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willmeyers 17 hours ago [-]
I didn't get to mention this in my post, but what I love most about being alive today is being able to walk outside and ask a question like "where's the tallest tree?" Then come up with some answer after a couple days of analysis. Questions that you thought were impossible to answer are now in a way answerable.
prattmic 21 hours ago [-]
I wonder how accurate the locations are in this LiDAR dataset and/or the Queens Giant Wikipedia article. The Alley Pond Park candidate looks suspiciously close to the the Queens Giant, so I wonder if it's actually picking the same tree?
markstock 19 hours ago [-]
The (typically government) agencies that pay for these scans create specifications for the data to meet. This is not hard to find. IIRC the accuracy is generally less than 0.1m (though the precision is usually 0.01 meters or feet).
dmvjs 3 hours ago [-]
knowing how tall the tallest tree is instead of which is the tallest tree seems useful
One of these is on my usual walking route and I had no idea. After reading this, I looked at it carefully and was wowed. These things can hide in plain sight, but I appreciated having my attention drawn to it. It's great!
saghm 19 hours ago [-]
You genuinely think that we should never measure trees because it might increase the risk of people cutting them down?
serf 18 hours ago [-]
>You genuinely think that we should never measure trees because it might increase the risk of people cutting them down?
no, parent said that the list isn't a great idea, not the act of measurement.
saghm 18 hours ago [-]
Okay, so we should measure the trees, but not write down what we find out (or write it down and hide it from everyone)? That framing isn't any less bizarre to me
phdelightful 19 hours ago [-]
We should still have some public monuments even with the risk of them being vandalized.
Razengan 14 hours ago [-]
Heck the Pyramids were vandalized by the Romans...
> The tree was at least 4,862 years old and possibly more than 5,000. It was cut down in 1964 by a graduate student and United States Forest Service personnel for research purposes. Those involved did not know of its world-record age before the cutting, and the circumstances and decision-making process remain controversial.
I remember reading about another tree that was thousands of years old but it was cut/burned after its age was published/popularized..
KylerAce 14 hours ago [-]
The article at least shows it's very plausible that the people who cut it down didn't know that this particular tree was record breaking, only that the type of trees in that area were known to be extremely old
Kiidk'yaas, also known as the Golden Spruce is an example.
The article conveniently links to a list of individual trees.
Razengan 10 hours ago [-]
> Kiidk'yaas was felled in January 1997 by Grant Hadwin as an act of protest against the logging industry.
What a fucking moron
Ah but there's hope:
> In 1977 a group of botanists from the University of British Columbia (UBC) visited Haida Gwaii to take cuttings of Kiidk'yaas.[5] These cuttings were grafted onto ordinary Sitka spruce, resulting in two golden saplings.
One of these is on my usual walking route and I had no idea. After reading this, I looked at it carefully and was wowed. These things can hide in plain sight, but I appreciated having my attention drawn to it. It's great!
no, parent said that the list isn't a great idea, not the act of measurement.
> The tree was at least 4,862 years old and possibly more than 5,000. It was cut down in 1964 by a graduate student and United States Forest Service personnel for research purposes. Those involved did not know of its world-record age before the cutting, and the circumstances and decision-making process remain controversial.
I remember reading about another tree that was thousands of years old but it was cut/burned after its age was published/popularized..
Kiidk'yaas, also known as the Golden Spruce is an example.
The article conveniently links to a list of individual trees.
What a fucking moron
Ah but there's hope:
> In 1977 a group of botanists from the University of British Columbia (UBC) visited Haida Gwaii to take cuttings of Kiidk'yaas.[5] These cuttings were grafted onto ordinary Sitka spruce, resulting in two golden saplings.
The Tree of Gondor!