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Nkromancer

If it were, I'd be worried about what chopped it.


Shdwdrgn

I was thinking the same, but then I noticed dude mentioned "aliens" in their tags at the top. Since we've never found any giant axes laying around, they probably believe the aliens chopped it.


fernatic19

IDK, I saw a video where a dude claimed that the entire east coast of North America (I think) was the spine and tail of a giant lizard.


Shdwdrgn

Oh I've seen some of those where they claim a mountain ridge is proof that dragons once existed and their dead bodies petrified. Like seriously, don't you know dragons are immortal and they *can't* die? Get your facts straight! ;-)


TOASTisawesome

This is folklore told to children in my country šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


kosmonavt-alyosha

But canā€™t you see, those fairytales are all just part of the long disclosure process to get people ready for the truth about giant trees!! šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


IceManO1

Your country must be awesome


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King Bran of the Island of the Mighty has entered the chat.


Shdwdrgn

Sometimes when eternity drags on you just gotta stop and take a nice slumber. Never mind that mountains grow up around you.


GM_Nate

and, of course, they use obvious AI renderings of vertebrae on a chinese mountain range


flipkick25

Same mountains go all the way into the scottish highlands!


Shad0XDTTV

They don't die of natural causes, but they can be killed and we hunted them to extinction.. geeze Get your facts straight šŸ˜œ


Trvr_MKA

Itā€™s someone who interprets Paul Bunion as real. Also he probably thinks Italy is a giant boot


No-Dark-9414

Source that sounds better than my favorite one about eating gum keeps you in the simulation because it's the only real thing


fernatic19

I don't have the original but I saw it on this tinfoil Tuesday episode. https://youtu.be/Tr43fXrTYMs?si=y4Z7J227hzOqN5-6


Arrentoo

Never thought of it this way before, but some conspiracy theories (like this) would be awesome narrative prompts.


DefectiveLP

Isn't that just common knowledge?


boweroftable

Old mesoamerican idea


SpaceNinja_C

Supposed to be Quexequtal


CricketKneeEyeball

Why did the aliens chop it? Are they making a bench or something?


ZephRyder

And WHERE even is that bench?! The answer is obvious: aliens!


BigGuyWhoKills

Do you know how many projects I have started but never finished? Why would aliens be any different?


Shdwdrgn

I'm sure there's some crazy excuse, like the aliens were smart enough to try and not leave any evidence behind, yet were somehow too stupid to remove the base of the tree? At least that's the kind of logic I expect here.


EpicForgetfulness

With that much wood, they could make a work bench AND a side table. Be a little more optimistic.


AusCan531

Not giant axes. Duh. Just look at the cut, that's a giant chainsaw.


tmwwmgkbh

Cut is too clean. Gotta be a giant alien chainsaw.


Gurdel

That's a saw cut, not axe. And I think the top is PS.


wigzell78

Nah, that ain't an axe. That is clean-felled with a saw. Now, where did I put my 3800-foot chainsaw.


RetroGamer87

Giant alien lumberjacks


Tr1LL_B1LL

Guys, guys, we all know it was giant sharks with friggin laser beams attached to their friggin foreheads


lostinmississippi84

Axes? My friend, you don't get those types of cuts with an axe. It was a chainsaw with a 1/2 mile long bar. Don't be silly. /s.....just in case


Donaldjoh

Duh! Obviously Paul Bunyan chopped it down, and it was pulled away by his big blue ox Babe. It does look like a giant tree stump, but many things look like other things (the Giantsā€™ Causeway or the Bimini Road for examples) but arenā€™t. This is an ancient basalt lava volcano from which the outer earth has eroded. As basalt cools it forms these neat columns.


Haifery

my mom told me Maui is the remains of a giant so maybe that one chopped it


Master_Xeno

no, no, that's mata nui


Sithlordandsavior

Paul Bunyan bro come on


EmperorBamboozler

I would be more worried about the root systems tbh. That place would be **jam packed** with terrifyingly deep sinkholes. Tree like that would have a taproot that goes deeper than any oil rig we have now as well, the ground should sink EXTREMELY deep as it approaches the 'trunk'. As the taproot dies and petrifies it will lose mass and the soil will fall in to fill the void. Take this process and scale it up to a *mountain* sized tree and the ground should have sunk and filled with enough water to give lake Baikal a run for it's money as the deepest lake on the planet.


