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A short blog article with a picture of both the tree and the metal sculpture that replaced it: http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/?p=726 (found via BoingBoing - http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/06/sad_fate_of_the_last.html) --HunterZ 19:49, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh man, when I got to the part about the drunk Libyan truck driver, I nearly died laughing.Bobanny 07:08, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that was amazing... I got dizzy laughing so hard.Momo Hemo 16:47, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Image?

The modern Tree of Ténéré, as seen in December 1985

The second image in the article seems to be missing. I'll edit out the link but could someone please check to see if they can still load the image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Arbre-neu2.jpg. If it's missing (and is not merely missing for me) then it appears to also have gone missing from wikimedia commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Arbre-neu2.jpg. Random Passer-by 01:26, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Map Scale

The article mentions that the tree appears on a map with the scale 1:4,000,000. I was able to find it on a map (in the 7th Edition of National Geographic's Atlas of the World) with the scale 1:8,790,000. Why is the scale 1:4,000,000 significant, as opposed to some larger one?Spurius Furius Fusus 20:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

:'(

This may be the saddest story I've ever heard

Yeah, this damn truck driver. How stupid can a single human being be?

I fail to understand how anyone manage to hit the only tree in a 500 mile radius, no matter how drunk one is. Primadog 07:49, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is really sad.. --Vosselmans 16:03, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I like this article and I read it often. I think I figured out why such a horrible thing is so funny. The article starts out by describing the rarity of the tree. It then proceeds to describe the challenges the tree faced to survive. After that, the article talks about how sacred the tree is to the local population. In the next sentence, it gets hit by a drunk driver. No mention before this that the tree is no longer standing besides the word was. My suggestion for this article if you want to tone down the humor (which is not my desire for the article), would be to put in the intro paragraph something that more specifically states the tree was run down.

It should read at the dadication plate of the iron tree "To Human Stupidity. Even though it is much greater and will endure much longer than this monument..." Pjsouza 22:17, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My god, how can anyone, drunk or dead, manage to hit the single tree in a 500 mile-ish radius? It just doesn't seem possible. Anyways, I too, would like to know how old this tree was. Can anyone post a link for that? Thanks ~Who says life is short? It's the longest thing a human ever does~ (talk) 01:43, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Around 300, apparently [1]. --Illythr (talk) 13:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

:'( Skullers (talk) 20:33, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article in the Wikipedia store

I've made some merchandise for the Wikipedia store based on this article: [www.cafepress.com/wikipedia/2480746 Arbre du Tenere] section. Let me know what you think on the meta page. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 01:04, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No indication of the age of the tree? Sherurcij ^{(Speaker for the Dead)} 19:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How old was this tree?

Does anybody have an idea how old this tree was (or might have been)? --Paul Pot (talk) 21:16, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Need A French Translator

Here is a great page with several photos of the Tenere Tree but it is in French. Can someone figure out what it says and see about copyright issues with posting some of the images on Wikipedia? Gallery of the Tree

Online discussion forums cannot be used as references as they are unverifiable. vıd ıoman 23:46, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Those are photos in chronologic order. It says that a truck allready hit it between 1959 and 1967 and lost one trunk. But "forums cannot be used as references as...". --82.227.142.250 (talk) 09:51, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 :I fail to understand how anyone manage to hit the only tree in a 500 mile radius, no matter how drunk one is. [[User:Primadog|Primadog]] 07:49, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 ::This is really sad.. --[[User:Vosselmans|Vosselmans]] 16:03, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
+I like this article and I read it often. I think I figured out why such a horrible thing is so funny. The article starts out by describing the rarity of the tree. It then proceeds to describe the challenges the tree faced to survive. After that, the article talks about how sacred the tree is to the local population. In the next sentence, it gets hit by a drunk driver. No mention before this that the tree is no longer standing besides the word was. My suggestion for this article if you want to tone down the humor (which is not my desire for the article), would be to put in the intro paragraph something that more specifically states the tree was run down.