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Bristlecone pine rings by wirehead

Bristlecone pine rings

This is a massive slice of climate history. It's incredibly valuable, because you can cross-check other parts of earth sciences against each other, so that you can know if carbon dating really works. Or that global warming really is about to kills us all. For a very brief growing season each year, the bristlecone pine makes a new ring. I can't imagine how Edmund Schulman, who was the first to discover exactly how old the Bristlecones were, must have felt when he started counting rings on core samples and realized that, instead of a few hundred years old, these trees were thousands of years old. Even the fallen trees are valuable. They don't decay very fast, so a tree that fell a few centuries ago is still there and can extend the chronology backwards even farther.

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Bristlecone pines by wirehead

Bristlecone pines

Been too stressed out lately. Got woken up one too many times in the middle of the night. Things like that. So I'd planned (and then re-planned, because the first plan wasn't working out so well) a trip to the parts of California that I've never seen. The Bristlecone Pines are because of Galen Rowell. See, they are some of the oldest living things on the planet. They live for centuries, with a short growing season and with a bunch of adaptations for having an incredibly slow metabolism to conserve every last resource. They thrive where other trees won't. We were up at 10,000 ft, which is altitude sickness zone.

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Red Rock Canyon California State Park by wirehead

Red Rock Canyon California State Park

Been too stressed out lately. Got woken up one too many times in the middle of the night. Things like that. So I'd planned (and then re-planned, because the first plan wasn't working out so well) a trip to the parts of California that I've never seen. This wasn't intentional. It just turned out that the hills started looking awfully interesting as we drove along the US 395... and then we realized it was a state park. Mrs. Wirehead took this one.

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Big Freakin' Monolith by wirehead

Big Freakin' Monolith

The thing I like about the G7 is that it's got just that happy little borderline of usefulness. See, if I'm in a downtown location, I can often set my ISO to 400, stand really still, and take an exposure within the range where the anti-shake image stabilization helps. Yeah, if you zoom in at 100%, it looks like crap. But on a decent screen size, it still looks OK.

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Hey by wirehead

Hey

It's a big freaking red chair. What's not to like? :D

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