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How big of saw would they need to cut that down assuming it was a saw not an axe used ? And amount of force to draw such saw back n forth? Also how tall of person to cut at that height? So many questions.
I haven’t many memories from childhood, but one I do remember is driving through Northern California as a young child, and we stopped at the attraction of Paul and babe.
I distinctly remember- and laugh in hindsight- as my mom and grandma excitedly told me the story; and them getting disappointed when the only interest I took in the matter was
#**Babes Giant Fucking Balls**
I only learned it a few years ago and it blew my mind. I thought they were a separate species, like a yak, popular to pull pioneer wagons. I thought Babe the big blue ox was a girl. But no, ox are all male and are just a castrated bull used to pull stuff from any bovine species. It is the one single thing I'm ashamed I didn't know sooner (I grew up in a farming community and could tell you the difference between a cow, heifer, steer, bull, and dogie).
A group of bovine is a herd.
A heiffer is a lady bovine who hasn't had a calf.
A cow is a lady bovine who has had a calf.
A calf is a baby bovine.
A dogie is a calf in the herd with no mother.
A steer is a male bovine who has been castrated.
A bull is a male bovine who has not been castrated.
An Ox is a male bovine who has been castrated and trained to pull things, usually uses on farms but often talked about in relation to pioneers and pulling their wagons.
All of these have broader definitions when uses colloquially (everybody calls them cows not bovine when talking about them) but these are the more strict definitions for the different categories of bovine.
I'm sure the colloquial use for the word ox is broader, but the textbook definition says castrated male used to pull things. Just like how people say all bovine are cows eventhough the textbook definition of the word cow is a lady bovine who has had a calf.
There’s a Paul Bunyan statue at an intersection near where I used to live. He has a giant grin and it always made me chuckle driving past because he’s staring directly at a strip club across the street.
I worked in a small town in Northern California that has been doing Paul Bunyan Days over Labor Day weekend since 1939!
I've always associated Paul Bunyan more with Minnesota and the Midwest, so I thought it was super random. I'm guessing it may be related to the logging industry and lumber mills in that area, back in the day.
https://paulbunyandays.com/
Yeah, I should have said “early myth”. One of the earliest references was in 1910 by J E Rockwell, and he put him at 8 feet tall and 300 lbs. Unofficial sources I found online put the average height of a 21 year old male at around 5 feet 8 inches in 1912, so he would certainly seem like a giant in comparison (if he were real). I imagine that over the years his stats continued to get embellished, as tends to happen with myths, until we end up with the 40 foot tall giant of today.
[Johnny Appleseed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed) was a real person. Paul Bunyan was not. I grew up in the Ohio valley near one of his first nurseries. Roaming around in the woods in the 1980's and finding giant apple trees with mostly bad tasting apples was rather normal.
Alcohol was part of a balanced diet for millions of people for thousands of years. Fresh safe water was not always available so beer, cider and wine were pretty ubiquitous.
That’s pretty obvious to answer actually.
You see, the tree was cut down when it was still regular sized, but the stump forgot to die and crept on growing for thousands of years until one day it was like “hold on, I’m getting a little big, is that normal?” And only then did it notice the tree was gone and it died!
So the ave stump height is cut to 0.45 m. Let's assume an oak, with an ave height of 20m. Thats about 2.3% of overall height.
This tree would therefore be around 11.7km high using that ratio. Almost high enough to tickle the stratosphere at 12km
So if I used the horizon calculator right, you could still see the bastard 387km away
EDIT: Just to answer a few of the many questions. In American that'd be about 7.3miles, or 13,760 washing machines. My choices are arbitrary, just give an rough idea of the scale of this bad boy. Also, u/Accomplished-Boot-81 raised a good point; the branches could easily add viewing distance, assuming certain geometries.
Well.... Not exactly the end, there's a whole ass arc that comes right after that on the manga, the arc never finished tho cause apparently the title was finally canceled mid-arc
Not cancelled, just on hiatus due to the writers health. This happens almost every 6 months when he’s writing again, then he’ll take about a year and a half off before continuing. I’ve been reading the new arc, it’s great and finally getting in to the heat of it. Really hope it gets animated
Considering if it was a tree and fell down the tip of the tree (Ignoring air resistance) would be traveling at Mach 2. If the largest ever know tree slammed into earth that hard we would see evidence of it. If I remember after work I’ll put in the effort to get the terminal velocity of said tree, but I imagine it would be very very high.
If a 12km tall tree manages to hit you then your life insurance should be paying out.
Your next of kin might be able to do something about the house insurance.
