Hyperion
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The tree is called Hyperion, it's a coast redwood in California and it's 116 meters tall, which is sort of significantly higher than the Statue of Liberty. Some hikers came across it and thought that looks like a big tree, let's tell someone about it.
from 339: No Such Thing As A Penguin in a Nightclub, 2020-09-18 at 00:45:54 · read transcript
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He later switched to studying lakes which he promptly drilled into and drained I just need to drain this lake to find out how old it is just to say you can't just in case you want to go and find Hyperion the world's tallest tree you can't so don't try they keep the location of these trees top secret now so people don't go in an accident and they sort of kill them with love I think it might have been Steve Silat.
339: No Such Thing As A Penguin in a Nightclub, 2020-09-18 · listen
It could be just wrong of course because like the tallest tree that was ever measured ever this was a eucalyptus in Australia it had fallen down and they measured it and it was 133 metres high which would be higher than Hyperion but most people now think that they just didn't measure it correctly they never found any other eucalyptuses that were nearly that tall and it was in 1871 when maybe tape measures weren't quite as good as they are today yeah that.
339: No Such Thing As A Penguin in a Nightclub, 2020-09-18 · listen
It had fallen down and they measured it and it was 133 meters high, which would be higher than Hyperion. but most people now think that they just didn't measure it correctly because they've never found any other euclyptuses that were nearly that tall and it was in 1871 when maybe tape measures weren't quite as good as they are today.
No Such Thing As A Penguin in a Nightclub, 2020-09-18 · listen
Which he promptly drilled into and drained. I just need to drain this lake to find out how old it is. Just to say, you can't, just in case you want to go and find Hyperion the world's tall as true, you can't. Don't try. They keep the location of these trees top secret now, so people don't go and accidentally sort of kill them with love, I think, is how, I think it might have been Steve Sillit who said it like that.
No Such Thing As A Penguin in a Nightclub, 2020-09-18 · listen
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