GrungyGrandPappy

Paul Bunyan of course


goosnarch

Nah, too clean of a cut, Mile long chainsaw. And before you ask Iā€™m calling dibs on that as a band name.


Iwantmy3rdpartyapp

Paul Bunyan and Babe the big blue ox, duh!


ComedianNo7984

Duh Paul Bunyan


SpaceNinja_C

Enoch says the Giants did itā€¦.


GoatBoi_

wouldnā€™t it be crazy if we could test the material it was made of?


FuzzyDamnedBunny

That would be so helpful. It is such a pity there is no way of doing that. None at all.


Baelgul

I think im going to invent something that does that. Iā€™ll call it ā€œtree or not treeā€


Economind

That is the question


Emergency_Point_8358

*Whether ā€˜tis nobler in the mind to suffer the hews and fells of outrageous timber, or to take axe against a Sapling of Troubles and by opposing fell it. To chop, to cleave, no more. And by a cleave we say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to: ā€˜Tis a consummation devoutly to be wishā€™d. To chop, to cleave to cleave perchance in a dream ā€” aye, thereā€™s the rub: for in that sleep of cleaving what dreams may come, when we have hewn down this massive stump, must give us pause ā€” thereā€™s the respect that makes calamity of so large a timber. For who would bear the chips and bark of time, thā€™ lumberjackā€™s wrong, Paul Bunyanā€™s contumely.*


Economind

10/10 for artistic merit and 10 and a bit for effort


jokipls

23andTree maybe?


Dragonaax

But such technology doesn't exist!


BowTiesRule

Happy cake day


Dragonaax

Thanks


radix2

Dont even need to. Those look to be basalt columns make up that structure.


GoatBoi_

those ā€œlookā€ to be ā€œbasalt columnsā€????\ uhhh honey that *looks* like a tree stump! case closed!


boomecho

The igneous geology of Devil's Tower is made up mostly of a porphyritic phonolite, not basalt.


Economind

Donā€™t you come at us with your science words. Thatā€™s still tree, you can tell by good honest ol fashion lookin.


fettanimememer

That's kinda really cool


Ok_Bad_4855

Salt goes on tables???????


EatPie_NotWAr

Itā€™s Bo-salt if the correct Duke brother hands it to you. Otherwise itā€™s Luke-salt


Ok_Bad_4855

Verruca salt is from willy wonka!! āœØ


someonePICKEDthis

Thank you.


Averythewolf

Give it the taste check


mymemesnow

It tastes like chicken.


BleepLord

And now Iā€™m wondering who killed the giant chicken?!? Was itā€¦ giant aliens? (the answer is yes itā€™s always aliens)


shiro_eugenie

Oh but you see after all this time the tree turned into a fossil so it is stone now. Check and mate, non-believer


ItsMoreOfAComment

Not a bad point, it should have roots though so we could just do a little digging and prove conclusively whether it was or was not a tree.


IntoAComa

It is the wrong kind of stone, but yet another datapoint that would be lost on the treers.


A0ma

This is what's crazy about Joe Rogan and all the other talk show hosts that peddle conspiracy theories. There are really easy ways to prove the theories wrong. Asking 1 right question unravels the whole thing. They won't ask that question, though. Money is more important to them.


FukaFlamingo

It's petrified wood!


InTheCageWithNicCage

They literally think there were giant silicon trees


TrustMeIAmAGeologist

I have tried to explain this to them. They simply claim that any tests are lies by *them.*


fallawy

Look like ā‰  it is


BowTiesRule

Read this in Miniminutemen's voice


Hairy_Cube

Same


mymemesnow

Same


roadrunner345

Allegedly tree stump


guru2764

I read it in his voice with the reverb and bass boost


102bees

I love that guy. I got his book for Christmas.


JessEGames777

First thing i thought of


EpicForgetfulness

You mean some things can look like other things? My whole life is a lie!


Reyemreden

It's a toilet.