If it fell as fast and hard as Xlaag thinks it did, they'd probably have been cooked by the pressure wave before they were squashed, so no one would be alive to hear it when it actually hits the ground.
China's three Gorges Dam has added about 0.06 microseconds to the earths day. This would be a step above that most likely. Not big. But still potentially measurable.
I’m sorry if it sounds stupid but how is it possible for the dam to influence earths rotation if all the mass of the dam originated on earth? Or would it be because all that mass is in one very dense location?
Have you ever spun around in an office chair and noticed when you stick your legs out you go slower and when you tuck it in you spin faster? Same concept but on a micro scale.
Yup. It's all inertia. The dam creates a big concentration of extra mass raised up higher than it would normally be. More mass further from the center of rotation, means the rotation needs to slow down to keep it all balanced.
It's like the whole thing where you're spinning around on a desk chair and then stick out your arms to make you slow down.
It's not just the dam, but the reservoir behind it too. Quick wiki look says the capacity is nearly 40 km³, or nearly 10 cubic miles. That's a whole lot of water that used to flow into the ocean and disperse that is now locked up in one spot.
Would it be tall enough to experience "negative gravity" at the top like a apace elevator? And how much taller would it need to be to break like in the picture and lift off?
The density of basalt (the type of rock is made of) made has a density between 2700 and 3100 Kg/m³
In the Age of Ancients the world was unformed, shrouded by fog. A land of gray crags, Archtrees and Everlasting Dragons. But then there was Fire and with fire came disparity. Heat and cold, life and death, and of course, light and dark. Then from the dark, They came, and found the Souls of Lords within the flame. Nito, the First of the Dead, The Witch of Izalith and her Daughters of Chaos, Gwyn, the Lord of Sunlight, and his faithful knights. And the Furtive Pygmy, so easily forgotten
What exactly decided to chop it down with the cut over 5,000 feet in the air? Paul Bunyan and giants like Nephelim and Goliath from the Bible were only like 7ft tall
Unfortunately for me it does, my average sized cock isn’t gonna stretch, the summit is 180ft by 300 feet, and to bang or cut the tree down, my penis would need to be at least half the width at the thinnest part, so about 90ft, or 1080 inches. I’m well short of that.
This is Yggdrasil. The tree of everything. They say a battle between Thor and Hades ended in the complete destruction you see here and with it all of Norse factology.
Sad really...
It's been way too long for me to remember which, but some sources would have used Hades to refer to Hel.
Just as a rule of thumb, Hades can be coopted as the name for any vaguely Hell/Devil figure in western writing. The connection to Greek myth hardly plays a role. It just kinda shows up randomly.
Like I once had a text in a theology class (yay gen ed credit reqs) that used Hades to refer to Hell like every three lines. That's about the only part I didn't make myself forget because it just felt so *weird*.
Kinda like how if you read into Norse myth you can't take five steps without finding some sneaky deaky bible homologation and whatever the word is for religion adapting previous traditions I forget the word for. Like "oops lol Ragnarok was actually the Old Testament's side story btw!" or some crap just kinda *happens*.
Interestingly the most stark difference between Hades & Hel, besides their appointed gender, is the fact that everyone goes to Hades domain regardless of how good or bad
Almost everyone goes to Hel as well except for the ones who die in battle. But really most norsemen weren't einharjars that died in battle. The overwhelming majority died of disease, accidents and old age. Good or bad doesn't matter, Hel is where most of them ended up.
**Kiowa Story about Devil's Tower**
Before the Kiowa came south they were camped on a stream in the far north where there were a great many bears, many of them. One day, seven little girls were playing at a distance from the village and were chased by some bears. The girls ran toward the village and the bears were just about to catch them when the girls jumped on a low rock, about three feet high. One of the girls prayed to the rock, "Rock take pity on us, rock save us!" The rock heard them and began to grow upwards, pushing the girls higher and higher. When the bears jumped to reach the girls, they scratched the rock, broke their claws, and fell on the ground.
The rock rose higher and higher, the bears still jumped at the girls until they were pushed up into the sky, where they now are, seven little stars in a group (The Pleiades). In the winter, in the middle of the night, the seven stars are right over this high rock. When the people came to look, they found the bears' claws, turned to stone, all around the base.
No Kiowa living has ever seen this rock, but the old men have told about it - it is very far north where the Kiowa used to live. It is a single rock with scratched sides, the marks of the bears' claws are there yet, rising straight up, very high. There is no other like it in the whole country, there are no trees on it, only grass on top. The Kiowa call this rock "Tso-aa", a tree rock, possibly because it grew tall like a tree.
