oops apparently: The trunk of the above tree is less than 600 years old-but its roots date back to 9,550 years ago, making it the world's oldest known living tree, scientists say.The Norway spruce, of a species commonly used as Christmas trees in Europe, was found in 2004 on a Swedish mountaintop. ( I am not sure if this is correct)
considering the extremes that these organisms are willing to endure in order to survive makes me think that they know the alternative to be utterly terrifying
for my part I thought this we informative and enjoyable. I have do some looking into this myself online and was not aware of several of these. Very interesting, very well spoken.
Can anyone help me? I'm trying to practice my listening skill through this speech. At 0:57 I heard is " And I'm also trying to create a means in which to step outside the box quotidian experience of time", but in the subtitle, that is " And I'm also trying to create a means in which to step outside our quotidian experience of time". Can anyone tell me I heard right or wrong? Thanks so much.
Her definition of an old living thing is very generous to include clonal plants and coral (colonies of tiny cloned creatures). These are lifeforms that are dying and reproducing clones of themselves over thousands of years. No doubt they fascinating, but there aren't single individuals that have lived for the spans that she states. I am surprised no bristlecone pines made her presentation. Now, those are some interesting trees.
Methuselah is a 4844-4845-year-old[1] Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California.[2][3] For many years it was the world's oldest known living non-clonal organism, until superseded by the discovery of another bristlecone pine in the same area with an age of 5063 years (germination in 3051 BC).[1] The tree is named after Methuselah, a Biblical figure having the longest mentioned lifespan in the Bible of 969 years.
The red mark on Sri Lanka on the map is for a sapling of the Bo tree that the Lord Buddha reached enlightenment under. That sapling is now over 2000 years old with a continuous history recorded by monks from the time it was brought to Sri Lanka by India. Probably the most photographed tree in Sri Lanka lol. She doesn't need to come here to get more details
@ForCurrentUse see if it reacts with nucleur material then a substrate will be resent that you can date them to what time sone that the co2 / oxygen and nitrogen levels are
@Vitaminnn07 Do you not see the advent of spray-on cheese and the appreciation of various kinds of Snookies as incontrovertible proof of this phenomenon?
@nightmathzombieethan I once read on a christian forum a response by a poster who asked how many scientists there were in the world, he thought maybe around a few hundred. He asked why we were allowing a couple hundred scientists, versus the millions of faith and religious teachers, to give us our version of reality. It boggles my mind sometimes how ridiculous it can all be. I wonder if they will ever allow a "reliable" system of dating to enter their brains.
Yeah, great research. And if any of these things die within our lifetime...it shows human has done too much bad things on Earth to kill them right now after living for so long.
That you don't get the joke doesn't make me a moron. It was a reference to The Onion's brilliant Ted Talk parody, which this - despite it's interesting content - made me think of. Jesus, I know this is the internet, but why the hostility?
@PsySwitch1983 She's not ugly, she's got Jewish features and is beautiful. You probably just don't have much experience of what 'real' people look like. She's clearly not a trained public speaker as she uses unexciting tones and her pauses are too short whilst her 'interesting points' are too drawn out. She's a photographer.
@TodayInMyWorld HAHA. That is one of the two major indicators that someone is a new scholar instead of an experienced one. "With that being said" and stuff like "Indeed".
I think both biblical literalists and Creationists should take a good look at this(and then dismiss it as the work of the devil !!!) Amazing stuff!(I never knew there living things this old.)
what is better than TED on the internet !
wow, her voice is so soothing, I could listen to her for hours!
Amazing. I can't imagine the amount time, patience, and research this took.
Some of the most kickass things I have ever seen...
I am totally impressed with Rachel Sussmans work. Very impressive.
hahaha I had read "Rachel Sussman: The world's oldest living thing"
Awesome, another eye-opener. Thanks TEDTalks! :)
Fascinating, beautiful, informative, etc. Love this talk!
acho que esse é o ted talk que eu assisti mais vezes. adoro.
The irony is that by doing this talk, she raised their profile and put them more in danger
Ooooof you right. I have to write an essay abt this video, thx for a great thesis!
