Guinness World Record? Thailand set to be the hub of petrified wood

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

An official of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment hopes that Thailand will soon be named in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest piece of petrified wood on planet earth. 

 

This could make the country the hub of pertrified wood, suggests ASEAN NOW.

 

Jatuporn Burutphat told Daily News that earlier in the year the environment minister Varawut Silpa-archa had been to the national park of Doi Sai Malai in Tak in the north west of the country and saw three examples of pertified wood.

 

One was a 72.22 meter long trunk of Thong Beung wood that if still standing would stretch twenty stories into the sky.

 

It was thought to be at least 120,000 years old. 

 

Representations for verification of the record have been sent to the Guinness book after someone spotted that the previous record from QITAI in China is only a mere 38 meters long. 

 

Thong Beung is a wood that now does not grow in the north but can still be found in the south of Thailand, reported Daily News. 

 

Wikipedia indicates that the wood is called Koompassia malaccensis (or more commonly kempas), is a tropical rainforest tree species up to 60 meters tall and is used as a flooring material. 

 

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When it isn't petrified that is!

[Shuya]

Must be a first that the longest wood is to be found in Thailand.... 

[johng]

I found one in 2010 !

 

 

[timmyp]

Wow. Insert Siagra joke. 

 

Siagra... insert... I set up another joke here, have a swing. 

[trainman34014]

Full of petrified people at the moment; we've had two lots knocking the door asking for food today, pitiful !

[NCC1701A]

i have petrified wood every time i walk into a bar in Hua Hin. 

[RichardColeman]

Only 'petrified wood' i ever see in Thailand are trees lining the road, road telegraph poles made of wood and road signs made of wood, which appear to be wiped out in their thousands every year.

[DLock]

If that doesn't bring the tourists in by the millions...nothing will.

[khunpa]

Again Thailand shows that it is superior to ANY other country in the world!

 

Medical hub, IT hub, Education hub, Tourist hub, Covid hub and now also Wood hub.

 

 

[madmitch]

Perhaps the people in the picture should be petrified as once again the lack of social distancing is there for all to see.

[PETERTHEEATER]

False report. If you look at the image in the OP you can see that the 'wood' is a discarded piece of chipboard. 

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:

i have petrified wood every time i walk into a bar in Hua Hin. 

Those old girls still do it for you... huh?

[unblocktheplanet]

And we have the dinosaurs to prove it!

[Burma Bill]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

could make the country the hub of pertrified wood

Yes indeed, the Covid Czar and his "cabinet" made up of petrified wood!!

[Bluespunk]

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Edited July 28, 2021 by Bluespunk

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

8 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

i have petrified wood every time i walk into a bar in Hua Hin. 

 

So you can imagine then, just how petrified the occupants of the bar are when the see you come strolling in...  ????

 

[smedly]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

This could make the country the hub of pertrified wood, suggests ASEAN NOW.

I know where the wood is

[Misterwhisper]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand will soon be named in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest piece of petrified wood on planet earth.

Who is it? Anutin? Prayuth? The constantly dozing geezer... what's his name again... Prawit?

Edited July 29, 2021 by Misterwhisper