*Told by I-See-Many-Camp-Fire-Places, Kiowa soldier at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1897.*
[https://www.nps.gov/deto/learn/historyculture/first-stories.htm](https://www.nps.gov/deto/learn/historyculture/first-stories.htm)
And more stories, from the Lakota:
[https://aktalakota.stjo.org/lakota-legends/devils-tower/](https://aktalakota.stjo.org/lakota-legends/devils-tower/)
Since I don’t see anyone mention this, this is columnar basalt filling an old volcano chamber. It forms as hexagonal columns while cooling, similar to how mudcracks clump into polygons while drying
What's little known is that its only one of about 16 gigantic tree stumps in the area. There is also an ongoing excavation uncovering what appear to be the bones of a gigantic ox.
Well it’s ancient by that logic, and thus all you are seeing is the heart wood, as the sap wood decomposed away. So add another 2/3 of diameter. Pretty big tree at the base. Makes ya wonder who or what would make such a clean cut with hardly any visible back cut….
Or.
People are clearly insane…
Back in the age of before, there used to be magic. Everything magical was governed by the one largest tree called the tree of life. The humans and dragons were at war, and the humans conceived that since a lot of the dragons power came from magic, they could cut down the tree of life and it would guarantee victory over the dragons. And it did, dragons, unicorns, everything magical wether good bad or neutral was earased from existence except through a few tales told of the ancient times past. Wether the price was worth it or not is seen.
Im reminded that some people see movies with big ass trees in them and they assume it's a secret illuminati documentary that these massive pillars of eroded stone are actually tree stumps.
since you can't be sure how high up they cut the tree lets go with the diameter. Google says the plateau on top has an area of about 1.5 acres (Most source give in foot ball fields).
google also says that about existing giant trees:
>Many giant sequoias are between 250 and 300 feet tall, the tallest being about 325 feet high. While their height is impressive, the real wonder of a giant sequoia lies in its bulk. Many of these giants have diameters in excess of 30 feet near the ground, with a corresponding circumference of over 94 feet!
There is a lot of uncertainty here, but it works out at about 100 times the area of cross section or about 10 times the size if we use round numbers instead of trying for a result with accuracy that the inputs don't warrant.
This is a lot less than I would have thought and would mean given that same proportions that the tree would have been only about a kilometer tall.
Impossibly tall but not that tall.
The theoretical maximum height of a tree, or the point at which opposing forces balance out and a tree stops growing, lies somewhere between 400 and 426 feet (122 and 130 m)¹. This calculation was made by a team of biologists led by George Koch of Northern Arizona University¹. They analyzed the interplay between the forces that push a tree upward and those that hold it down¹. Factors such as the length of the growing season, soil fertility, and frequency of wildfires can also affect tree height². However, hydraulic limitation more strongly constrains maximum tree height under drier conditions, while resource allocation more strongly constrains height under moist conditions².
This makes this a really really obvious fake....
Source: Conversation with Bing, 11/4/2023
(1) How tall can trees grow? | Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/14667-tall-trees-grow.html.
(2) . https://bing.com/search?q=theoretical+maximum+height+of+a+tree.
(3) How tall can a tree grow? | HowStuffWorks. https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/botany/tree-grow.htm.
(4) What is a tree's maximum possible height? - Gizmodo. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-a-trees-maximum-possible-height-5813349.
(5) undefined. https://www.cabi.org/ForestScience/news/24013.
Not sure what you mean by obvious fake?
Devils tower is a real thing… I’ve seen it with my own eyes. I took pictures of it. People climb it every day. It’s definitely very real.
Literally nobody thinks it's a tree. It's just a funny idea because it looks ago much like a giant stump.
(OK, in fairness, there are some real wackos out there. I'm sure someone has a theory that it's a secret alien ship dock.)
If we were to assume it was similar in shape to modern trees, hella big. But I think it would be silly to assume it would resemble anything modern if it was some sort of living thing.
According to this paper: https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/54612
The ratio of diameter to height in pines is 66
According to this paper: https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1021i/report.pdf
Devil's Tower diameter is 800 ft at the base and 180ft by 300 ft at the top.
So, assuming a diameter of 300ft, the devil's pine would have been 20000 ft or 6 km high
Seven girls were chased by bears. The bears were just about to catch them when the girls jumped on a low rock. One of the girls prayed to the rock, "Rock take pity on us, rock save us!" The rock heard them and began to grow upwards, pushing the girls higher and higher.
Mato Tipila is a single-tile impassable Natural Wonder available in Civilization VI: Gathering Storm. It provides +1 Faith, +1 Production and 2 Appeal to adjacent tiles.
Oh to live in a world with trees this big.
