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The Galaxy That Got Too Big

• fuzzythinker 11y ago
  Cool, never knew about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
  • pingou 11y ago
    I am surprised by the weight they mention in the article (and on Wikipedia). 6600 tons for more than 40 000 trunks, considering that Populus tremuloides are usually 20–25m tall at maturity (again, according to wikipedia), seems very low.
• imperialdrive 11y ago
  All this information collected from such a distance with technology, science, and ingenuity from the last hundred years. Even if we have only a hundred or so left, there is plenty of awesomeness that can happen in that time. Good stuff.
  • xlm1717 11y ago
    Why would we have only a hundred or so left?