"In 2006, climate change experts from Bangor University in north Wales found a very special clam while dredging the seabeds of Iceland. At that time scientists counted the rings on the inside shell to determine that the clam was the ripe old age of 405. Unfortunately, by opening the clam which scientists refer to as "Ming," they killed it instantly. "
Somehow I have a hard time associating the words "very special" with a clam.
This isn't the first time scientists have killed the world's oldest living thing.
"In 1964, Donal Rusk Currey killed the oldest tree ever. To this day, there has still never been an older tree discovered. The tree was a Great Basin bristlecone pine, and Currey didn’t mean to kill it. It was an accident, and one he didn’t really understand the ramifications of until he started counting rings.
Basically, Currey got his tree corer stuck in the tree. So stuck that it wouldn’t come out. An unwitting park ranger helped him by cutting the tree down, to remove the instrument, and later Currey began to count the rings. Eventually, he realized that the tree he had just felled was almost 5,000 years old – the oldest tree ever recorded."
Well, he meant to cut it down! How is that an accident? Let's not allow the murdering scientist off the moral hook, shall we?
Hey, how old is grandma? Maybe we should cut off her head to find out!
Hey, how old is grandma? Maybe we should cut off her head to find out!
That 5000 year old tree makes the clam sound like a teenager!
Scientists. Don't let them near your elderly!
That's similar to "You have to pass the bill to see what's in it".
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