There was another Bristlecone called Prometheus which was actually older than Methuselah by about half a century. Unfortunately, they only discovered that after they cut down and killed Prometheus when one of the scientists couldn’t get a core sample from it.
Except, as talked about in the video, the ones that live longest have seen the least. They live so long because they are separated from everything else, so all they've "seen" is the same boring landscape for a lot longer time.
Another thing to factor in is that it’s been spared from invasive species such as European earth worms, as they turn the soil into a more nutrient one. If the tree is perfectly adapted to a certain environment, then any disruption to that environment could be disastrous. If I recall correctly, this happened to the American redwood trees some place.
This is probably more for the animals with long lifespans, but wouldn't harsher conditions also reduce the number of threats to their existence, namely larger predators? Even for plants and trees it means fewer animals to feast on leaves and such, right?
@@MinuteEarth Aren't any of the extremophile organisms that seldom outlive everything since eons poisonous? Otherwise there may be a chance encounter with a relative of a hungry bear and it would be catastrophic.
@@johnnychang4233 Poison has a metabolic cost, and since a very slow metabolism is a hallmark of long-lived organisms, producing poison would probably mean a greater reduction in lifespan than that posed by random grazing. Just a guess, but it's one that the evidence seems to bear out.
There are small pockets of bristlecone pines in high altitude mountains all over the western US. I saw some when I went to Great Basin National Park. Even if I hadn't already known that they live thousands of years, just from the way they look I would've been able to tell that they were very old. It was fascinating looking at a whole grove of them and thinking about how many of them are older than Ancient Rome and some of them are as old as the Ancient Egyptians.
at 0:41, when the video notes the growth rate of the bristlecone pine, it should say 0.4 cm/yr rather than 0.04 cm/yr. Excellent video, I have often wondered why all the most exceptional age statistics come from extreme environments.
Biology of Ageing is a very interesting topic. Did you know that there is a field of science studying this called biogerontology? It mainly researches the mechanisms of human ageing, age-related diseases and treatments that may be able to intervene in the process. The research is important as many untreatable disease such as cancer, Alzheimer, strokes etc. become more likely with age. If you would like to know more, the book 'Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old' by Dr Andrew Steele gives a good overview on what human ageing is and what research is going on.
@@Gr3nadgr3gory Yes, you are right. I don't know enough about what causes strokes, but it has something to do with the plaque build up in our veins. With age it becomes more noticeable and the immune cells that try to clean it up get stuck there as well, contributing to the build up. Finding a way to remove this plaque build up from our veins will likely contribute in us having a healthier circulatory system for longer. The idea behind the biology of ageing is to find the root causes which together create a complicated knock-on effect that slowly destroys the integrity of the systems in our body. The plaque build up may be caused by something else too.
@Rizon huh, didn't know it was a buildup of plaque. Most of what I know about strokes is because my step uncle had one a few years back. He's doing alright, but he still needs a special knife and other assistance.
@@Gr3nadgr3gory Ah, sorry to hear that! That's the reason why biology of ageing research should get more awareness, funding and skilled people of all kinds of disciplines. To prevent and repair such damages. I don't think it is right to say that we cannot do more or that such illnesses are just part of getting older. Technology and biological sciences are progressing really fast at the moment, I can't say how health care will look like in just ten years if there is a will to do better.
@Rizon we might not be able to do much now, but blue baby syndrome was also incurable until a Genius physician found a way to operate on the hearts of infants. I have great hope for the future of medical technology. Especially with the advent of adult stem cell harvesting.
I was just literally just talking about the Greenland sharks like a couple of hours ago and for something that niche and random to come up randomly in the elusive Minute Earth's new video thumbnail is kind of eerie not gonna lie lol
I thought the oldest living thing in the world would be a sponge, because there was a kind of sponge that was estimated to be 10.000 years old.... Wiki says : "Glass sponges found in the East China Sea and Southern Ocean have been estimated to be more than 10,000 years old. Although this may be an overestimate, it is likely that this is the longest lived animal on Earth."
@@CapitanGreenhat Pando is older than methuselah, when Methuselah is called the oldest living organism, it really means oldest non-clonal organism, which pando does not count as
I thought that tree looked familiar. I saw that tree once, from a distance. The conditions defeated me before I could make it. My nose started bleeding in the dry air and literally did not stop bleeding until I descended the mountain.
Very cool video, in my country there is a plant called Espeletia (Frailejon in Spanish) that also lives many years and grows in dificult conditions. So there is another example to show how good the research you guys do is.
