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Monday, September 6, 2010

Life / Science The Oldest Living Tortoise Is 175 Years Old...

Posted by Grant Brissey on Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:15 PM

...and that's not even close to the oldest living organism on the planet. These and other fascinating facts for your Labor Day evening:

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Thank you! My Labour Day evening is going to consist of watching Legion with junior Canuck (him for the horror, me for Paul Bettany's abs), so it was nice to have this diversion first. And "Immortal Jellyfish"? Definitely needs to be the name of a band.

Posted by Canuck on September 6, 2010 at 5:42 PM

Fascinating project!

Posted by Bobphilly on September 6, 2010 at 6:39 PM

TED you own but holy shit could you please serve video in a higher resolution.

Posted by dotSpec

on September 6, 2010 at 8:10 PM

I'm a little bummed one of the longest living organisms wasn't Russell Edgington.

Posted by UNPAID COMMENTER on September 6, 2010 at 8:29 PM

It's like the old tortoise in The Neverending Story.

Posted by Bub on September 6, 2010 at 9:51 PM

this talk was just a laundry list of old things. she didn't really tell us anything about them except how old they are, their names and where they live. boring. and she said that this was a cross of art, science and philosophy. more of all three, please.

Posted by onion on September 6, 2010 at 11:19 PM

Grant Brissey is the oldest living man on the planet.

Posted by fag on September 7, 2010 at 2:46 AM

Thanks for sharing, Grant. I, at least, enjoyed it.

Posted by Frau Blucher on September 7, 2010 at 4:05 AM

@6 Agreed. Could've been so much more. Her monotone doesn't help.

Posted by what_now on September 7, 2010 at 9:03 AM

I liked that, but I also wished she would have drilled down more on each species a little. Other than the trees, it was hard to tell if some of those were single living organisms, or just ancient colonies of organisms (fungus, coral) that have continued to thrive in the same location—which from a distance, could also be said about human colonies.

Still, pretty damn cool.

Posted by Dougsf on September 7, 2010 at 12:17 PM