Bristlecone Pines | 100 Wonders | Atlas Obscura

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Written and hosted by Dylan Thuras (@dylanthuras)
Edited and Graphics by Michelle Enemark (@mjenemark)
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[@sargervbftw626]

This channel probably has more videos in my favorites than any other.

[@thrillhouse_vanhouten]

So happy to see you guys posting 100 Wonders videos again! Looking very forward to your book release in Sept!

[@humboogu]

WELCOME BACK!

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Hi Dylan!! Yes, welcome back. It's been too long since we heard from you.😆

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OK I just started watching your 100 wonders videos like.... 5 days ago and I've almost watched all of them!!!!!! HOPE THERES MORE TO COME! I am OBSESSED with your channel!!!!!! you guys do a great job! :)

[@patrickrussell9]

Hi Dylan,
Just discovered your show and love it!
The Armagosa Opera House in Death Valley and the story of Marta Becket is really fascinating. You should do a video on that!
Keep up the great episodes!

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More video's please! Literally the most informative and fun video's on the web!

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100 Wonders videos!!!! thanks!!

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So glad this is back I discovered this two months ago and binge watched all the videos can't wait to find out more cool stuff on the planet

[@JoseGranny]

I don't get thrilled when it comes to spirituality and such, but i do wonder if these trees, somehow "know" something that we don't.

[@natuu94]

I miss the 100 wonders series sooooo much :( Please do more of these, they are so interesting and wonderful!!!

[@rebeccalucas2787]

Love this! Guess I need to go visit these bristle cone pines and Great Basin NP.

[@LinusWilson]

Thanks for showing me the location.

[@texaslonestarrider]

Fantastic Story! Thanks For Sharing My Friend!

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I miss Dylan:(

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You're back!

[@AlexCab_49]

I don't want the bristlecone pines to go away.

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Same 😔😢

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So happy you guys are posting again! Great video :)

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So glad you're back!!!

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Great video, thanks I’ve sprouted six of these so far 😊

[@rindin100]

I don't care what gets stuck in that tree! You don't just go cut down the oldest tree on this planet! Only a crazy person would do such a thing!

[@OneDollarBuddha]

Oh I remember hearing about him on radiolab! Such an interesting story.

[@slingslang2934]

Cool how it looks like 20 pine needles growing but they spread about 5 times each making 100. And they arrange out oddly even, like bristles.

[@nickmckenzie3361]

Can you guys make a video on the Abita Mystery House (UCM Museum)?

[@sainthuckelberry]

Great video and really great national park. The story of Prometheus is both sad and poignant.

[@MeAuntieNora]

Jeez, this and the Tree of Ténéré... I wonder if there are any historically/biologically important trees that have been killed that we DON'T know about...

[@centipede167]

He's back!...poor trees.

[@TylerMatthewHarris]

Love it!

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Finally! Another video of you. Welcome back!

[@RomanVideos1]

It is amazing to think that the tree has seen a lot of things throughout our human history., just thinking about it makes it kind of scary.

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yessss you've returned!

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Praise the Lord for his wonderful creation. And only the saviour of human beings. Amen.

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Are you still making more videos? I really like these videos.

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its been so long i forgot i was subscribed

[@ElizabethTravelsNow]

Just as a quick FYI, the annotations are not working at the end of the video.

[@Mike-Primus7777]

I read through the comments and not one comment about these 5000-year-old trees

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Wohooo, you're back \o

[@marcorodvas]

make one about the general sherman tree in california's sequoia park!

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[@seanmiller9304]

Well I did not know the rest of the story. I'm glad it was not on purpose, it was almost an accident.

[@michaelwiebe8273]

"How do we measure time? It's incredibly subjective."
Answer: number of orbits around the sun.

[@idontgivearatsbottom]

Not really. Thats how we measure a year not time.

[@kilawattkidd]

One more year and the tree will be able to join AARP

[@adamgrimsley2900]

Time measurement isn't subjective

[@jaysheth2090]

Mirny Mine,Siberia!

[@sipsindustrial7258]

Check an olive tree in Palestine... It may be older... :)

[@TheRomeoSan]

It just happen to be in America, I am pretty sure this is not the oldest tree.

[@ericcartman8354]

these trees were old when Jesus was born

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Stephen Prater Fuck ur jesus

[@onelowerlight]

Great video, except the last part about climate change threatened the bristlecone pines. The climate has changed dramatically within the lifetime of many of these trees, such as the warm period during the Roman era and the little ice age during the Medieval era. The climate is always changing, and if these hardy plants survived all of that, they're not going to be killed off anytime soon.

[@hin930]

It was not just the range of the change but the speed of the change will kill it off.
The Roman Warm Period you mention last about 650 years and the temperatures range were within a degree of modern temperatures. The Little Ice Age (Wasn't really an Ice Age) last about 200 years and the change were still less profound than the temperature increased in the last 100 years.
Human have greatly change our climate in less than 150 years since the industrial revolution. We literately doing EVERYTHING we can to cause the climate change. Deforestation and releasing green house gas are just some of the things we did to cause the warming. The sixteen hottest years since 1880 are ALL between 1998-2015. We are almost 2 degree warmer and most of it are caused by human activities.

[@onelowerlight]

The climate is certainly changing (as it has always changed), but I'm not convinced it's man-made. I don't have an agenda so I'm not going to push one way or the other, but there's a real bias against healthy skepticism among pro-climate change activists, and some of the "facts" they cite are of questionable scientific value.

[@nareshkumarnareshkumar300]

Are you sure

[@easymode_RL]

End of the video was dumb.. trying to claim that climate change is going to kill trees that have been around a lot longer than we have.. I mean, sir, may be a lot of them will die off, but he makes it sound like they’re going to go extinct.. please..

[@danielhudon9456]

Like he said, they will try to go higher with the warming climate, until they can’t go any higher.

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This channel probably has more videos in my favorites than any other.