@@FormerLeashKidAndProud It wasn't just some random dude. The story I saw said it was a research assistant who'd been tasked with determining its age. A man who has only a hammer is going to pound the sh*t out of everything.
@@FormerLeashKidAndProudwell it was because a scientist couldn’t get a core sample and well nobody expects to have a tree you choose to be the oldest ever, and the trees aren’t super endangered I don’t think
What about when the lightning super heats the water in the tree isn't that what usually makes a tree explode when it's struck? Is there anything about the structure of Methuselah that would prevent that?
its interesting how different species adapt to their specific habitats, and overall to see that almost all plants that are able to hit 1k in their counter are conifers. they truly show how earth wouldve been a millenia ago. and just to stir the pot, the title to oldest tree is being contested by el gran abuelo, a patagonian cypress growing in alerce costero national park. one might think this place is also barren, but in fact is a temperate rainforest, one of the most productive ecosystems in chile, with a climate similar to redwood national forest in the us. vivan los árboles 🌱
There is a strange tree on the top of a mountain around here. It looks like one of those old trees. It is all gnarled and stuff, and it hasn't changed much in the 30 years I've been going up the mountain. (It is near the top of a ski lift.) Although the mountain can get over 10 feet of snow accumulation in the winter the tree is located in a spot where the wind prevents the snow from piling up. I wonder if it is a bristlecone pine.
0:01 - 0:05 It’s far from the oldest living ”thing” but it’s the oldest plant and tree. Glass sponges are the oldest living thing and animal. The oldest ever found, is 11 000 years old.
It's funny how the latest research on longevity says that we have some mechanisms that work in a similar way. The harsher the conditions, the more our bodies prioritise staying alive as much as possible instead of reproducing
I'm assuming Methuselah made a cameo in the game "the witness". I say "assume" because I don't have an easy way of verifying the apparent similarities.
Good timber does not grow at ease, The stronger wind, the stronger trees. The further sky, the greater length, The more the storm, the more the strength. --Snippet of my favorite poem, author unknown.
There's also a contagious tumor which started out as part of a dog around 15,000 to 20,000 years ago, and is still growing and spreading to this day. By some definitions it is the oldest living thing.
at 0:41 the conversion ratio is wrong, inch to centimeter is 2.54:1 and the centimeter is smaller than the inch, when the inch should be 2.54 centimeters
Which is exact, by definition. In other words, the inch has been defined by the metric system since the 1960s. A pound-mass is exactly 0.45359237 kg, which seems like we could have rounded it up. But the pound is a unit of force, anyway.
What’s crazy to me is that the western U.S. has the oldest living Organism as well as two of the largest living organisms, the Pando in Utah, and the Fungi patch in Oregon. As well ast the Largest Trees, the redwoods in California. What makes the Western US such and extreme environment
Ok you've convinced me, when I reach my 60s or whatever I am going to move to an isolated area in the far north, I will live in the wild with nothing but the animals of the forest as my companions, and when I return to the rest of humanity, I will know all there is about the wild, and how to live for an eternity.
Even animals that received nutrient dense but calorically light diets live up to three times as long as rats who ate calorically dense but nutrient poor diets. Females for example kept their fertility into the equivalent of their 80's. Male rats were stronger and more active than rats the equivalent of their mid 30's early 40's. Even into their "100's" they had full cognitive function. Simply withholding food would have shortened their lives, but 100% nutrition that was dense, but calorically light and given a stimulating environment seemed to freeze aging far longer than imagined. The RDA food pyramid is a compromise to not offend multi-national food producers who shape governments. The nutrition and lifestyle the rats followed would be the equivalent of the more austere Blue Zone diets and lifestyles. Conclusion, eat like a king, die like a pauper. Eat like a pauper (who raises a complete diet) and live like a king. Looks like plants that follow that path live longer.
The tree of wisdom is filled with wisdom, the only way blocking you from having accessing his wisdom is the language barrior. You must learn The Speech of Tree's for 50 years so you can talk to him...
how do we calculate the age for those organisms? i know with trees it has to do with the number of rings they form each year, but if parts of them can die separately, i dont know how it would work and what about sharks? or the two leaf plants in the desert
This tree might be the oldest one, but it's not a very beautiful sight. As mentioned in the video, most parts of it have died already. The wood is hard and thin. It has almost no leaves left and its life cycle is super slow. When people about "long life" they often imagine that something or someone is more healthy and has like "more life energy" in it. But the reality shows that a long life usually just means a slow death. You don't have more of a life to live than others, you just spread it over a longer timespan. It's not very desirable.
