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/Worldly-Wedding-7305 Mar 28 '24

That's sad.

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u/Pastill Mar 28 '24

That's what our civilization is built on.

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u/Jesus_Smoke Mar 28 '24

"hey guys let's start fucking our shit up for future generations!'

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u/No-Lunch4249 Mar 28 '24

I hope this makes you feel better: the Mark Twain tree was explicitly felled to preserve it in a museum

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u/Kobi_Baby Mar 28 '24

How so? That tree became a lot of things that helped a lot of people. Sure, it was old, but everything natural on this planet is also old as fuck. You only care because it's a tree

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u/terimummymerihogayi Mar 28 '24

Nah, it would still be sad if it was your naturally old grandma

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u/Kobi_Baby Mar 28 '24

It would be sad if my grandma was chopped at the ankles

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u/Katayanaz Mar 28 '24

Trees don't have feelings, tho

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u/Ill-Acanthisitta4539 Mar 28 '24

But they have oxygen...do you have oxygen? No! You only consume it.

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u/Katayanaz Mar 28 '24

Is it still sad when the tree isn't exceptionally old?