Rachel Sussman: The world's oldest living things
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Sep 3, 2010
http://www.ted.com Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground forest" in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.
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The red mark on Sri Lanka on the map is for a sapling of the Bo tree that the Lord Buddha reached enlightenment under. That sapling is now over 2000 years old with a continuous history recorded by monks from the time it was brought to Sri Lanka by India. Probably the most photographed tree in Sri Lanka lol. She doesn't need to come here to get more details
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@Kurtconradt13 growth rates, or in the case of tree by its rings
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Shes trying to speak with a Popcorn accent....and i feel like saying a bitch for no reason...bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch!!!
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Greatz!! Good!!
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Nakakabighani. They were just too great. Thanks for sharing this.
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they're great...looking forward for more.
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@h2inuyasha2
the earth has been around for about 4.5 billion years
btw if Adam and Eve's children fucked each other, it would be incest and all their descendants would probably deteriorate
Vitaminnn07 1 year ago 34
Wow!!!!! This is one of the best TED talks I have seen, & I have watched at least 30 of them. It inspires awe. Yes, please protect these.
gordinidesigns 1 year ago 7