In truth, suffering makes us more aware of patterns that can lead to negative outcomes. Experience tells us how to prepare and how urgent things can get if we don’t take immediate action at the first indications of a negative outcome. Stronger? No, not really. But more capable of living through struggles in the future? Maybe. My grandmother lived through the Great Depression, WWII, and so on. She out lived 3 husbands and survived cancer multiple times. She taught me many things about surviving on very little and how to stay safe and not look homeless as a homeless woman. She taught me how to plan and save and prepare for the future, because nothing ever lasts (the good or the bad). She taught me to be frugal and never spend more than I need to at any given time. She taught me how to provide food and shelter for a lot of people on very little. She taught me that exercising every day, eating healthy food, taking daily vitamins, and having a good sense of humor would help me live a longer life. She was the manager of two apartment complexes and drove a moving van in her 90’s, up until she was 97 years old and broke her hip. She survived that surgery and then broke her arm while trying to exercise in her room in the recovery ward because she fell out of the bed. She survived that and then broke her other hip while still recovering and went into surgery again. She has Dementia now and she’s healed from that period of time. She had laser eye surgery to remove cataracts in both eyes during her stay in the hospital. Next year she’ll be 100 years old. She’s still up walking around and socializing and doing things, and taking care of herself alright but she’s probably not going to make it to 110. The Dementia will probably get her before her body quits. But she’s an amazing woman and I genuinely appreciate everything she’s taught me about life and survival. ❤ she’s given her grandchildren and great grandchildren a better chance at reaching 100 themselves because of her wisdom. There’s still no guarantee that we will for sure get there, but the more struggles you can overcome the better the chances of your survival. Have a great weekend 👋.
My other grandmother taught me about home remedies and some basic first aid. She taught me how to grow food. She also taught me how to find food in nature and identify edible plants and animals. She taught me to sew and mend things and to do my own repairs and home improvements. She taught me to be warm, and gentle, and patient and to never be afraid of being silly, asking for help, or admitting when you don’t know something. She was my maternal grandmother. From her side of the family I learned to quilt and make jewelry and to create things for the simple desire of wanting them to exist. She taught me problem solving and communication and a love of learning. Her life was also difficult starting from her childhood in poverty. At 18 she married my grandfather and their car rolled down into a ravine on their honeymoon. My grandfather was thrown from the car and mostly alright, but my grandmother got stuck in her seatbelt and tumbled to the bottom in the car with several broken glass jars of preserves that were wedding gifts from family. She broke both her arms and both her legs and her spine was severed, and she had so many glass shards in her body. She had been pregnant at the time and had a miscarriage because of the accident. They both eventually had healed, but she was in the hospital recovering and doing physical therapy for a very long time. Eventually she learned to walk and run again and regained the use of her fine motor skills, but she had pain every single day after that and eventually in her 50’s she started to have mobility issues again. She got diabetes and eventually died at 65 of a respiratory infection. Her sister lived to 72 before dying of heart failure. But my maternal grandmother was trained to be a nurse during her stay on a military base in Spain during some war or other that my grandfather fought in. They didn’t have many supplies so she had to learn from the locals about growing food and finding it in nature in exchange for her help with some of their basic medical needs. She never went on to be a doctor or anything but she made house visits while raising her own kids and helping others with theirs. Because of her love and kindness I’m able to give that love and kindness to my son, who looked just like her when he was born. I miss her all the time but I’ve used what she taught me, almost every day of my life. And it helped my family get through some difficult times as well. *from her side of the family I learned to hunt, track, trap, and fish and how to clean and prepare animals for food too. Those are the things that most people can’t handle, but they are a part of life for some people too. I use to catch wild rabbits by hand to feed my family for a period of time. It wasn’t easy and sometimes I’d be out all day. Sometimes I couldn’t catch any. It takes a lot of patience, a keen eye, and fast reflexes. Sometimes the hunting and fishing was bad too. But those are things I can do if needed, and that means a lot to me.
I've always wondered if plants can die of old age. There's a limit to how high they can grow. But once they reach that height, can they just live indefinitely?
My great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather climbed this tree.
is there a particular reason California seems to have such extreme trees (giant sequoia - largest tree; coastal redwood - tallest tree; bristlecone pine - oldest tree)? or is it just historical/evolutionary/environmental chance?
