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01-07-2019 , 05:03 PM

#4201

ncboiler

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Originally Posted by jalfrezi

After whales have become extinct there will still be a largest mammal.

Exactly!

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01-07-2019 , 05:05 PM

#4202

Garick

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01-09-2019 , 02:54 PM

#4203

JudgeHoldem

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This was a deep dive for me : murderous Mormon offshoot/cult in Mexico

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church...he_Lamb_of_God

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01-09-2019 , 03:24 PM

#4204

Punker

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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_o...n%C3%A9r%C3%A9

This page led me down a wikihole of "Famous trees". This one (and the guy who cut it down) is a weird tale:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiidk%27yaas

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01-09-2019 , 03:33 PM

#4205

Booker Wolfbox

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Originally Posted by JudgeHoldem

This was a deep dive for me : murderous Mormon offshoot/cult in Mexico

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church...he_Lamb_of_God

An excellent read with a deeply unsatisfying ending.

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01-09-2019 , 03:56 PM

#4206

Howard Treesong

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Originally Posted by JudgeHoldem

This was a deep dive for me : murderous Mormon offshoot/cult in Mexico

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church...he_Lamb_of_God

I recommend Jon Krakauer’s Under The Banner of Heaven.

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01-09-2019 , 04:18 PM

#4207

microbet

Solar Powered

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 56,485

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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_o...n%C3%A9r%C3%A9

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The Tree of Ténéré was knocked down by a drunk Libyan truck driver in 1973.[5] On November 8, 1973, the dead tree was moved to the Niger National Museum in the capital Niamey.[4]

They knocked down the tree and put it in a tree museum.

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01-09-2019 , 10:29 PM

#4208

Garick

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And the charge the people a dollar fifty to see 'em.

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01-10-2019 , 12:22 AM

#4209

Bluegrassplayer

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They might as well pave this paradise and put a parking lot.

I wonder how, even if drunk, someone runs into it at enough speed to knock it down.

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01-10-2019 , 12:28 AM

#4210

Howard Treesong

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There is something comical about a drunk running a truck into the only tree within a hundred miles.

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01-10-2019 , 12:41 AM

#4211

JayTeeMe

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Originally Posted by Punker

This page led me down a wikihole of "Famous trees". This one (and the guy who cut it down) is a weird tale:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiidk%27yaas

I do not understand that guy's motivation. He was against logging so he cuts down the tree? Or for logging so he cuts down the tree. I'm not getting it.

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Originally Posted by Howard Treesong

There is something comical about a drunk running a truck into the only tree within a hundred miles.

Right?

The nearest tree is over 400km away, so it's the only tree in a (pi x 400^2) km area.

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01-10-2019 , 01:39 AM

#4212

suzzer99

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Yeah but it was next to the well. So it was probably bound to happen.

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01-10-2019 , 03:07 PM

#4213

BigSoonerFan

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I'm sure before it happened, he said the local version of "Hey, Y'all, watch this."

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01-10-2019 , 11:28 PM

#4214

daveT

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Originally Posted by JudgeHoldem

This was a deep dive for me : murderous Mormon offshoot/cult in Mexico

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church...he_Lamb_of_God

To Ervil's surprise, Joel's followers did not flock to his side; instead they advocated for Ervil's arrest.

well... okay. The story gets crazier by the paragraph.

I want to buy the book now.

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01-11-2019 , 06:27 AM

#4215

crazy canuck

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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe

I do not understand that guy's motivation. He was against logging so he cuts down the tree? Or for logging so he cuts down the tree. I'm not getting it.

Couldn't find a job and had signs of mental illness. Wasn't diagnosed with anything, but as a policeman said (see article below):

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He wasn't suicidal, but I could tell he was a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

I did read The Golden Spruce (Book) and I think it does mention that he had a psychotic episode(s) with some religious awakening of sorts.

A good summary is this article (book is much better tho):

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...e-golden-bough

While thinking about trees, I had to check the oldest one.