Fascinating! Thank you 😊
oops apparently: The trunk of the above tree is less than 600 years old-but its roots date back to 9,550 years ago, making it the world's oldest known living tree, scientists say.The Norway spruce, of a species commonly used as Christmas trees in Europe, was found in 2004 on a Swedish mountaintop. ( I am not sure if this is correct)
considering the extremes that these organisms are willing to endure in order to survive makes me think that they know the alternative to be utterly terrifying
That 'one tree forest' is amazing! 80,000 years!
I love how the Japanese tree at 1"15 is either 2,180 years old OR 7,000 years old.
awesome talk!
Anyone consider life on Earth a 3+ billion year old organism?
Over 3 billion years old, and still in the womb.....
for my part I thought this we informative and enjoyable. I have do some looking into this myself online and was not aware of several of these. Very interesting, very well spoken.
Can anyone help me? I'm trying to practice my listening skill through this speech.
At 0:57 I heard is " And I'm also trying to create a means in which to step outside the box quotidian experience of time", but in the subtitle, that is " And I'm also trying to create a means in which to step outside our quotidian experience of time".
Can anyone tell me I heard right or wrong? Thanks so much.
Re upload?
@CptMcClain
Where did you get that idea from?
She has a very soothing voice imo.
brilliant.
thx!
This is inspiring, I need to find someone who would fund my around the globe travels !
What a relief after watching His Holiness the Karmapa. My brain feels better again.
@AlanKey86 They've come up with extremely creative ways to synthesize information like this.
Awesome!!
How do they work out the age of something living?
I can listen to her all the way! Very interesting project. 😍😍 I really want to join her if given the opportunity. 😊😊😊
Her definition of an old living thing is very generous to include clonal plants and coral (colonies of tiny cloned creatures). These are lifeforms that are dying and reproducing clones of themselves over thousands of years. No doubt they fascinating, but there aren't single individuals that have lived for the spans that she states.
I am surprised no bristlecone pines made her presentation. Now, those are some interesting trees.
@nightmathzombieethan 6000 years old ?? where do you get that ?
@coopersnoop Huh, I don't have the time to wath it again for 15 minutes just for that.. Please give me the quote and the minutes she said it.
One disappointing fact, she did not describe how the age is being determined.
How do they know how old a living thing is?
amazing
She used the word: "humbling" correctly! YAY! Sorry, that's a pet peeve of mine.
@h2inuyasha2 i heard somewhere earth's age is 4.5 billion years ( wikipedia - "earth's age" )
@Ceramictrout sorry, i don't understand what you're talking about.. i wish i could.
outstanding
Rachel:The tree is actually a male and immortal.-People just sit and stare- Rachel:Get it? -People laugh-
I don't get it
Wow very interest stuff
interesting.
One complaint: There is no such thing like year 0 in the Gregorian calendar.
Methuselah is a 4844-4845-year-old[1] Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California.[2][3] For many years it was the world's oldest known living non-clonal organism, until superseded by the discovery of another bristlecone pine in the same area with an age of 5063 years (germination in 3051 BC).[1] The tree is named after Methuselah, a Biblical figure having the longest mentioned lifespan in the Bible of 969 years.
The red mark on Sri Lanka on the map is for a sapling of the Bo tree that the Lord Buddha reached enlightenment under. That sapling is now over 2000 years old with a continuous history recorded by monks from the time it was brought to Sri Lanka by India. Probably the most photographed tree in Sri Lanka lol. She doesn't need to come here to get more details
what about the waterbear?
@CptMcClain I think it's more like 4000. 6000 is supposed to be creation.
What is the biggest rock?
@PsySwitch1983 Yeah, because her looks are so relevant to what she's saying.
@ForCurrentUse see if it reacts with nucleur material then a substrate will be resent that you can date them to what time sone that the co2 / oxygen and nitrogen levels are
wow, so interesting
7:05 Tworhundred and 5? Can you hear the number she says?
Atacama desert, the desert with conditions that resembles Mars, it must be near the desert because nothing grows in the Atacam desert, nothing.
I wonder how they measured the ages of these things?
Cool.
@Vitaminnn07 Do you not see the advent of spray-on cheese and the appreciation of various kinds of Snookies as incontrovertible proof of this phenomenon?
