One of my favorite episodes of Nova is about the scientist who picked a tree at random to cut and count rings. He was shattered when he found it was the oldest

One of my favorite episodes of Nova is about the scientist who picked a tree at random to cut and count rings. He was shattered when he found it was the oldest tree of them all, almost 5000 years old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_%28tree%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_%28tree%29 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah