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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 21:07:31 JST myrmepropagandist

   What was the largest tree ever to grow on earth? In all of history, in all of time, when did that tree stand?

   There is a chance that it was not millions of years ago, but rather in recent history. In California. One of the great redwoods cut for land and timber and conquest may have been the largest tree that ever lived.

   I think the felling of that tree was a turning point. It's strange to think that nothing may have marked it's passing.

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     powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 21:07:30 JST powersoffour

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     @futurebird I remember listening to a podcast about a rubbing that was made of an enormous tree stump, as a way to commemorate it, and talking about the exhibitions of the tree rubbing. I cannot find it right now; I think it was Atlas Obscura, but it may have been something else. (What's frustrating is that I listened to it on a run, and can pinpoint *where* I was when I heard it, but cannot find the episode!)

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     powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 21:09:24 JST powersoffour

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     @futurebird Wait I found it!

     Article: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-discovery-tree

     Podcast episode: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-the-discovery-tree