Talk:2847: Dendrochronology - Revision history

42.book.addict at 21:24, 2 December 2025

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NiceGuy1 at 05:46, 19 November 2023

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172.69.79.189: Forgot to sign, and I had horribly mangled my attempt to explain the disconnect between ques oftion and answer. Basically "is that sky blue?" "yes, the sunrise was described as rosy red" would be a sort of analogy.

2023-11-04T12:46:25Z

Forgot to sign, and I had horribly mangled my attempt to explain the disconnect between ques oftion and answer. Basically "is that sky blue?" "yes, the sunrise was described as rosy red" would be a sort of analogy.

162.158.74.69: Yeah, it's a single jawbone. Lost sight of it when editing. And, even within illustrative convention, hardly human.

2023-11-04T12:29:14Z

Yeah, it's a single jawbone. Lost sight of it when editing. And, even within illustrative convention, hardly human.

172.69.79.143 at 12:26, 4 November 2023

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172.69.79.143 at 12:25, 4 November 2023

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NiceGuy1 at 06:37, 4 November 2023

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172.70.206.214 at 04:45, 30 October 2023

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172.70.207.138 at 04:37, 30 October 2023

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172.70.211.187 at 04:34, 30 October 2023

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-Hello wonderful person.  IYKYK
+Hello wonderful person.  IYKYK {{unsigned ip|172.71.159.2|21:08, 27 October 2023 (UTC)}}
 Is the set of bones supposed to signify something? Human perhaps? I see vertebrae. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.46.30|172.70.46.30]] 13:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

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 ::: True, carnivorous doesn't MEAN humans, just means "meat-eater", but that seems to be the implication here. :) The fact that he calls it "horrible" means he was talking about humans (people wouldn't be THAT concerned over animals being eaten, animals eat each other all the time). Obviously if this were to happen, wildlife would certainly be included among the victims, they roam the woods more, LOL! But the tone of "There was that ONE horrible summer..." (just picturing a faraway haunted look in their eyes), yeah, he's referring to humans. :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 06:37, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 :::: Nevertheless, the sample of bones there cannot be IDed as human. The skull (extrapolating from the jawbone) is not, and ''perhaps'' some positive scale inference can be made, but even that enlarged ring doesn't seem right for the long-bones (if that's what they are) or vertebrae being human. The question being if "seeing vertebrae" meant human, and yet the direct answer depended only upon the interpreted use of that word, thus a non-sequitur and not actually related. Yes, there were man-eating-trees (or at least a tree eating one man/woman/child who was both insightful and yet blind to xanger), but probably not directly illustrated. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.189|172.69.79.189]] 12:46, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 So this tree was cut down in late 1642? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.42.182|172.70.42.182]] 13:37, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

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 ::: "Carnivore" can indeed apply to creatures that aren't herbivores (animal vs plant consumption), although a common connotation is "a consumer of vertebrate animals, especially mammals, captured live." Subsets exist, for instance piscivores (fish eaters) and insectivores. The caption's "horrible summer of 1635" implies widespread predation of trees on humans, even if only one such human is (facetiously) named, and the specimen shown is too small (or the wrong tree species) to attack <i>H. sapiens</i>. The proximity of the date of publication of this comic to 31 October is perhaps not to be neglected. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.187|172.70.211.187]] 04:34, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 ::: True, carnivorous doesn't MEAN humans, just means "meat-eater", but that seems to be the implication here. :) The fact that he calls it "horrible" means he was talking about humans (people wouldn't be THAT concerned over animals being eaten, animals eat each other all the time). Obviously if this were to happen, wildlife would certainly be included among the victims, they roam the woods more, LOL! But the tone of "There was that ONE horrible summer..." (just picturing a faraway haunted look in their eyes), yeah, he's referring to humans. :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 06:37, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
-:::: Nevertheless, the sample of bones there cannot be IDed as human. The skull (extrapolating from the jawbone) is not, and ''perhaps'' some positive scale inference can be made, but even that enlarged ring doesn't seem right for the long-bones (if that's what they are) or vertebrae being human. The question being if "seeing vertebrae" meant human, and the answer was implied by the use of that word is thus a non-sequitur and not related. Yes, there were man-eating-trees (or at least a tree eating one man/woman/child who was both insightful and yet blind to xanger), but probably not directly illustrated.
+:::: Nevertheless, the sample of bones there cannot be IDed as human. The skull (extrapolating from the jawbone) is not, and ''perhaps'' some positive scale inference can be made, but even that enlarged ring doesn't seem right for the long-bones (if that's what they are) or vertebrae being human. The question being if "seeing vertebrae" meant human, and yet the direct answer depended only upon the interpreted use of that word, thus a non-sequitur and not actually related. Yes, there were man-eating-trees (or at least a tree eating one man/woman/child who was both insightful and yet blind to xanger), but probably not directly illustrated. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.189|172.69.79.189]] 12:46, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 So this tree was cut down in late 1642? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.42.182|172.70.42.182]] 13:37, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