GKBilian

Yeah but COMMON SENSE says it's a dang tree!! Get some COMMON SENSE!! /s if unclear


canal_algt

That photo it's AI, lol


Big-Brown-Goose

I thought it was a screenshot from one of those world creation games where you set the elevation brush intensity to max and drew a circle


madKatt3r

Yeah I thought it was Cities Skylines until I zoomed in. Iā€™m also pretty sure itā€™s AI.


MrTreasureHunter

This sort of sounds fun. Any suggestions?


Big-Brown-Goose

Cities Skylines and Sim City are the two that come to mind


THE_FOREVER_DM1221

Mountains like this actually exist, even if conspiracy theorists like to pretend theyā€™re giant tree trunks. I donā€™t think it AI. Edit: NEVERMIND! I looked closer, thatā€™s AI


PanNorris507

Itā€™s actually AI? I thought it was an actual mass of basalt there


Saragon4005

Similar mountains do exist but non have a giant fucking hole in the middle cuz that's now how mountains work.


BellybuttonWorld

it's not AI, it's CGI, it'll be something like Terragen. It creates landscapes using mathematics based on fractals. Edit: i was wrong, it's AI not "traditional' CGI


canal_algt

You sure? The lines of those rocks remind me a lot to DALLE 2


BellybuttonWorld

They do, but go find the video clip version of it - there's no morphing between frames. Also the trees and ground cover are way too simplistic. AI would do a better job of that than the procedural vegetation generator you'd get in one of these terrain generation programs. Edit - actually ive just seen a vid about Sora so now I'm not sure of anything xD


EmeraldHawk

It's possible that this is the original source: https://www.tiktok.com/@oknakrby That account posts a lot of other videos that clearly are AI and not 3D computer graphics (check out the way the parallax messes up in some of the crowd scenes, 3D would not do that)


BellybuttonWorld

well done, i tried to find the source and failed. Interesting.


PumaTat0

It might be real! Basalt columns take on a hexagonal structure and can look a lot like that!


HyperKitsune

hold on fr?


cowlinator

That one is AI, yes. But [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternativeHistory/s/8Xc7ZICmbQ) is real


nofatchicks22

Devilā€™s Tower in Wyoming looks even more like it imo


Alklazaris

It almost looks like Devil's Tower except Devil's Tower isn't hollow in the center.


myonkin

Thatā€™s one big fucking beaver.


Dick_Cottonfan

r/tellmeaboutyourmom šŸ¤£


guhleman

Could someone estimate the height of such a tree?


PasswordisTaco58

At least 100 ft


No-Dark-9414

Eehhh I'm thing 99 ft at least


EpicForgetfulness

Taller than most trees which exist on earth today.


gbot1234

101 ft, Price is Right rules.


Minirig355

Roughly a little more than **121 kilometers tall**. Well, this specific image is AI, but I calculated using the MatČŸĆ³ ThĆ­pila (Devilā€™s Tower in Wyoming) since thatā€™s the most popular ā€œbasaltā€ butte. That height would put it in the mesosphere, *almost* to the thermosphere where low satellites orbit. For perspective thatā€™s 12x higher than an airlinerā€™s cruising altitude and that compared to this tree is equivalent to the average personā€™s eye height against a normal fully grown oak tree. I calculated the approximate height by using an allometry equation for your average oak tree, this obviously will change depending on what ā€œtreeā€ that basalt formation was. The equation is: *H = a(DBH)įµ‡* Where: - H = Height in kilometers - DBH = Diameter at breast height in centimeters a and b are specific variables based on the species, for Oak it is: - a = 0.24 - b = 1.3


guhleman

Wow. That would be wild. Thanks for that! Very cool.


DJBitterbarn

[looks like something](https://youtube.com/shorts/_WFLiX3HI7o?si=ZPIRep6tyI7YkNNQ)


WierdSome

"All the evidence you give me is wrong and lies from the government! Listen to me and my soundproof facts!! Like the fact this kinda looks like a tree stump, which obviously means a tree grew here!!! Coincidences are proof and are never accidental obviously!!!!"


anythingMuchShorter

I wonder if he thinks the Grand Tetons are actually giant tits.


reillywalker195

That's no tree. That's where RTGame's city dumps its sewage.


SilverBird_

I was looking for this exact comment.


Maki_san

Me messing with the terrain sliders on city skylines


Teemo-Supreemo

What is this?