Wiki's List of Oldest Trees

Apparently, the oldest tree is a clonal colony (a group of genetically identical individuals) that is also the largest organism on the plant:

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We therefore recently nominated one particular aspen individual growing just south of the Wasatch Mountains of Utah as the most massive living organism in the world. We nicknamed it Pando, a Latin word meaning I spread. Made up of 47,000 tree trunks, each with an ordinary tree’s usual complement of leaves and branches, Pando covers 106 acres and, conservatively, weighs in excess of 13 million pounds, making it 15 times heavier than the Washington fungus and nearly 3 times heavier than the largest giant sequoia.

http://discovermagazine.com/1993/oct...emblinggian285

If one excludes clonal colonies, then the oldest tree is 5,068 years old and is a Great Basin bristlecone pine in White Mountains, California. Wondered why Wikipedia does not have link, but found out that scientists keep its exact location hidden for its protection.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...the-world.html

Last edited by crazy canuck; 01-11-2019 at 06:44 AM.

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01-11-2019 , 11:32 PM

#4216

daveT

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If you all are into learning about cults and craziness, you may want to spend the time to watch or listen to this 4 parts series of videos on Jim Jones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhB7I54kVYA

The research she put into these videos is incredible. Even without the way it ended, the entire story about the guy is bat**** insane. Just thought I'd share.

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01-16-2019 , 12:44 AM

#4217

ashley12

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Reading the article about the golden tree led me to this page, where I have wasted the last two hours of my life. There is a list for those who went missing earlier, but personally I found it more interesting/shocking when people go missing in todays information age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...sly:_post-1970

This was one of the first articles and pretty intriguing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauro_De_Mauro

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Mauro De Mauro (September 6, 1921 – disappeared September 16, 1970) was an Italian investigative journalist. Originally a supporter of the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini he eventually became a journalist with the left-leaning newspaper L'Ora in Palermo. He disappeared in September 1970 and his body has not yet been found. The disappearance and probable death of the "inconvenient journalist" (giornalista scomodo) – as he became known as a result of his investigative reporting – remains one of the unsolved mysteries in Italian history.

Several explanations for his disappearance are current. One is related to the death of the president of Italy's state-owned oil and gas conglomerate ENI, Enrico Mattei. Another is that De Mauro had discovered drug trafficking between Sicily and the United States. A third explanation links his disappearance with the Golpe Borghese, a planned right-wing coup d'état (the plan failed in December 1970). Apparently De Mauro was convinced that he had got hold of a story of a lifetime. Before his disappearance he told colleagues at the newspaper L'Ora, "I have a scoop that is going to shake Italy."[1][2]

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01-17-2019 , 12:39 PM

#4218

happy to be hear

adept

Join Date: Dec 2017 Posts: 943

This dudes crazy. Injects himself with untested treatments, somehow dies before 30. I'd read the Gizmodo article first, but it's long and you can just read the wiki if you don't have time.

Fascinating:
https://gizmodo.com/this-rogue-compa...-wi-1822467611

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Traywick

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01-17-2019 , 12:45 PM

#4219

happy to be hear

adept

Join Date: Dec 2017 Posts: 943

Prolly a repost

H h holmes, mass murderer in the 1880s and 90s. Pretty interesting, 3 books were written about him, the most recent one has quite the high praise right now

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes

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01-17-2019 , 01:14 PM

#4220

Rococo

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Originally Posted by happy to be hear

Excellent chance that this guy was a garbage pail drug user/pill eater for most of his adolescence, which would explain his relatively cavalier attitude toward injecting or injesting something untested.

There isn't a lot to do in Elmore, Alabama.

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01-17-2019 , 02:46 PM

#4221

IBeDrummin

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Originally Posted by happy to be hear

I read Devil in the White City a year or so ago. Definitely worth the read. Would be interesting if DiCaprio ever does anything with the film rights he purchased.

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01-17-2019 , 06:11 PM

#4222

rockfsh

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The biblical city of Sodom was likely destroyed by an air burst from a meteor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_el-Hammam

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmac.../#45c6b48a5c67