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 ::: "Carnivore" can indeed apply to creatures that aren't herbivores (animal vs plant consumption), although a common connotation is "a consumer of vertebrate animals, especially mammals, captured live." Subsets exist, for instance piscivores (fish eaters) and insectivores. The caption's "horrible summer of 1635" implies widespread predation of trees on humans, even if only one such human is (facetiously) named, and the specimen shown is too small (or the wrong tree species) to attack <i>H. sapiens</i>. The proximity of the date of publication of this comic to 31 October is perhaps not to be neglected. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.187|172.70.211.187]] 04:34, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 ::: True, carnivorous doesn't MEAN humans, just means "meat-eater", but that seems to be the implication here. :) The fact that he calls it "horrible" means he was talking about humans (people wouldn't be THAT concerned over animals being eaten, animals eat each other all the time). Obviously if this were to happen, wildlife would certainly be included among the victims, they roam the woods more, LOL! But the tone of "There was that ONE horrible summer..." (just picturing a faraway haunted look in their eyes), yeah, he's referring to humans. :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 06:37, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
-:::: Nevertheless, the sample of bones there cannot be IDed as human. The skulls are not, and ''perhaps'' some positive scale inference can be made, but even that enlarged ring doesn't seem right for the long-bones (if that's what they are) or vertebrae being human. The question being if "seeing vertebrae" meant human, and the answer was implied by the use of that word is thus a non-sequitur and not related. Yes, there were man-eating-trees (or at least a tree eating one man/woman/child who was both insightful and yet blind to xanger), but probably not directly illustrated.
+:::: Nevertheless, the sample of bones there cannot be IDed as human. The skull (extrapolating from the jawbone) is not, and ''perhaps'' some positive scale inference can be made, but even that enlarged ring doesn't seem right for the long-bones (if that's what they are) or vertebrae being human. The question being if "seeing vertebrae" meant human, and the answer was implied by the use of that word is thus a non-sequitur and not related. Yes, there were man-eating-trees (or at least a tree eating one man/woman/child who was both insightful and yet blind to xanger), but probably not directly illustrated.
 So this tree was cut down in late 1642? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.42.182|172.70.42.182]] 13:37, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

