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Who or what is the Oldest Living Thing on Earth?

Seagrass found in the Meditteranean is possibly 200,000 yrs old?

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February 8, 2012 5:38:45 AM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums

Old enough to see the rise of Man. Wow!

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Reply #1 February 8, 2012 6:38:52 AM
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Quoting ,
quoting post

Who or what is the Oldest Living Thing on Earth?

Jafo.....

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Reply #2 February 8, 2012 6:51:38 AM
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Not since BoXXi's birthday...

Then again, Jafo is showing fossilization around the edges...

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Reply #3 February 8, 2012 12:16:33 PM
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Larry King  {to obvious}     Tony Bennet  {nope}    Sesame Street, yup that's it.     

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Reply #4 February 8, 2012 12:29:25 PM
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Something when mankind searches for things like the oldrst living thing I wonder if they look past seeing the newest living thing.   

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Reply #5 February 8, 2012 2:04:00 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristlecone_pine

Crazy old.

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Reply #6 February 8, 2012 2:22:53 PM
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Crazy old.

Yep, having lived in Nevada for 16+ years, I've seen many of these. Some are 2000-5000 years old. As dead as those trees look, they are very much alive. They survive dozens of lightening strikes.

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Reply #7 February 8, 2012 2:52:00 PM
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Redwoods in Northern California. Some of them pass the two thousand year mark.

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Reply #8 February 8, 2012 5:13:27 PM
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We have a plant down here that is 40,000+ years old, its so old that it has fossilized fragments near the living plant. The Kings Holly is sterile and survives by cloning itself ... so it sort of cheats when it comes down to age. We do have Huon Pine, some of them are 2,000 + years.

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Reply #9 February 8, 2012 7:36:16 PM
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Quoting tazgecko,
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We have a plant down here that is 40,000+ years old, its so old that it has fossilized fragments near the living plant.

Yes....I'm Tasmanian .....

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Reply #10 February 8, 2012 7:55:27 PM
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But to qualify you have to be still alive...

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Reply #11 February 8, 2012 8:45:31 PM
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Who or what is the Oldest Living Thing on Earth?

Doc... without a doubt.  His 1st hands-on medical experience was the removal of Cheops [think Great Pyramids] internal organs in preparation for their interment into the awaiting canopic jars.

Not too far behind would be Jafo.... he was a regular track marshal during Rome's F1 season.  The chariots weren't as fast as today's F1s, but the crashes were still spectacular.... and he has Ben Hur's autograph.

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Reply #12 February 8, 2012 8:54:38 PM
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I know some dipshit torched a tree in the US recently that was several thousand years old.

I know what I'd do to him.....little fucker deserves to die.

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Reply #13 February 8, 2012 9:53:19 PM
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I know some dipshit torched a tree in the US recently that was several thousand years old.

I know what I'd do to him.....little fucker deserves to die.

Yeah, but I don't agree with killing people....

.... but then, if he were tied across a busy railroad track, I probably wouldn't feel inclined to save him.

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Reply #14 February 8, 2012 10:24:25 PM
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Yeah, but I don't agree with killing people....

3000 - odd years makes that tree a more significant entity than some disgruntled fire-bug.

ALL firebugs should be executed outright.

Arson should be a capital crime.   I went to school with one.... fortunately for Australia he did us all a favour with heroin.

 

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Reply #15 February 8, 2012 11:59:24 PM
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3000 - odd years makes that tree a more significant entity than some disgruntled fire-bug.

True.... but to take his life would make us no better than he is at the end of the day.

Simply put, no matter how despicable or low it is, life is life.... but there's nothing wrong with 40 years productive hard labour.... and the firebug will remember every day of it, which is more than he'd do if he were dead/executed.

So, COS, how wos them chariot races?

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Reply #16 February 9, 2012 1:26:45 AM
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fortunately for Australia he did us all a favour with heroin.

 

and they say drugs are bad

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