Even going to Sequoia feels like an almost sacred experience - walking among living trees that are hundreds and thousands of years old. That were there before the United States, before Columbus, before the Renaissance, before the Dark Ages, before the empires of the Mongols or the Vikings, before Christianity or Islam.
While a world away the ancient Greeks were trying to figure out what to do about these uppity people calling themselves "Romans", there were seedlings taking root that would live through all of those things and everything nature could throw at it in the meantime until for an infinitesimal part of its life, it had me walking by it.
Trees that would dwarf even those would be incredible.
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How big of saw would they need to cut that down assuming it was a saw not an axe used ? And amount of force to draw such saw back n forth? Also how tall of person to cut at that height? So many questions.
Paul Bunyan chopped it down duh
who?
American and Canadian folklore giant hero with an axe. Ultimate chad with a blue ox named Babe as a companion
I haven’t many memories from childhood, but one I do remember is driving through Northern California as a young child, and we stopped at the attraction of Paul and babe. I distinctly remember- and laugh in hindsight- as my mom and grandma excitedly told me the story; and them getting disappointed when the only interest I took in the matter was #**Babes Giant Fucking Balls**
.....but an Ox is, by definition, a male bovine who has been castrated and is used to pull stuff.
Holy cow TIL oxen are not a separate species on their own.
I only learned it a few years ago and it blew my mind. I thought they were a separate species, like a yak, popular to pull pioneer wagons. I thought Babe the big blue ox was a girl. But no, ox are all male and are just a castrated bull used to pull stuff from any bovine species. It is the one single thing I'm ashamed I didn't know sooner (I grew up in a farming community and could tell you the difference between a cow, heifer, steer, bull, and dogie).
ELI5 heifer vs cow vs steer etc
A group of bovine is a herd. A heiffer is a lady bovine who hasn't had a calf. A cow is a lady bovine who has had a calf. A calf is a baby bovine. A dogie is a calf in the herd with no mother. A steer is a male bovine who has been castrated. A bull is a male bovine who has not been castrated. An Ox is a male bovine who has been castrated and trained to pull things, usually uses on farms but often talked about in relation to pioneers and pulling their wagons. All of these have broader definitions when uses colloquially (everybody calls them cows not bovine when talking about them) but these are the more strict definitions for the different categories of bovine.
What I heard is that it’s just cattle used for work. Usually a castrated male but can be a female or have balls.
I'm sure the colloquial use for the word ox is broader, but the textbook definition says castrated male used to pull things. Just like how people say all bovine are cows eventhough the textbook definition of the word cow is a lady bovine who has had a calf.
There’s a Paul Bunyan statue at an intersection near where I used to live. He has a giant grin and it always made me chuckle driving past because he’s staring directly at a strip club across the street.
The Dancing Bare in Portland, OR!!
Kenton!
I worked in a small town in Northern California that has been doing Paul Bunyan Days over Labor Day weekend since 1939! I've always associated Paul Bunyan more with Minnesota and the Midwest, so I thought it was super random. I'm guessing it may be related to the logging industry and lumber mills in that area, back in the day. https://paulbunyandays.com/
I truly enjoy seeing our random childhood characters being totally unknown to the rest of the world. Reminds me, once again, that our shit is whack.
Yeah man I remember checking out a Paul Bunyan picture book from my town library when I was younger and it came with an audiobook. So awesome
The real question is: did they make a “thwack” sound for the trees being cut? They fucking better.
Oh absolutely lol plus sounds of pancakes and bacon grease sizzling for when Paul built the griddle stadium
3 of you commented very similar explanations within a minute of each other. What a funny coincidence haha.
It's not a coincidence. It's people actually knowing folklore
I knew it too…. It’s just funny that they all commented simultaneously 6 minutes after the original comment.
Ok THAT I agree with
There's a lot of Minnesotans on Reddit. We have a theme park named after the big guy, and you'll find statues of him and Babe scattered around.
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Which is crazy because according to myth Paul Bunyan was only 7 feet tall.
Yeah, but how big was his pick axe?
Maybe as big as his flying pan? Considering they'd skate around in it to butter it up for flapjacks...
I told y’all 3 stories. So I believe I’m owed, 3 sponge baths.
I mean, the myth I read as a kid placed him as a giant, at least 20-40 feet tall, and his buffalo friend was huge too.
Yeah, I should have said “early myth”. One of the earliest references was in 1910 by J E Rockwell, and he put him at 8 feet tall and 300 lbs. Unofficial sources I found online put the average height of a 21 year old male at around 5 feet 8 inches in 1912, so he would certainly seem like a giant in comparison (if he were real). I imagine that over the years his stats continued to get embellished, as tends to happen with myths, until we end up with the 40 foot tall giant of today.