It probably has to do with a combination of the conditions and the relatively late discovery by western civilization North American ecosystems are relatively complete compared to those in Eurasia and North Africa and most of Europe's remaining refugia for biodiversity are areas which are similarly relatively inaccessible to logging. European woodlands really are fragmentary at best as the soil ecology of forests has largely been driven to extinction by the collapse of forest ecosystems throughout Europe as the drive for lumber pushed Europeans further and further abroad after they cut down all the indigenous forests. If I recall correctly form the Hidden life of trees the closest functional/complete forest ecosystem to western Europe is in Poland with the so called "forests" of Europe being primarily tree plantations largely stocked with nonnative fast growing trees for lumber. In effect any similar ages trees in other Mediterranean climates as a general rule were cut down thousands of years ago to satiate lumber demands.
There was another Bristlecone called Prometheus which was actually older than Methuselah by about half a century. Unfortunately, they only discovered that after they cut down and killed Prometheus when one of the scientists couldn’t get a core sample from it.
ugh
How fittingly tragic.
'Earthlings cringe'
this just makes me hate us as a species even more, humanity is a parasite to earth. i wish we would go extinct
r. i. p. prometheus
Can't imagine the life the tree has had staying alive for so long it has seen alot, hopefully it continues to last long
Its good that this tree doesnt stand in netherlands some dutch morons decided it was a good idea to burn down our oldest tree
actually methuselah only died because it was chopped down so we could know how old it is
that one was the prometheus tree!
I wish I'm a tree in my next life or maybe a tube worm
Except, as talked about in the video, the ones that live longest have seen the least. They live so long because they are separated from everything else, so all they've "seen" is the same boring landscape for a lot longer time.
Another thing to factor in is that it’s been spared from invasive species such as European earth worms, as they turn the soil into a more nutrient one. If the tree is perfectly adapted to a certain environment, then any disruption to that environment could be disastrous. If I recall correctly, this happened to the American redwood trees some place.
I genuinely thought that you'd say "European Colonizers" at the beginning of your sentence.
well, both of them are pesky😆
Eurasian redwood trees actually existed, but the ice age killed almost all of them.
This is probably more for the animals with long lifespans, but wouldn't harsher conditions also reduce the number of threats to their existence, namely larger predators? Even for plants and trees it means fewer animals to feast on leaves and such, right?
definitely!
@@MinuteEarth Aren't any of the extremophile organisms that seldom outlive everything since eons poisonous? Otherwise there may be a chance encounter with a relative of a hungry bear and it would be catastrophic.
@Computment Nobody cares if you're gay anymore. If you aren't non-binary with some odd neopronoun, you're just a normie.
@Computmentok
@@johnnychang4233 Poison has a metabolic cost, and since a very slow metabolism is a hallmark of long-lived organisms, producing poison would probably mean a greater reduction in lifespan than that posed by random grazing.
Just a guess, but it's one that the evidence seems to bear out.
There are small pockets of bristlecone pines in high altitude mountains all over the western US. I saw some when I went to Great Basin National Park. Even if I hadn't already known that they live thousands of years, just from the way they look I would've been able to tell that they were very old. It was fascinating looking at a whole grove of them and thinking about how many of them are older than Ancient Rome and some of them are as old as the Ancient Egyptians.
at 0:41, when the video notes the growth rate of the bristlecone pine, it should say 0.4 cm/yr rather than 0.04 cm/yr. Excellent video, I have often wondered why all the most exceptional age statistics come from extreme environments.
Loved this video! I think I noticed a tiny little error at 0:43? Wouldn't .15in be .4cm, not .04?
Yes, aka 4mm
Hi xidnaf! You're still alive?
Greetings from Spain!
Biology of Ageing is a very interesting topic. Did you know that there is a field of science studying this called biogerontology? It mainly researches the mechanisms of human ageing, age-related diseases and treatments that may be able to intervene in the process.
The research is important as many untreatable disease such as cancer, Alzheimer, strokes etc. become more likely with age.
If you would like to know more, the book 'Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old' by Dr Andrew Steele gives a good overview on what human ageing is and what research is going on.
I always thought of a stroke more like an injury than an illness. Like heart attacks or aneurysms.
@@Gr3nadgr3gory Yes, you are right. I don't know enough about what causes strokes, but it has something to do with the plaque build up in our veins. With age it becomes more noticeable and the immune cells that try to clean it up get stuck there as well, contributing to the build up.
Finding a way to remove this plaque build up from our veins will likely contribute in us having a healthier circulatory system for longer.