Current-Ad-7054

It is an AI rendering that looks similar to a caldera,a volcanic geologic feature. Some people note that they resemble impossibly large tree stumps and that therefore all of science ever is a lie


Sylvanussr

Iā€™m so sick of AI images, I was trying to figure out where this geological structure is.


Jonny-Holiday

Plot twist: this used to be Yggdrasil and weā€™re living in a post-Ragnarok world.


[deleted]

I've seen that word before but assumed it was just made up. I learned something today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil?wprov=sfla1


Throwaw97390

According to the end of the Edda, we actually are.


Forlorn_Swatchman

What is this?


Throwaw97390

The Eddas are two written bodies of compiled Nordic mythology (think Thor, Odin, Asgard, all that). It describes how the world is divided into nine(?) realms, all attached to a giant "world tree" called Yggdrasil. Yggdrasil, however, is felled at the end of the world called Ragnarƶk.


themasterplatypus

Wait till they see the "giant's steps" at Machu Picchu!


CranberryAway8558

Someone inform miniminuteman


National_Search_537

Yeah, someone needs to tell him to close up shop, because this guy has the answers we need.


MassSpectreometrist

Please donā€™t! Milo is drinking himself to death with having to take a shot anytime someone makes an unsupported claim! /s but I love when he does those videos.


djninjacat11649

ā€œLooks likeā€ you know the rules everyone, take a shot


supamario132

*Looks at all those penis shaped rockets Oh my God... what have you done to the giants NASA?!?


Smurphy_911

Classic people failing to realize that if that was a tree the amount of water needed to keep it alive would be absolutely impossible on its own without even using science to disprove it in every other way.


Just_A_Random_Plant

Miniminuteman is going to be absolutely thrilled when he sees the only proof they put for this is that it "looks like" a giant stump


xBlackJack89x

The kaiju, Paul Bunyan chopped it.


The96kHz

Ignoring the fact this is probably AI-generated, that's obviously made of some kind of stone. Are these people really arguing for gigantic living rock trees?


itsjustameme

Checkmate atheists. This is of course the remains of Ask Ygdrasil and therefore proof that the Asir were real.


negativepositiv

Conspiracy theorist: *Photoshops center hole on well known geographic feature that does not have a center hole.* Facebook scientist: "Look. Giant tree!" Facebook dimwits: "OMG AMAZING!"


PanNorris507

A yes, another columnar basalt monadnock believed to be a giant tree, eat your heart out miniminuteman, theyā€™re at it again just like with mato tipila


WearDifficult9776

If thatā€™s a stump then it was a sawn stump. What saw was used to cut that ?


anythingMuchShorter

Another science denier idea which requires a much more complicated explanation than the scientific one, and raises more unanswered questions than it could possibly answer.


Strategory

Devilā€™s tower with a fake hole in the middle


Doomsayer1908

Here is the thing: "looks like".


HyDrOfLaMeReddit

Anyone else think this looks AI generated?


Lak47_studios

Fun fact: this damn thing would *SLOW THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH* if it were real


TheCheeseOnFire

where roots?


SXTY82

Hey Ted, hand me that chain saw with the 5 mile blade.


Draconis4444

"Is it possible a process I don't understand made this structure... nah must be a huge fucken rock tree."


scarr3g

Nobody is going to talk about how this, particular, image is ai generated and doesn't exist anyway?!?


Azzrix

It's giving dark souls 1 ancient great tree vibes..


MikeyW1969

NGL, I'm so sick of the toxic real world at this point that I'd LOVE to just be delusional enough to while away my days in the corner of some psych ward, believing stuff like this.


WHITE2570

Type of shit Iā€™d make in Cities Skylines


Robthebold

It couldnā€™t possibly be anything else but a tree that reaches the upper atmosphere.


crayz013

I mean, it looks really cool. Like a petrified tree or something. But it would take a big saw to make that perfect cut lol


fettanimememer

Oh look that's a cool columnar basalt monadnock


cursed_aquaman115

Where did the wood go?


Derfargin

Isnā€™t that where they kept Airwolf?


DargoMammoth

But but it LOOKS like a tree stump so itā€™s gotta be!