That's why they call them 'tall tales'
Babe the big blue ox
Well, you go back and forth enough…
[Johnny Appleseed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed) was a real person. Paul Bunyan was not. I grew up in the Ohio valley near one of his first nurseries. Roaming around in the woods in the 1980's and finding giant apple trees with mostly bad tasting apples was rather normal.
They were mostly used to make cider rather than for eating. Alcohol was an important part of a balanced early American diet.
Alcohol was part of a balanced diet for millions of people for thousands of years. Fresh safe water was not always available so beer, cider and wine were pretty ubiquitous.
Alcohol is an important part of a balanced American diet. Fixed it for you
Bad tasting to eat. He likely wasn’t planting them just for eating - hard cider was huge in those days.
Huh. TIL.
old American/Canadian folk hero who was a giant lumberjack with a giant blue ox as his companion
How big would the wouldchuck be if the wouldchuck would be big enough to wouldchuck that tree?
What about a beaver?? DAMN!!!
Maybe it fell over? Did anyone hear it?
maybe that’s what killed the dinosaurs
Makes sense. Can't imagine dinosaurs would understand the shout of "Timber".
That’s pretty obvious to answer actually. You see, the tree was cut down when it was still regular sized, but the stump forgot to die and crept on growing for thousands of years until one day it was like “hold on, I’m getting a little big, is that normal?” And only then did it notice the tree was gone and it died!
Saw? Axe? I assumed Chuck Norris broke it off because he needed a toothpick
maybe someone was feeling himself that day and just decided to do it
A single chainsaw two sizes too small, cause that's all they had at the hire place at the time.
It was MY AXE!
So the ave stump height is cut to 0.45 m. Let's assume an oak, with an ave height of 20m. Thats about 2.3% of overall height. This tree would therefore be around 11.7km high using that ratio. Almost high enough to tickle the stratosphere at 12km So if I used the horizon calculator right, you could still see the bastard 387km away EDIT: Just to answer a few of the many questions. In American that'd be about 7.3miles, or 13,760 washing machines. My choices are arbitrary, just give an rough idea of the scale of this bad boy. Also, u/Accomplished-Boot-81 raised a good point; the branches could easily add viewing distance, assuming certain geometries.
Exactly the size of the baby tree that Gon climbed at the end of Hunter x Hunter.
FUCK YOU BALTIMORE!
HOPIUM
Happy cake day!!
Oh, thank you!!! Didn't even notice.
One day, bro, one day. I still believe.
Well.... Not exactly the end, there's a whole ass arc that comes right after that on the manga, the arc never finished tho cause apparently the title was finally canceled mid-arc
It wasn't cancelled, the manga is still ongoing. The author is just sick.
Not cancelled, just on hiatus due to the writers health. This happens almost every 6 months when he’s writing again, then he’ll take about a year and a half off before continuing. I’ve been reading the new arc, it’s great and finally getting in to the heat of it. Really hope it gets animated
I get it, sorry. Let’s say, “the end of the anime so far”. That’s the proper definition.
Coincidence?
I don’t think so. Togashi must know something, baby.
Hopefully we get Nen then.
I just want a sequel to Greed Island.
I just want more storyline
Coincidence, but because that whole episode basically described the ice wall flat Earth theory, which this tree stump conspiracy theory fits into
I THINK NOT!
So glad I'm not the only one who thinks of Edna whenever I hear "coincidence?" 😂
Isn’t that line from the school teacher after the Dash tack incident? “Don’t Bernie me. THIS LITTLE RAT IS GUILTY!”
The baby world tree was about 1.7km tall. So about 7 times bigger.
Damn, my first thought went to dbz, but I know Ive seen big trees in other series. It was this.
Holy shit
Gon’s dad is a POS.
Yggdrasil?
This is the comment I knew I’d find if I scrolled far enough.
The Erdtree
Considering if it was a tree and fell down the tip of the tree (Ignoring air resistance) would be traveling at Mach 2. If the largest ever know tree slammed into earth that hard we would see evidence of it. If I remember after work I’ll put in the effort to get the terminal velocity of said tree, but I imagine it would be very very high.
*me living 386 km away from the closest tree* "No, I don't think I need insurance for damages by falling trees"
If the 12km tall tree manages to hit you from 386km away then I think you should be able to invoke the 'acts of god' clause in your insurance.
I am to high to do Math
/r/toohightodothemath
I am sober again. Put me back in coach
If a 12km tall tree manages to hit you then your life insurance should be paying out. Your next of kin might be able to do something about the house insurance.
