Meet Pando, not a forest but a single tree. Every trunk of the Quaking Aspen is genetically identical & connected by a single 80,000 year old root system, making it one of the largest and oldest living entities on Earth!
I wish I was a single 80,000 year old root system
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Fontos
Tag yourself
southern forest lads
This ad: “The great American forest is closer than you think”
North Dakota:
guys. im so fucked up rn. i was watching this video of this guy exploring that one suicide forest in japan when suddenly he comes across this little picture of rin kaenbyou that someone left behind
i was like. oh. is that rin? huh.
but then i realized what she does and now i’m just… spooked because it’s so ironic in a really dark fucked up way
are you an ocean or forest person? are you an ice cream or slushie person? are you a sunrise or sunset person?
in the wake of that horrible youtube video, it’s important to support suicidal people and remember suicide victims. i don’t know who that man was but his life shouldn’t be a footnote under the event of this scandal. his life was important.
yo click that link from op. it’s a really amazing and very respectful 20 minute Vice documentary that goes into this forest, its history, its significance, and the topic of suicide. if you can handle the subject matter, it’s a very enlightening piece that gives much needed context to this whole youtube mess.
This is simultaneously comforting and uncomfortable
A clear river flowing with leaves
Runs through a red forest of trees
Such a vision of maple
Is a boon if you’re able
To sit still and attain inner peace
Anyone with a 7th grade education and brain capable of logical thinking understands this
we legit went over this in my college biology class and they tried to pretend like the trees somehow weren’t offsetting enough even after they walked us through all the math.
stop cutting down trees for solar and wind farms. stop cutting down trees for lithium mines. shoot, stop cutting down trees for agriculture. wasn’t that a thing back in the 90’s?
Also, isn’t Australia, like, 70% desert? The fuck y'all need to cut down trees for?
i found out recently that the very first trees did not rot when they died because the microbes that decompose trees hadnt evolved yet…which makes sense but it’s weird to think about. this actually caused a huge change in the climate at the time and many of these trees turned into coal because of it…
like imagine a tree falling in the forest and the trunk just stays there for years and years with little change, and it only goes away when it is buried under dirt. that’s weird.
obviously they were still working on the worldbuilding back then
imagine all the lag from those trunks laying around. glad they patched those microbes in
So y'all talk about this like it’s a joke, but the exact same time is happening today with plastics, except today’s microbes are a bit quicker on the uptake. They’re still new at it, but Earth’s decomposers are hard at work learning how to eat polyester.
*ancient microbe voice* kids these days have it so easy. mutating to feed on new materials within a century? In my day it took us a millenium at minimum! we had to metabolize uphill in the snow both ways!
*even more ancient microbe voice* pfeh, typical oxygen-breather attitude. you think you had it rough but YOU have those fancy MITOCHONDRIA.
forest
Fontos
Tag yourself
southern forest lads
This ad: “The great American forest is closer than you think”
North Dakota:
Nebraska: home of arbor day, apparently
it makes sense that you’d want a day dedicated to planting more trees when you only have a dozen or so in your state
The overt bias around this mock "debate" is entirely unprecedented in a western democracy; banning the public and press from seeing whatever shifty tricks CNN pull to edit Trump and try make Biden look less senile and ridiculous.
I really hope someone somehow smuggles a camera in and records what really takes place. Even an unedited audio recording would be internet gold.
I sincerely hope that Trump will have a recording made of it and then release it tomorrow.
People have been saying surely someone on his team can record it on their phone.
What the hell has America come to, where this kind of crookedness is tolerated at a public debate for the highest office in the land?
Even the WH press corps is unhappy with this one, almost shocking.
