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Old 17-Sep-2007   #7
AlainK
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Originally Posted by pepedog
ehh?? Cryptography is not my forte.
Read this unfortunately true story on the same page:

"In 1964 a geology student...
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When his coring tool jammed inside a massive tree, he asked for, and received, permission from the US Forest Service to cut the tree off at 2.4 metres above the ground and keep a horizontal slab for study.
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Later cores taken closer to ground level by dendrochronologist Don Graybill showed it to be 4,862 years old - the oldest living thing ever discovered."



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