Nathilus posted:

Some dick grad student cut down the oldest tree known to exist, half a century ago. We've since found older clonal colonies of other kinds of tree but to this date it's the oldest individual tree that has ever been found.

I'd tell you to go join a "destroy things that are outside the scope of our human scale of life cuz we're dicks" club with him, but not even he was a big enough dick to kill it intentionally and he felt hella bad after counting rings. Thing was 5k years old. It was there a thousand years before the pyramids were built. What gives anyone the right to gently caress with a living thing that old? Mondo uncool. Major hubris alert.