The idea behind the biology of ageing is to find the root causes which together create a complicated knock-on effect that slowly destroys the integrity of the systems in our body.
The plaque build up may be caused by something else too.
@Rizon huh, didn't know it was a buildup of plaque. Most of what I know about strokes is because my step uncle had one a few years back. He's doing alright, but he still needs a special knife and other assistance.
@@Gr3nadgr3gory Ah, sorry to hear that! That's the reason why biology of ageing research should get more awareness, funding and skilled people of all kinds of disciplines. To prevent and repair such damages. I don't think it is right to say that we cannot do more or that such illnesses are just part of getting older.
Technology and biological sciences are progressing really fast at the moment, I can't say how health care will look like in just ten years if there is a will to do better.
@Rizon we might not be able to do much now, but blue baby syndrome was also incurable until a Genius physician found a way to operate on the hearts of infants. I have great hope for the future of medical technology. Especially with the advent of adult stem cell harvesting.
I was just literally just talking about the Greenland sharks like a couple of hours ago and for something that niche and random to come up randomly in the elusive Minute Earth's new video thumbnail is kind of eerie not gonna lie lol
Ooooo magic!
I thought the oldest living thing in the world would be a sponge, because there was a kind of sponge that was estimated to be 10.000 years old....
Wiki says :
"Glass sponges found in the East China Sea and Southern Ocean have been estimated to be more than 10,000 years old. Although this may be an overestimate, it is likely that this is the longest lived animal on Earth."
It's the legendary SpongeBob
They're still collecting data about it (scientists thought it was extinct until recently!) but it may take the title if they can prove its age!
you're in for a tree-t!
And pando is around that age
@@CapitanGreenhat Pando is older than methuselah, when Methuselah is called the oldest living organism, it really means oldest non-clonal organism, which pando does not count as
So, only some sections of the 5000 year old bristlecone are alive?
Yeah. Most of it is just dead wood.
7777'00000. Years old💀💀💀
I thought that tree looked familiar. I saw that tree once, from a distance. The conditions defeated me before I could make it. My nose started bleeding in the dry air and literally did not stop bleeding until I descended the mountain.
Spotted an error: 0:44 0.15 in is 0.4 cm, not 0.04 cm.
d'oh! you're right!
@@MinuteEarth There's another error... using antiquated imperial units in a science video.
Very cool video, in my country there is a plant called Espeletia (Frailejon in Spanish) that also lives many years and grows in dificult conditions. So there is another example to show how good the research you guys do is.
"We must cut the oldest tree to see how old it is" - Someone 2022
Ok this is kinda funny, but I'd feel bad laughing at it.
@@FormerLeashKidAndProud It wasn't just some random dude. The story I saw said it was a research assistant who'd been tasked with determining its age. A man who has only a hammer is going to pound the sh*t out of everything.
@@FormerLeashKidAndProudwell it was because a scientist couldn’t get a core sample and well nobody expects to have a tree you choose to be the oldest ever, and the trees aren’t super endangered I don’t think
@@sirsanti8408 no there critically endangered mostly thanks to people.
They should have just custom-made a longer device to determine it's age.
What about when the lightning super heats the water in the tree isn't that what usually makes a tree explode when it's struck? Is there anything about the structure of Methuselah that would prevent that?
I'm guessing less water content means smaller steam explosion?
Internal boundary and thicker amour
2:40 "And here's something else that's extremely cool: we have made our own
✨️MOLECULES✨️"
(how my brain first parsed this)
Never thought one day I'll be rooting for a tree I didn't even know the name of! Great video mate.
its interesting how different species adapt to their specific habitats, and overall to see that almost all plants that are able to hit 1k in their counter are conifers. they truly show how earth wouldve been a millenia ago. and just to stir the pot, the title to oldest tree is being contested by el gran abuelo, a patagonian cypress growing in alerce costero national park. one might think this place is also barren, but in fact is a temperate rainforest, one of the most productive ecosystems in chile, with a climate similar to redwood national forest in the us. vivan los árboles 🌱
Original title: how suffering leads to longer life
The oldest living guy on earth: DAMIT Another Year!
2:35 if gilgamesh heard this he will rise from the grave.
There is a strange tree on the top of a mountain around here. It looks like one of those old trees. It is all gnarled and stuff, and it hasn't changed much in the 30 years I've been going up the mountain. (It is near the top of a ski lift.) Although the mountain can get over 10 feet of snow accumulation in the winter the tree is located in a spot where the wind prevents the snow from piling up. I wonder if it is a bristlecone pine.
