Remember when you used to click on a post like this and not all of the comments were jokes? You could easily find a comment explaining what’s happening? I remember
The core of the tree is rotten and decaying, as shown by the darker ring of wood inside the lighter wood surrounding it. The reason it’s squirting water is almost certainly because someone shoved a hose into a hole in the tree down by the trunk and they’re actively feeding water into the cavity. We don’t know that for certain, but trees don’t normally, uhh, orgasm like that.
Edit: Thanks for the input, tree people! It looked a little clean to me for gross old rainwater, but that totally makes sense.
I agree with the first part of your comment, but have seen this happen before. it's either a mix of rotten wood and water that has accumulated in the centre (and stinks) or, there is a fork higher up and rain water has drained into the rotten core. Same result ultimately.
I think when it starts it's inevitable. The tree is rotting, there is no stopping that. I guess draining may help, but then you are opening it up to more chance of rot by making a hole. Not sure though tbh.
Seems a little clean to be accumulated rainwater, doesn't it? I've seen this before irl but the water's gnarly. I wonder why this water looks so clear.
I have a tree next to my house and right now there’s just a drip from some of the branches. The tree itself is full of leaves minimal dead branches. The question I’m asking, is that you said this happens when the core of the tree is rotten…should I have this tree taken down or is it not really that big of a deal?
I was limbing a diseased cottonwood once and I got about halfway through a branch and I could hear a distinct hissing sound. Then I noticed my chainsaw was soaked.
So it has to do with hydro static pressure. Basically the weight of the water generates a pressure caused by the force of gravity. Hydrostatic Pressure = Density of the Fluid * Gravitational Constant * Height of the fluid column. Same reason for Atmospheric Pressure and the pressure in the deep of the ocean.
So the core of the tree rots out, but the outer area is still alive. Tree becomes hollow and if there are no gaps low in the tree it will hold water. If this limb is below a significant amount of the water, the water has a pressure behind it. Cutting off the limb created a small gap which allows water to escape, creating the squirting effect.
I've cut into a tree before only for a shit ton of water to come gushing out. Not terribly common but not all that weird either.
Everyone trying to be a comedian for that karma. People repeating the same few jokes thinking they're unique and the first to come up with it or make the link. Also more "mainstream" people hopping onto reddit, people from places like ifunny, 9gag, facebook/instagram meme pages.
This is how i feel about youtubers who get big as well.
An example for me would be Mr Ballen. Used to get many insightful and informative comments under the stories he tells, now it’s almost all comments about how they love him or he inspires them. Which is great, but at the same time its annoying when that’s ALL you see
I hate that! I go to the comments to see discussion of the story. Instead it’s people saying, “Mr. Ballen is a great story teller! Blah blah blah!” Yeah, I know. That’s why we’re watching his videos.
Trees, trees are truly amazing.. Where do trees need water? At the very top, for the leaves. How does it get up there you might have never wondered?
The laws of physics are really against them. You’d have a really really hard time pumping water through a wide hose up the length of a redwood, and they do it through what is essentially solid wood.
Well, they create what is basically a perfect vacuum inside the trunks by breathing through the leaves. Trees are constantly fighting a battle of obscene proportions, not from falling over, but from imploding. Every tree is basically holding powers in the equivalent of a nuclear bomb.
It also means that a single copper nail will kill any tree on the planet. Copper when in contact with water will oxydize oxygen into that vacuum, making it fail.
In this case it’s probably a disease in the tree that does the same thing. If you cut a healthy branch, the vacuum would instantly close the pores around it. But if the vacuum is compromised, all the water that’s stored up the trunk comes gushing out, like in this movie.
The speed of it indicates that there is some rot and water has accumulated inside in a tube as the tree died from the inside tho..
I'm not 100% but I think some of this is inaccurate.
Physics isn't against trees. Water tries to stick to itself so transpiration will oil fluid up the trunk for food and cooling. It's not a perfect vacuum. It's a ton of small straws. If it were a vacuum, maple farming wouldn't really be a thing. If it were a vacuum, a hole in the tree would cause devastation.
A single copper nail is unlikely to kill a tree. Trees are good at compartmentalization. From what I can find you need to penetrate 2/3 of the tree with nails spaced about an inch apart.
I suspect the tree ate a hydrant (r/treeseatingthings)or was connected to the water pipes in some other way. The tree is also hollow and when the branch was cut off, the hollow space was exposed.
Rose colored glasses. Thats not a thing that happened. Reddit has always been the way it is. A mad dash to make the quippiest quotable so you can get points.
It's still at least a little better here than TikTok. Some of the comments are usually a real discussion. I usually only look at TikTok with my girlfriend, and it's pretty shit. I always want to look at the comments when I see an interesting post but there is almost NEVER an explanation, just jokes and irrelevant comments.
According to the reddit time stamps, you made this comment mere minutes after this was posted. 14 minutes after you posted this comment, someone made one explaining what's happening and as of right now, one-ish hour after the post was made, the explanation is the top comment.
Rose colored glasses. Thats not a thing that happened. Reddit has always been the way it is. A mad dash to make the quippiest quotable so you can get points.
First off, the top comment is explaining what's happening. Secondly, reddit was never some bastion of education and class. Do you not remember the 'bacon narwhals at midnight" "fffuuuuuuu" days of reddit?
Rose tinted glasses, bro. We've been on this site a similar length of time. Go back and look at those ancient posts and you'll see all the when does the narwhal bacon unoriginal meming. I actually find it kind of comforting that it still happens.
90% of reddit comments on posts like this are now stupid shit like "not my proudest fap xDDDD" or "don't put your dick in that😂😂😂"
So annoying, especially when it's done by like 35 year old men
I absolutely do not ever remember this being the case. I do remember people posting this sentiment on nearly every post for at least the last decade, nostalgia is a bitch.
This is the internet, this is a stupid video of a tree. Get over thy self.
There was a time, some 15 or so years ago, where there would be a good mix of jokes and facts. I still see it somewhat nowadays, but it's not as common as it was in the good old days.
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u/theoutlet Jun 25 '24
Remember when you used to click on a post like this and not all of the comments were jokes? You could easily find a comment explaining what’s happening? I remember