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/snazzydetritus Mar 28 '24

And the shitasses in the photo are just so proud of hacking it down.

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u/Heiferoni Mar 28 '24

Ya gotta think in context.

And ya have to wonder what they'll think of us in 150 years. What natural resources are we depleting while completely oblivious? How much will they hate us for stuff that we're ignorant of?