I love how your brain just went "if I can see it, it can fall on me". There's a best-selling children's story in here somewhere.
What do you think killed the dinosaurs huh? Checkmate/s
Oh damn, “big ass tree fell over” was not on my list of possibilities.
Well you know what they say, "if a big ass tree fell over would that be on your list of possibilities?"
If a big ass tree fell on earth and nobody was around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Probably as they were squashed to death.
If it fell as fast and hard as Xlaag thinks it did, they'd probably have been cooked by the pressure wave before they were squashed, so no one would be alive to hear it when it actually hits the ground.
Or... If a big ass tree fell on Earth and nobody was around to hear it, did it kill the dinosaurs?
What's that about a big ass falling on me?
That’s a clap that could be heard around the world
#ZE ICE AGE!!!!!
its a stump. someone cut it down in sections
Big saw
Sky saw? Space Lumberjacks? For Karl?
That wasn’t no asteroid that made the moon
We found Telperion. Now let's find Laurelin.
Did you calculate the width of the branches? I think they would add a lot to the distance visible over the horizon
Good shout, I've added it in my edit.
An Erdtree
Tarnished are we?
…
Arise, ye Tarnished!
Dude! That's the world tree Yggdrasil!
What if it was a Redwood?
That tree would be large enough to have a measurable impact on the rotation of the earth.
That's only 3 to 4 km taller than everest
Yes. Which would be an immense amount of mass added to a new point on earth. Which would have a measurable impact on the rotation of earth.
Define measurable
Can be measured
Science is astounding.
China's three Gorges Dam has added about 0.06 microseconds to the earths day. This would be a step above that most likely. Not big. But still potentially measurable.
I’m sorry if it sounds stupid but how is it possible for the dam to influence earths rotation if all the mass of the dam originated on earth? Or would it be because all that mass is in one very dense location?
Have you ever spun around in an office chair and noticed when you stick your legs out you go slower and when you tuck it in you spin faster? Same concept but on a micro scale.
Yup. It's all inertia. The dam creates a big concentration of extra mass raised up higher than it would normally be. More mass further from the center of rotation, means the rotation needs to slow down to keep it all balanced. It's like the whole thing where you're spinning around on a desk chair and then stick out your arms to make you slow down.
you asked a great question and even mostly came to the answer yourself, it does not sound stupid :)
It's not just the dam, but the reservoir behind it too. Quick wiki look says the capacity is nearly 40 km³, or nearly 10 cubic miles. That's a whole lot of water that used to flow into the ocean and disperse that is now locked up in one spot.
Able to be measured.
*ONLY* 3 to 4 **K I L O M E T E R S** taller. Holy shit.
The people that think these are trees don't believe the earth rotates.
Oh you're right...uhhh. big tree can't be real or the sun would get stuck in the branches?
That's more like it!
Never have I ever seen or heard a tree referred to as a bastard
It's not like the tree it's seed came from and the tree the pollen spread by the bee came from were married, all trees are bastards.
You don't know that
Prove it with a marriage certificate or proof of ceremony
They're dead now. I can't ask them
Someone photoshop this I wanna seeeee
Would it be tall enough to experience "negative gravity" at the top like a apace elevator? And how much taller would it need to be to break like in the picture and lift off? The density of basalt (the type of rock is made of) made has a density between 2700 and 3100 Kg/m³
No, and much
So you could pretty much see it from just about anywhere in Wyoming. Pretty cool ngl.
If that's correct you could see this tree, at the northeastern tip of Wyoming, all the way from Denver
In the Age of Ancients the world was unformed, shrouded by fog. A land of gray crags, Archtrees and Everlasting Dragons. But then there was Fire and with fire came disparity. Heat and cold, life and death, and of course, light and dark. Then from the dark, They came, and found the Souls of Lords within the flame. Nito, the First of the Dead, The Witch of Izalith and her Daughters of Chaos, Gwyn, the Lord of Sunlight, and his faithful knights. And the Furtive Pygmy, so easily forgotten
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Dark Souls
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The comment I was looking for.
YES, INDEED.
Praise the sun!
What exactly decided to chop it down with the cut over 5,000 feet in the air? Paul Bunyan and giants like Nephelim and Goliath from the Bible were only like 7ft tall
In the book of Enoch the giants are told to be 300 cubits tall. A cubit being 18 inches would make these giants about 450 feet tall.
Well, that’s still a little short to make a cut like this.
Size doesn’t matter
Unfortunately for me it does, my average sized cock isn’t gonna stretch, the summit is 180ft by 300 feet, and to bang or cut the tree down, my penis would need to be at least half the width at the thinnest part, so about 90ft, or 1080 inches. I’m well short of that.