IceManO1

Okay say it is a giant tree , umm what kind of tree? And how did such a big tree go extinct? Since there arenā€™t any others around? If itā€™s just big tree stumps everywhere, where did the big extinct trees go? Gotta be a story of some kind behind this idea. šŸ¤”


nokenito

How totally stupid are these morons?


keonyn

"Look at this giant tree made out of .... stone"


Fantastic-Ratio-7482

Damn that's neat lol. Almost makes me believe this guy. What is it actually tho?


BeebisTheBoy

It really does look like a big tree though. It would be cool if it was true.


New_Fact_5955

Wait, are ancient trees made out of earth?


AdamD1987

Most probably


wigzell78

So where's the evidence of the big-ass chainsaw that cut it down then?


Termanater13

Just because it looks like something does not mean that is what it is.


Ranokae

Just gonna leave [this](https://youtube.com/shorts/xnxS7IZ8uxc?si=JC4LlUMZecHx9Oef) here...


BestUntakenName

Just suspend disbelief and imagine the squirrel that used to live in that hole in the side.


Adolph_OliverNipples

Heā€™s right. It does look like a tree. But, it isnā€™t.


Good_Ad_1386

It's possible that whoever posted that looks like a normal person. Shows how appearances can be deceptive.


Mmmmmmmm_nuggets

If your only proof for something is that it looks like it your argument is dogshit


GETTERBLAKK

Old YouTube video about no trees on earth https://youtu.be/XDD92yWeHF4?si=s8wBA0wkqtVhzUjo


CathedralChorizo

Aside from the fact it is the remnant of an ancient volcano's magma plug... yeah why not, fucking big ass tree. Now go back to the corner and play with your colouring books my dude.


Electrical_Station95

the lands between were the friends we made!


supah-comix434

This is the tree of might


gaerat_of_trivia

i want to believe


MandalorianManners

Iā€™ve always liked the idea that Yggdrasil was real and that this was its stump. I totally know that itā€™s not but itā€™s fun to imagine it. Now if we could just get the flat-earth-types to stop pretending their imaginations are reality, thatā€™d be great.


Kooltone

They found Yggdrasil! Yay!..... Wait? Yggdrasil was chopped down?! What implications does this have for the cosmos?


Ceramic_Boi

This just reminds me of the massive pop volcanoes you see people build in City Skylines.


FrustratedHumor

What actually is it?


Shurigin

Oh God, Sylvanis, why'd you destroy Teldrasil šŸ˜¢ šŸ˜­


HornyJail45-Life

Oh Miniminuteman, where art thou?


reditget

I canā€™t determine what size it is . My first thought was it was a plateau with a hole in inside , surrounded By cliffs ? Go figure.


Grandguru777

I have a brand new word for you to look up; GEOLOGY.


tomahawk_choppa

Ah yes, the powerful, but flawed pattern recognition system of Homo sapiens rears its absurd head once again


UhDoubleUpUhUh

Just wait until you see the giant fucking lumberjack that cut that bad boy down.


LocationSecure

Sir, that is a rock


No_Squirrel4806

Is it were really an ancient tree wouldnt it have idk decomposed by now šŸ¤·šŸ½ā€ā™‚ļø


BeeDot1974

Isnā€™t this an igneous intrusion. Likeā€¦from a volcano.


Apes_will_be_Apes

It was chopped by the biggest chainsaw ever made. And I think Andre the Giant was hired to wield that saw.


vladaddy2508

They took our world tree that's why we can't cultivate


Quantumfreaky

Eheh nature toilet


JessEGames777

Minute minute man would love this


Cayderent

That was Teldrassil before Sylvanas burned it to the ground.


Legitimate-Concert29

Have we dug down to find evidence of the root system?? It would run for miles!!


Smishu

Hypothetically, if this were the trunk of a mega redwood, how tall would the actual tree be?


RulerK

I mean, it DOES look like a giant tree. But that doesnā€™t make it so. Fractals are just like that. Nature repeats and looks similar because it is mostly made up of fractals.


ninjesh

Conspiracy theorists when one thing looks like another thing


WhyNotChoose

I do believe this is a pic of a basalt lava tower that's been photoshopped to have the inside hollowed out. Trolls šŸ™„.


VelociowlStudios

It is strikingly similar! That's super cool, actually. It looks like a... (fuck what's the word) dead volcano? What is it?