Really puts into perspective that 5000 years is not that long as we think it is.
That’s where Vaatu is locked up
Is that a... Legend of Korra reference? Or is that from some mythology
@@eglol Yes
0:01 - 0:05 It’s far from the oldest living ”thing” but it’s the oldest plant and tree. Glass sponges are the oldest living thing and animal. The oldest ever found, is 11 000 years old.
I HAVE FINISHED THE COURSE(I love it)
Jellyfishes: "ARE YOU CHALLENGING ME???!!!"
A video on Pando, which could be up to 14000 years old, would be interesting.
It's funny how the latest research on longevity says that we have some mechanisms that work in a similar way. The harsher the conditions, the more our bodies prioritise staying alive as much as possible instead of reproducing
First thumb-up, first comment!
These long-lifers are crazy. The sixth mass extinction is such a shame. It's a travesty for future generations.
oh hey bro, cool that you were here before the premiere
@@spingleboygle join patron if you can
Nice Great Science Topic, Guys
Makes me wonder about humans… Time to live in extreme climates to live forever!
Quick - to the fortress of solitude!
Reject the comfort of society, return to monk.
I'm assuming Methuselah made a cameo in the game "the witness". I say "assume" because I don't have an easy way of verifying the apparent similarities.
Tree: IM A SURVIVOR IM NOT GONNA GIVE UP IM NOT GONNA STOP IM GONNA GO HARDRT
Random camper: I need some fire wood, hey look! A weird looking tree. don’t mind if I do…
The only reason I know what a bristlecone pine is is because in school i did a project on nevada and the bristlecone pine is the state tree of Nevada.
Old Tjikko in Sweden is twice the age of Methusulah..
Good timber does not grow at ease,
The stronger wind, the stronger trees.
The further sky, the greater length,
The more the storm, the more the strength.
--Snippet of my favorite poem, author unknown.
0:42
The Bristlecone growth rate in centimetres is 0,4 cm/year not 0,04 cm/year
What about that one asper tree that has 80,000 "trunks" that are all geneticly identical. Think it's around half a million years old or something?
There‘s an asterisk at the start if the video that says *Non-clonal organism. I think that‘s how they exclude that.
@@screwaccountnames OK that makes sense.
There's also a contagious tumor which started out as part of a dog around 15,000 to 20,000 years ago, and is still growing and spreading to this day. By some definitions it is the oldest living thing.
I'm not sure anymore.
Sort of the opposite of "Live fast, die young"
Live slow, die never.
"Let's not be hasty now."
Said a certain ent in lord of the rings.
The Old Tree:..... I seen things things that should not be seen in my long life......
You don't gotta live that long to see a lot. There were people who saw both the American Civil War and Yuri Grigaran.
at 0:41 the conversion ratio is wrong, inch to centimeter is 2.54:1 and the centimeter is smaller than the inch, when the inch should be 2.54 centimeters
Which is exact, by definition. In other words, the inch has been defined by the metric system since the 1960s. A pound-mass is exactly 0.45359237 kg, which seems like we could have rounded it up. But the pound is a unit of force, anyway.
@@sydhenderson6753 i din't know that, but 0.04×2.55 gives 0.102 on the calculator, but on the video its 0.15, but the vid is good
So what your saying is I’m indestructible? Oh no, a slight stress change could easily… Indestructible!
what do you use to edit videos
You know you are early when you get to see the title change, then change back into the original, and change again
God, Methuselah has seen more things that most history books record in an edition
The oldest tree in the world is currently the great grandfather that is more than 5,400 years old, it is located in the south of Chile.
Was totally confused by the changed thumbnail for a moment.
What’s crazy to me is that the western U.S. has the oldest living Organism as well as two of the largest living organisms, the Pando in Utah, and the Fungi patch in Oregon. As well ast the Largest Trees, the redwoods in California. What makes the Western US such and extreme environment
Methuselah is hallow at the bottom and I once spent the night inside and was born again at dawn.
So basically avoid competition and don’t grow too much, also learn to survive where most can’t
I love the little easter egg ya'll put in of Grant the pokemon XY gym leader climbing the mountain XD
We’ve bred plants to be larger so why not breed trees to be super huge and suck up a lot of co2
i think we are already
The other secret to long life is to live in a place where humans don't usually go.
and where human trash doesn't go
Ok you've convinced me, when I reach my 60s or whatever I am going to move to an isolated area in the far north, I will live in the wild with nothing but the animals of the forest as my companions, and when I return to the rest of humanity, I will know all there is about the wild, and how to live for an eternity.
