scottlowther@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080411/sc_nm/sweden_tree_dc;_ylt=AvwMFBo8jMSU60nCmzPzY5z737YB
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> Swedish spruce may be world's oldest living tree
>
> Scientists have found a cluster of spruces in the mountains in western
> Sweden which, at an age of 8,000 years, may be the world's oldest
> living trees.
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> The hardy Norway spruces were found perched high on a mountain side
> where they have remained safe from recent dangers such as logging, but
> exposed to the harsh weather conditions of the mountain range that
> separates Norway and Sweden.
>
> Carbon dating of the trees carried out at a laboratory in Miami,
> Florida, showed the oldest of them first set root about 8,000 years
> ago, making it the world's oldest known living tree, Umea University
> Professor Leif Kullman said.
This is a crap story Lowther! Not even a picture? Go get a picture, and
don't come back till you do.
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BTW, thanks for the info.
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"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the
m*****
or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not
change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
Giordano Bruno
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