When I did my night flight for my pilot training, we left Linden, MI headed for another rural airport. It was 1989 and you could pick out each town for dozens of miles in each direction; tiny patches of light in the night. All of the small airport beacons, green-white-green…, were instantly visible. Now, when I take night flight, I can’t see where cities end and towns begin; the many small airport beacons are lost in the clutter.
They live thousands of years, storing many thousands of gallons of water in those enormous trunks so they can make it through hard times.
I will always remember them because The Little Prince was worried that they were going to grow so huge on his tiny planet that they would break it up, and destroy it.
Since posting the above, I did an image search, and found sites claiming that this is a particular baobab in Tanzania, though some say Senegal, that is 6,000 years old, making it the oldest tree on Earth.
However, Snopes refutes that claim, and Smithsonian magazine never mentions it in an article about the oldest trees in the world.
OTOH, baobabs have spongy interiors, with no growth rings, so previously were not included in such studies.
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Scientists just started carbon dating them in the late 20th century, many not till recently…so theres a chance this information is simply newer
I kind of doubt it, though.
But if it ever turns out to be true… You saw it here!
Wikipedia identifies a particular baobab in Zimbabwe as the oldest angiosperm (broad leafed tree) on earth at 2419 years old. Several gymnosperms (conifers) are older…
Yes… Gymnosperms tend to live longer, free from the apparently wearying cycle of flowering and fruiting, which diverts energy.
And baobabs live the longest of flowering plants, partly due to the consistent water holding nature of their tissue, and the randomness of their life cycles, which don’t create the drought/wet changes that cause annual rings.
Clonal trees, in some ways, live the longest… But only their root systems, which produce new stems while older ones die..
You can’t point to a single stem and say this is an ancient tree.
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Do you think they might be related?
Naaahh
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Now you know why they are so long.
Bet he gets good reception with those things…
Crouching Tiger – Hidden Bunny!
Or:
Crouching Bunny – Hidden Tiger!
I can’t see you, so you can’t see me, right?
BTW his name is Radar.
Kewl!
It works until I blink. Cool effect.
When I did my night flight for my pilot training, we left Linden, MI headed for another rural airport. It was 1989 and you could pick out each town for dozens of miles in each direction; tiny patches of light in the night. All of the small airport beacons, green-white-green…, were instantly visible. Now, when I take night flight, I can’t see where cities end and towns begin; the many small airport beacons are lost in the clutter.
Fly west, young man.
that is so cool
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My guess
But if 95% fail it could be
My answer assumes that the stack is solid, that is, that the center eggs are filled in, not replaced with a wire stand or some crumpled paper…
And that they’ve been stacked in what, to me, is the logical formation.
And that the back is complete where we can’t see it.
Even that those are all eggs, not fakes, so it’s not a trick question.
And how will we know if we failed?
I agree.
Or, it could be just the white eggs…..
I think that if so, it would say “how many white eggs”, cos there’s no logical reason to deny the egginess of the others.
If I put 3 brown eggs and 2 white ones on the table, and say “How many eggs?”, I can’t picture anyone saying “Two.”
That was my number also.
agreed -30
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We are your homies. You’re always welcome around us.
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A giant baobab tree!
They live thousands of years, storing many thousands of gallons of water in those enormous trunks so they can make it through hard times.
I will always remember them because The Little Prince was worried that they were going to grow so huge on his tiny planet that they would break it up, and destroy it.
….
Since posting the above, I did an image search, and found sites claiming that this is a particular baobab in Tanzania, though some say Senegal, that is 6,000 years old, making it the oldest tree on Earth.
However, Snopes refutes that claim, and Smithsonian magazine never mentions it in an article about the oldest trees in the world.
OTOH, baobabs have spongy interiors, with no growth rings, so previously were not included in such studies.
…
Scientists just started carbon dating them in the late 20th century, many not till recently…so theres a chance this information is simply newer
I kind of doubt it, though.
But if it ever turns out to be true… You saw it here!
Wikipedia identifies a particular baobab in Zimbabwe as the oldest angiosperm (broad leafed tree) on earth at 2419 years old. Several gymnosperms (conifers) are older…
Yes… Gymnosperms tend to live longer, free from the apparently wearying cycle of flowering and fruiting, which diverts energy.
And baobabs live the longest of flowering plants, partly due to the consistent water holding nature of their tissue, and the randomness of their life cycles, which don’t create the drought/wet changes that cause annual rings.
Clonal trees, in some ways, live the longest… But only their root systems, which produce new stems while older ones die..
You can’t point to a single stem and say this is an ancient tree.
Meanwhile, back in the heart of the city…
Yay!
Sam Basset is back… trying to puzzle it all out, in detective fashion.
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Right, Sam… why would Miss Behave want to throw you off the trail… or even (gasp!) do you in?
Do you think she might have an ulterior motive?
Or perhaps be just using you?
Do you think she’s AFTER something?
Do you think she wants to find it before YOU do?
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I think the question boils down to… DO YOU THINK?
Or are you just led around by your …
… um…. you know… your attraction to a lovely female dog?
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Right now, you’re fired up by indignation, and curiosity.
You have tough questions… and your very life may depend on the answers…
to say nothing of a small fortune, embodied in that supposedly cursed artifact.
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Miss Behave may have the answers you need.
When you walk in her door… remember: FOCUS.
She’s not just a beautiful female dog…
she’s a lying …um… “female dog”.
And resting, she has the face for that?
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