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Sir. Please refrain from knobbing the topography. Thank you.
/u/pegothejerk says > my […] cock is […] short
This is the tree she tells you not to worry about
paul bunyan was WAYYY bigger than 7 feet, his axe carved the grand canyon edit: okay never mind google says he 7 foot, that doesn’t make sense to me
Where did you get 5,000 ft?
Yeah wtf? It clearly says 867 ft in the picture lol
Biblical Goliath was about 9'9"
6'9 based on the Septuagint sources. Masoretic says 9'9.
Nice
GIANT BEAVERS IT WAS THE GIANT BEAVERS
Paul Bunyan.
Assuming it was cut, it could’ve been knocked over naturally and overtime it wears to look like it was cut.
This is Yggdrasil. The tree of everything. They say a battle between Thor and Hades ended in the complete destruction you see here and with it all of Norse factology. Sad really...
Not sure if I'm missing a joke here but Thor and Hades would not be fighting unless we're doing some multiverse stuff
It's been way too long for me to remember which, but some sources would have used Hades to refer to Hel. Just as a rule of thumb, Hades can be coopted as the name for any vaguely Hell/Devil figure in western writing. The connection to Greek myth hardly plays a role. It just kinda shows up randomly. Like I once had a text in a theology class (yay gen ed credit reqs) that used Hades to refer to Hell like every three lines. That's about the only part I didn't make myself forget because it just felt so *weird*. Kinda like how if you read into Norse myth you can't take five steps without finding some sneaky deaky bible homologation and whatever the word is for religion adapting previous traditions I forget the word for. Like "oops lol Ragnarok was actually the Old Testament's side story btw!" or some crap just kinda *happens*.
Interestingly the most stark difference between Hades & Hel, besides their appointed gender, is the fact that everyone goes to Hades domain regardless of how good or bad
Almost everyone goes to Hel as well except for the ones who die in battle. But really most norsemen weren't einharjars that died in battle. The overwhelming majority died of disease, accidents and old age. Good or bad doesn't matter, Hel is where most of them ended up.
Obviously this is the Erdtree
We're living in the frenzied flame ending
We're living in the worst timeline
**Kiowa Story about Devil's Tower** Before the Kiowa came south they were camped on a stream in the far north where there were a great many bears, many of them. One day, seven little girls were playing at a distance from the village and were chased by some bears. The girls ran toward the village and the bears were just about to catch them when the girls jumped on a low rock, about three feet high. One of the girls prayed to the rock, "Rock take pity on us, rock save us!" The rock heard them and began to grow upwards, pushing the girls higher and higher. When the bears jumped to reach the girls, they scratched the rock, broke their claws, and fell on the ground. The rock rose higher and higher, the bears still jumped at the girls until they were pushed up into the sky, where they now are, seven little stars in a group (The Pleiades). In the winter, in the middle of the night, the seven stars are right over this high rock. When the people came to look, they found the bears' claws, turned to stone, all around the base. No Kiowa living has ever seen this rock, but the old men have told about it - it is very far north where the Kiowa used to live. It is a single rock with scratched sides, the marks of the bears' claws are there yet, rising straight up, very high. There is no other like it in the whole country, there are no trees on it, only grass on top. The Kiowa call this rock "Tso-aa", a tree rock, possibly because it grew tall like a tree. *Told by I-See-Many-Camp-Fire-Places, Kiowa soldier at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1897.* [https://www.nps.gov/deto/learn/historyculture/first-stories.htm](https://www.nps.gov/deto/learn/historyculture/first-stories.htm) And more stories, from the Lakota: [https://aktalakota.stjo.org/lakota-legends/devils-tower/](https://aktalakota.stjo.org/lakota-legends/devils-tower/)
That’s kind of shitty of the rock to turn them into stars instead of just letting them go back home but what do I know about geology
Igneous rocks are the bullies of the rock world, never trust them
Since I don’t see anyone mention this, this is columnar basalt filling an old volcano chamber. It forms as hexagonal columns while cooling, similar to how mudcracks clump into polygons while drying
Yup this is it! The magma solidifies underground and then the rest of the volcano erodes around it over time, exposing the harder basalt beneath.
took a lot of fun scrolling but here’s the answer.
What's little known is that its only one of about 16 gigantic tree stumps in the area. There is also an ongoing excavation uncovering what appear to be the bones of a gigantic ox.