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 ::: "Carnivore" can indeed apply to creatures that aren't herbivores (animal vs plant consumption), although a common connotation is "a consumer of vertebrate animals, especially mammals, captured live." Subsets exist, for instance piscivores (fish eaters) and insectivores. The caption's "horrible summer of 1635" implies widespread predation of trees on humans, even if only one such human is (facetiously) named, and the specimen shown is too small (or the wrong tree species) to attack <i>H. sapiens</i>. The proximity of the date of publication of this comic to 31 October is perhaps not to be neglected. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.187|172.70.211.187]] 04:34, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 ::: True, carnivorous doesn't MEAN humans, just means "meat-eater", but that seems to be the implication here. :) The fact that he calls it "horrible" means he was talking about humans (people wouldn't be THAT concerned over animals being eaten, animals eat each other all the time). Obviously if this were to happen, wildlife would certainly be included among the victims, they roam the woods more, LOL! But the tone of "There was that ONE horrible summer..." (just picturing a faraway haunted look in their eyes), yeah, he's referring to humans. :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 06:37, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
-:::: Nevertheless, the sample of bones there cannot be IDed as human (the skulls are not, and ''perhaps'' some scale inference can be made, but even that enlarged ring doesn't seem right for the long-bones (if that's what they are) or vertebrae being human. The question being if "seeing vertebrae" meant human, and the answer was implied by the use of that word is thus a non-sequitur and not related. Yes, there were man-eating-trees (or at least a tree eating one man/woman/child who was both insightful and yet blind to xanger), but probably not directly illustrated.
+:::: Nevertheless, the sample of bones there cannot be IDed as human. The skulls are not, and ''perhaps'' some positive scale inference can be made, but even that enlarged ring doesn't seem right for the long-bones (if that's what they are) or vertebrae being human. The question being if "seeing vertebrae" meant human, and the answer was implied by the use of that word is thus a non-sequitur and not related. Yes, there were man-eating-trees (or at least a tree eating one man/woman/child who was both insightful and yet blind to xanger), but probably not directly illustrated.
 So this tree was cut down in late 1642? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.42.182|172.70.42.182]] 13:37, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

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	Actually, the carnivorous trees aren't true trees. They are part of the same species as broccoli and kale. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.247.48\|172.69.247.48]] 22:37, 29 October 2023 (UTC)		Actually, the carnivorous trees aren't true trees. They are part of the same species as broccoli and kale. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.247.48\|172.69.247.48]] 22:37, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
		+	: Sorry, that hypothesis has been falsified. [https://xkcd.com/2827/ Despite Randall's best efforts]. (Sly of you.) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.206.214\|172.70.206.214]] 04:45, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

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 : Yes, that's what he means by "carnivorous", he's claiming that one year this tree was eating humans, those bones are the remains of those humans. :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 06:01, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 :: "Carnivorous" doesn't ''necessarily'' mean "man-eater". It's eating creatures (and generally you'd go for "insectivorous" for certain eater-of-invertibrate diets, but it'll probably cover consuming anything in the Animal Kingdom, fish, fowl, etc). He actually only claims one ''human'' was eaten (the eponymous researcher of the phenomenon), even if it was possible that others also got fatally surprised by it. But it could be any arboreal creature (and maybe some unwise unarboreal but tree-adjacent ones). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.8|162.158.34.8]] 18:05, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
-::: "Carnivore" can indeed apply to creatures that aren't herbivores (animal vs plant consumption), although a common connotation is "a consumer of vertebrate animals, especially mammals, captured live." Subsets exist, for instance piscivores (fish eaters) and insectivores. The caption's "horrible summer of 1635" implies widespread predation of trees on humans, even if only one such human is (facetiously) named, and the specimen shown is too small (or the wrong tree species) to attack <i>H. sapiens</i>. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.187|172.70.211.187]] 04:34, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
+::: "Carnivore" can indeed apply to creatures that aren't herbivores (animal vs plant consumption), although a common connotation is "a consumer of vertebrate animals, especially mammals, captured live." Subsets exist, for instance piscivores (fish eaters) and insectivores. The caption's "horrible summer of 1635" implies widespread predation of trees on humans, even if only one such human is (facetiously) named, and the specimen shown is too small (or the wrong tree species) to attack <i>H. sapiens</i>. The proximity of the date of publication of this comic to 31 October is perhaps not to be neglected. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.187|172.70.211.187]] 04:34, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 So this tree was cut down in late 1642? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.42.182|172.70.42.182]] 13:37, 28 October 2023 (UTC)