Even animals that received nutrient dense but calorically light diets live up to three times as long as rats who ate calorically dense but nutrient poor diets. Females for example kept their fertility into the equivalent of their 80's. Male rats were stronger and more active than rats the equivalent of their mid 30's early 40's. Even into their "100's" they had full cognitive function. Simply withholding food would have shortened their lives, but 100% nutrition that was dense, but calorically light and given a stimulating environment seemed to freeze aging far longer than imagined. The RDA food pyramid is a compromise to not offend multi-national food producers who shape governments. The nutrition and lifestyle the rats followed would be the equivalent of the more austere Blue Zone diets and lifestyles. Conclusion, eat like a king, die like a pauper. Eat like a pauper (who raises a complete diet) and live like a king. Looks like plants that follow that path live longer.
The tree of wisdom is filled with wisdom, the only way blocking you from having accessing his wisdom is the language barrior. You must learn The Speech of Tree's for 50 years so you can talk to him...
I learned a new thing today: Brussel Sprouts love Pizza.
1:40 - that basic fact ... got it
Pretty good metaphor too
Yggdrasil
Only me? Alright, joke fun for me tho
What's with the title and picture change of the video?
Dunno, it seems kinda lonely to live that long
😢
Methuselah Tree?
@@Topckrock tree's don't feel emotions? they don't have thoughts.
There are many cures to loneliness. None to death.
@@Deltexterity How can you know if you're not a tree?
how do we calculate the age for those organisms? i know with trees it has to do with the number of rings they form each year, but if parts of them can die separately, i dont know how it would work
and what about sharks? or the two leaf plants in the desert
For welwitschia (the two-leafed desert plant) and for Greenland sharks, they use radiocarbon dating.
In China, there is a 1400-year-old Ginkgo tree and it has been standing with no disruptions
1:40 I see what you did there
Awesome
This tree might be the oldest one, but it's not a very beautiful sight. As mentioned in the video, most parts of it have died already. The wood is hard and thin. It has almost no leaves left and its life cycle is super slow.
When people about "long life" they often imagine that something or someone is more healthy and has like "more life energy" in it. But the reality shows that a long life usually just means a slow death. You don't have more of a life to live than others, you just spread it over a longer timespan. It's not very desirable.
its the only tree that can say "back in my day"
Me gaslighting myself that suffering is making me stronger.
I’m finna live to 100 years old.
In truth, suffering makes us more aware of patterns that can lead to negative outcomes. Experience tells us how to prepare and how urgent things can get if we don’t take immediate action at the first indications of a negative outcome. Stronger? No, not really. But more capable of living through struggles in the future? Maybe.
My grandmother lived through the Great Depression, WWII, and so on. She out lived 3 husbands and survived cancer multiple times. She taught me many things about surviving on very little and how to stay safe and not look homeless as a homeless woman. She taught me how to plan and save and prepare for the future, because nothing ever lasts (the good or the bad). She taught me to be frugal and never spend more than I need to at any given time. She taught me how to provide food and shelter for a lot of people on very little. She taught me that exercising every day, eating healthy food, taking daily vitamins, and having a good sense of humor would help me live a longer life. She was the manager of two apartment complexes and drove a moving van in her 90’s, up until she was 97 years old and broke her hip. She survived that surgery and then broke her arm while trying to exercise in her room in the recovery ward because she fell out of the bed. She survived that and then broke her other hip while still recovering and went into surgery again. She has Dementia now and she’s healed from that period of time. She had laser eye surgery to remove cataracts in both eyes during her stay in the hospital. Next year she’ll be 100 years old. She’s still up walking around and socializing and doing things, and taking care of herself alright but she’s probably not going to make it to 110. The Dementia will probably get her before her body quits. But she’s an amazing woman and I genuinely appreciate everything she’s taught me about life and survival. ❤ she’s given her grandchildren and great grandchildren a better chance at reaching 100 themselves because of her wisdom. There’s still no guarantee that we will for sure get there, but the more struggles you can overcome the better the chances of your survival. Have a great weekend 👋.