Amazing :O
@michalchik it took me minutes to realize why your name looks so familiar to me.
the leagueofreason irc chatroom
@AlanKey86 well when they created that tree it was 3000 years old...
1:10 7000 years old? But the Earth has only been around for 6000!
(Rolls his eyes).
Sometimes it is just nice to ignore the young earth creationists and get on with appreciating the wonder of reality.
what does it taste like
@goog2k i think yes. but even clonal can have some subtle differences, due to small DNA errors, during the cloning mitosis..
@profjaykay Lichen? I love 'em!
what are the red flags on the South East coast of Australia? out in Victoria... I WANA KNOW! I LIVE THERE!!!
A 9000 year old tree would be quite difficult for a young earth creationist to explain...
@nightmathzombieethan I once read on a christian forum a response by a poster who asked how many scientists there were in the world, he thought maybe around a few hundred. He asked why we were allowing a couple hundred scientists, versus the millions of faith and religious teachers, to give us our version of reality. It boggles my mind sometimes how ridiculous it can all be. I wonder if they will ever allow a "reliable" system of dating to enter their brains.
cool, I was in that Baobab tree drinking a coke at the bar inside :D couple of years ago.. amazing tree
@MistahhB That's not true, they know all about it. They work hard to synthesize new information with their beliefs.
@AlanKey86
That's just one of millions of things those people don't know anything about
Rachel sunt in sardegna maslini care au peste 2000 mii de anii!
@Kurtconradt13 growth rates, or in the case of tree by its rings
@ForCurrentUse Well it's not under ideal circumstances I know... but if you really loved them, you'd make it work.
Looks like the secret to living forever is super slow metabolism.
such a cool project - such an amazing topic - so interesting... but... extremely bad photographical work. thats just too bad.
Yeah, great research. And if any of these things die within our lifetime...it shows human has done too much bad things on Earth to kill them right now after living for so long.
Another reason why god did not exist first. Thank you scientist.
@nightmathzombieethan I'm pretty sure it's OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!
She is just like me after I go hiking in the woods with a blunt.
@MasterMark123 TED on a cake.
um the methusala trees are the oldest, 5000 years old!
@Noemro LMAO!!!
I was yelling that at someone yesterday and they just didn't "get it".
4chanitely some people do! LMAO
@stevendlevitt I think he dates anything that moves.
The immortal underground forest of south africa. ase
i cant believe they allowed these forrest to be destroyed. That african today is nothing like the ancestors...smh disgrace
sus
That you don't get the joke doesn't make me a moron. It was a reference to The Onion's brilliant Ted Talk parody, which this - despite it's interesting content - made me think of. Jesus, I know this is the internet, but why the hostility?
Isn't the entire planet only 6000 years old?
Can someone tell her that there is no such thing as a year zero ?
@PsySwitch1983 She's not ugly, she's got Jewish features and is beautiful. You probably just don't have much experience of what 'real' people look like. She's clearly not a trained public speaker as she uses unexciting tones and her pauses are too short whilst her 'interesting points' are too drawn out. She's a photographer.
@TodayInMyWorld HAHA. That is one of the two major indicators that someone is a new scholar instead of an experienced one. "With that being said" and stuff like "Indeed".
I am amazed that science today is not interested in prolonging life
@h2inuyasha2 since earth's age is 4.5 billion years, now it does make fucking sense.
@LordPine
Because.....?
@AgentWD400 - No, Larry King was born in 1749. Check it.
Asking the age of bacteria is a philosophical question. If they divide asexually and lineage can be traced back to close the the origin of life...
she left out cthulthu...
@soseg Google kickstarter the-oldest-living-things-in-the-world
"Clonal shrubs", apparently
@mrblisterfist
its because it's true
@Individualism101 my opinion -> my hand and finger configurations -> ,.I..
@h2inuyasha2 what u mean the world isnt that old?
@nightmathzombieethan I like the way you think. Feline RNA has been dated back to 35,000 years, but I guess RNA testing can be corrupted somehow too.
I think both biblical literalists and Creationists should take a good look at this(and then dismiss it as the work of the devil !!!)
Amazing stuff!(I never knew there living things this old.)