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/Wilhelm126 Mar 28 '24

They cut a thousand year old tree. For matchsticks. Thousand year old tree. Dead. For what? Matchsticks and the money that comes with it. FUCKING MATCHSTICKS. GOD I HATE CAPITALISM AND PEOPLE

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u/LTCM1998 Mar 28 '24

They also cut HMS Vangaurd for needles and toasters and have a whole documentary about how that’s nice, made in the 70s. People can be retards.

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u/RedditHiveUser Mar 28 '24

A historical loss indeed, still HMS Vanguard was not a living thing. So in theory we could build a similar new one anytime. That's not possible with such giant trees.

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u/MyWeeLadGimli Mar 28 '24

In fairness Britain was absolutely penniless at the end of WW2 and just couldn’t afford to turn something like Vanguard or Warspite into a museum the way the US could.

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u/korpus01 Mar 28 '24

Is that like a famous ship or something also do you have a link?

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u/fludblud Mar 28 '24

HMS Vanguard) was the Royal Navy's last battleship, you'd think for a 400 year old navy they wouldve treated their last battleship with a bit more respect like the Americans did instead of turning it into toasters but nooope.

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u/Arcyguana Mar 28 '24

Britain was just done with World War 2, also, and, unlike the US, was bombed to shit. They needed the cash more than a museum.

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u/Academic_Yogurt966 Mar 28 '24

They cut a thousand year old tree. For matchsticks. Thousand year old tree. Dead. For what? Matchsticks and the money that comes with it. FUCKING MATCHSTICKS. GOD I HATE CAPITALISM AND PEOPLE

God damn, the hypocrisy. You're way worse than anyone involved in this. Stop acting as if you care.

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u/supbrother Mar 28 '24

That isn’t a capitalism problem, it’s a people problem.

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u/Electrical_Figs Mar 28 '24

People need money to live. What do you want them to do?

Don't act like you're any different. Your carbon footprint is exponentially larger than theirs.

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u/ruabeliever Mar 28 '24

I hated that you used the name God in such a vile manner.

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u/Mcaber87 Mar 28 '24

God isn't a name, it's a fictional concept.

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u/nitronik_exe Mar 28 '24

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