My other grandmother taught me about home remedies and some basic first aid. She taught me how to grow food. She also taught me how to find food in nature and identify edible plants and animals. She taught me to sew and mend things and to do my own repairs and home improvements. She taught me to be warm, and gentle, and patient and to never be afraid of being silly, asking for help, or admitting when you don’t know something. She was my maternal grandmother. From her side of the family I learned to quilt and make jewelry and to create things for the simple desire of wanting them to exist. She taught me problem solving and communication and a love of learning.
Her life was also difficult starting from her childhood in poverty. At 18 she married my grandfather and their car rolled down into a ravine on their honeymoon. My grandfather was thrown from the car and mostly alright, but my grandmother got stuck in her seatbelt and tumbled to the bottom in the car with several broken glass jars of preserves that were wedding gifts from family. She broke both her arms and both her legs and her spine was severed, and she had so many glass shards in her body. She had been pregnant at the time and had a miscarriage because of the accident. They both eventually had healed, but she was in the hospital recovering and doing physical therapy for a very long time. Eventually she learned to walk and run again and regained the use of her fine motor skills, but she had pain every single day after that and eventually in her 50’s she started to have mobility issues again. She got diabetes and eventually died at 65 of a respiratory infection. Her sister lived to 72 before dying of heart failure. But my maternal grandmother was trained to be a nurse during her stay on a military base in Spain during some war or other that my grandfather fought in. They didn’t have many supplies so she had to learn from the locals about growing food and finding it in nature in exchange for her help with some of their basic medical needs. She never went on to be a doctor or anything but she made house visits while raising her own kids and helping others with theirs. Because of her love and kindness I’m able to give that love and kindness to my son, who looked just like her when he was born. I miss her all the time but I’ve used what she taught me, almost every day of my life. And it helped my family get through some difficult times as well. *from her side of the family I learned to hunt, track, trap, and fish and how to clean and prepare animals for food too. Those are the things that most people can’t handle, but they are a part of life for some people too. I use to catch wild rabbits by hand to feed my family for a period of time. It wasn’t easy and sometimes I’d be out all day. Sometimes I couldn’t catch any. It takes a lot of patience, a keen eye, and fast reflexes. Sometimes the hunting and fishing was bad too. But those are things I can do if needed, and that means a lot to me.
resume: stay away from people and fires. live long and happy
That tree have the pass to call us "lil bro"
Methuselah: I’m built different
Random fact: the cake in the video has 24 visible candles (at 1:54)
So great
Methuselah, the real life wise mystical tree
I've always wondered if plants can die of old age. There's a limit to how high they can grow. But once they reach that height, can they just live indefinitely?
*reads title* I'm Immortal!
2:42 why does this remind me of a raptor?
Adaptation goes hard.
0:03 oh so thats what the r pentomino is named after
Wasn't there a recent discovery of a tree in... Chile?... that's older than Methuselah?
"once in a century fires" as a californian, i can confirm that these fies are not one in a century, but twice a decade
Oh dammit, you mean to tell me I'm gonna be here FOREVER?
Life is amazing
My great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather climbed this tree.
I like that bristle cone pine seeds eat pizza...1:39😊
is there a particular reason California seems to have such extreme trees (giant sequoia - largest tree; coastal redwood - tallest tree; bristlecone pine - oldest tree)? or is it just historical/evolutionary/environmental chance?
It probably has to do with a combination of the conditions and the relatively late discovery by western civilization North American ecosystems are relatively complete compared to those in Eurasia and North Africa and most of Europe's remaining refugia for biodiversity are areas which are similarly relatively inaccessible to logging. European woodlands really are fragmentary at best as the soil ecology of forests has largely been driven to extinction by the collapse of forest ecosystems throughout Europe as the drive for lumber pushed Europeans further and further abroad after they cut down all the indigenous forests.
If I recall correctly form the Hidden life of trees the closest functional/complete forest ecosystem to western Europe is in Poland with the so called "forests" of Europe being primarily tree plantations largely stocked with nonnative fast growing trees for lumber. In effect any similar ages trees in other Mediterranean climates as a general rule were cut down thousands of years ago to satiate lumber demands.
So basically: Be where no others are at all costs, be alone.
"How this tree..." and not one picture of the actual tree is shown. SMH
Make a video about the oldest tree in the world
I hope this rule doesn't apply to mental suffering...
Love it
I think I will be much too tired by the time I reach 70, but I wish them luck!
If been to this tree and the oldest known bush in California.
Help my ads are Duolingo and it's forcing my finger to downlo
give me *more* tree videos I NEED MORE please
Why don't bristle cone pines live in large forests since these adaptations have given them enough time to reproduce?
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