The Oldest Living Things In The World
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Jean Calment lived to be 122, the oldest human being we know of… when she was 13, she met Vincent Van Gogh. By the time she died, we had the internet. But even the longest human life is nothing to this tree. This guy was just a sapling around the beginning of the Mayan calendar. By the time Stonehenge had been constructed, he was already hundreds of years old. Today, you can take a picture of this still-living bristlecone pine with your iPhone. Earth is full of really old things. Most of them are dead. But not all of them. We live alongside a shadow universe, where age is measured in thousands of years, and where organisms of every shape and size redefine what it means to live. For nearly a decade, artist and photographer Rachel Sussman has been seek...
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Jean Calment lived to be 122, the oldest human being we know of… when she was 13, she met Vincent Van Gogh. By the time she died, we had the internet. But even the longest human life is nothing to this tree. This guy was just a sapling around the beginning of the Mayan calendar. By the time Stonehenge had been constructed, he was already hundreds of years old. Today, you can take a picture of this still-living bristlecone pine with your iPhone. Earth is full of really old things. Most of them are dead. But not all of them. We live alongside a shadow universe, where age is measured in thousands of years, and where organisms of every shape and size redefine what it means to live. For nearly a decade, artist and photographer Rachel Sussman has been seek...
