Ginger...all the 12,000 year olds are dead. All of them.
That depends on whether you count clonal colonies. There's a quaking aspen colony (the 47,000 stems are all connected via the one root system) in Utah that's estimated to be 80,000 years old.
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
billytea - Feb 01, 2012 6:09:37 pm PST #19667 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
sumi - Feb 01, 2012 6:14:35 pm PST #19668 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
But were there 12,000 dead yearlings?
Connie Neil - Feb 01, 2012 6:14:50 pm PST #19669 of 30001
brillig
There's a quaking aspen colony (the 47,000 stems are all connected via the one root system) in Utah that's estimated to be 80,000 years old.
I can see them from my house!
Ginger - Feb 01, 2012 6:18:39 pm PST #19670 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
A bank official just explained to the local news that the bank charges a $5 monthly fee for savings accounts in order to encourage people to save.
Strix - Feb 01, 2012 6:22:10 pm PST #19671 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
My timing is exquisite; I'm bleeding from the immediate headdesk on that one, Ginger.
amych - Feb 01, 2012 6:23:48 pm PST #19672 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Damn, that's the kind of insane troll logic that makes actual insane trolls back away slowly.
Ginger - Feb 01, 2012 6:35:51 pm PST #19673 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
See, they have savings accounts with no fees for people with a large minimum balance, so if you have a lot of money saved, you get to keep it, but if you don't have much money, they take it away.
Dana - Feb 01, 2012 6:36:55 pm PST #19674 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Well, how else will they punish people for being poor?
DavidS - Feb 01, 2012 7:00:09 pm PST #19675 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That depends on whether you count clonal colonies.
Clones don't count! That way lies madness.
billytea - Feb 01, 2012 7:08:41 pm PST #19676 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Clones don't count! That way lies madness.
It's a single connected biomass, the root system just keeps sending up different stems. How would you draw the line between this and an individual plant?
There are other clonal colonies where the resulting clones are no longer connected, of course. (There's a ring of creosote bushes in the Mojave desert that's about 12,000 years old. I mention that just because I like the word creosote.)