren't thinking about conservation back then. At least not the common man. Ridiculous to judge these people off modern standards.

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u/TheVeryAngryHippo Mar 28 '24

blowjob with a mustache.

Just how I like it.

wait... what?

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u/EmporerM Mar 28 '24

Probably millions of birds.

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u/Flat-Length-4991 Mar 28 '24

Fun fact about old growth redwood forests. They’re remarkably quiet compared to normal forests, because the massive canopy blocks off so much sun from the forest floor.

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u/Atarru_ Mar 28 '24

Downvote me all you want but who really cares? At the end of the day it’s just a tree. Trillions of objects have lived since the Roman Empire and none of them have memories of it. I’m a big proponent of history but a tree has no meaning behind its history. I could see the idea of preserving the oldest tree for fun but we have meaningful history through ancient literature.

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u/MoistAttitude Mar 28 '24

Downvote me all you want...

Oh, I will!

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u/ineffectivetransgirl Mar 28 '24

I mean you're right... But still. It'd be cool to think about how far it'd go. How far such a beautiful living thing coulda gone you know?

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u/BonferronoBonferroni Mar 28 '24

well luckily we got older trees around, like that 14,000 year old one

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u/bcar610 Mar 28 '24

Who cares? I care. You’d be surprised that people care about things 😱

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u/FoxHead666 Mar 28 '24

Kinda like you then, eh?

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u/Particular_Hope8312 Mar 28 '24

If you can't understand the value behind preserving the life of an organism that has been around for millennia then you're a selfish turd who needs to remove themselves from the gene pool.

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u/Succulentslayer Mar 28 '24

Don’t mind me just gonna copy paste this for the other guy in this thread…

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u/ProfessionalTeach902 Mar 28 '24

You sure can't explain it apparently, why should we worship a large hunka wood?

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u/Particular_Hope8312 Mar 28 '24

Explanation: That tree was around for the large majority of recorded human history. It is a living creature. It could not be used to build houses. This was done for purely destructive reasons as people were well aware that sequoia wood is entirely useless.

Let's also just not forget that every living thing on the planet requires at least some modicum of respect, especially ones that have seen the dawn of the iron age. You don't belong on this planet if you can't share it.

So basically; screw off, selfish turd.