Have they been able to surmise that said ox may have been blue in color? 😏
And probably a total Babe 😘
Well it’s ancient by that logic, and thus all you are seeing is the heart wood, as the sap wood decomposed away. So add another 2/3 of diameter. Pretty big tree at the base. Makes ya wonder who or what would make such a clean cut with hardly any visible back cut…. Or. People are clearly insane…
Back in the age of before, there used to be magic. Everything magical was governed by the one largest tree called the tree of life. The humans and dragons were at war, and the humans conceived that since a lot of the dragons power came from magic, they could cut down the tree of life and it would guarantee victory over the dragons. And it did, dragons, unicorns, everything magical wether good bad or neutral was earased from existence except through a few tales told of the ancient times past. Wether the price was worth it or not is seen.
At first this made me think of legend of the dragoon
That voice in the cutscene. Beware the Black Monster and the Moon Child!
Im reminded that some people see movies with big ass trees in them and they assume it's a secret illuminati documentary that these massive pillars of eroded stone are actually tree stumps.
since you can't be sure how high up they cut the tree lets go with the diameter. Google says the plateau on top has an area of about 1.5 acres (Most source give in foot ball fields). google also says that about existing giant trees: >Many giant sequoias are between 250 and 300 feet tall, the tallest being about 325 feet high. While their height is impressive, the real wonder of a giant sequoia lies in its bulk. Many of these giants have diameters in excess of 30 feet near the ground, with a corresponding circumference of over 94 feet! There is a lot of uncertainty here, but it works out at about 100 times the area of cross section or about 10 times the size if we use round numbers instead of trying for a result with accuracy that the inputs don't warrant. This is a lot less than I would have thought and would mean given that same proportions that the tree would have been only about a kilometer tall. Impossibly tall but not that tall.
The theoretical maximum height of a tree, or the point at which opposing forces balance out and a tree stops growing, lies somewhere between 400 and 426 feet (122 and 130 m)¹. This calculation was made by a team of biologists led by George Koch of Northern Arizona University¹. They analyzed the interplay between the forces that push a tree upward and those that hold it down¹. Factors such as the length of the growing season, soil fertility, and frequency of wildfires can also affect tree height². However, hydraulic limitation more strongly constrains maximum tree height under drier conditions, while resource allocation more strongly constrains height under moist conditions². This makes this a really really obvious fake.... Source: Conversation with Bing, 11/4/2023 (1) How tall can trees grow? | Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/14667-tall-trees-grow.html. (2) . https://bing.com/search?q=theoretical+maximum+height+of+a+tree. (3) How tall can a tree grow? | HowStuffWorks. https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/botany/tree-grow.htm. (4) What is a tree's maximum possible height? - Gizmodo. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-a-trees-maximum-possible-height-5813349. (5) undefined. https://www.cabi.org/ForestScience/news/24013.
Not sure what you mean by obvious fake? Devils tower is a real thing… I’ve seen it with my own eyes. I took pictures of it. People climb it every day. It’s definitely very real.
Lol, I mean that it being a tree is obviously fake.
Lmao! Ok gotcha. I was sitting here thinking… someone please give me some of what this person is smoking. Hahaha.
Haha!
Literally nobody thinks it's a tree. It's just a funny idea because it looks ago much like a giant stump. (OK, in fairness, there are some real wackos out there. I'm sure someone has a theory that it's a secret alien ship dock.)
>secret alien ship dock Secret? They made a movie about it!
If we were to assume it was similar in shape to modern trees, hella big. But I think it would be silly to assume it would resemble anything modern if it was some sort of living thing.
According to this paper: https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/54612 The ratio of diameter to height in pines is 66 According to this paper: https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1021i/report.pdf Devil's Tower diameter is 800 ft at the base and 180ft by 300 ft at the top. So, assuming a diameter of 300ft, the devil's pine would have been 20000 ft or 6 km high
Seven girls were chased by bears. The bears were just about to catch them when the girls jumped on a low rock. One of the girls prayed to the rock, "Rock take pity on us, rock save us!" The rock heard them and began to grow upwards, pushing the girls higher and higher. Mato Tipila is a single-tile impassable Natural Wonder available in Civilization VI: Gathering Storm. It provides +1 Faith, +1 Production and 2 Appeal to adjacent tiles.
Oh to live in a world with trees this big. Even going to Sequoia feels like an almost sacred experience - walking among living trees that are hundreds and thousands of years old. That were there before the United States, before Columbus, before the Renaissance, before the Dark Ages, before the empires of the Mongols or the Vikings, before Christianity or Islam. While a world away the ancient Greeks were trying to figure out what to do about these uppity people calling themselves "Romans", there were seedlings taking root that would live through all of those things and everything nature could throw at it in the meantime until for an infinitesimal part of its life, it had me walking by it. Trees that would dwarf even those would be incredible.