Popular Post webfact Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 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. -- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2021-07-28 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates When it isn't petrified that is! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Shuya Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 Must be a first that the longest wood is to be found in Thailand.... 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post johng Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 I found one in 2010 ! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmyp Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Wow. Insert Siagra joke. Siagra... insert... I set up another joke here, have a swing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainman34014 Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Full of petrified people at the moment; we've had two lots knocking the door asking for food today, pitiful ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NCC1701A Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 i have petrified wood every time i walk into a bar in Hua Hin. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardColeman Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DLock Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 If that doesn't bring the tourists in by the millions...nothing will. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunpa Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmitch Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Perhaps the people in the picture should be petrified as once again the lack of social distancing is there for all to see. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETERTHEEATER Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 False report. If you look at the image in the OP you can see that the 'wood' is a discarded piece of chipboard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 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? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unblocktheplanet Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 And we have the dinosaurs to prove it! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burma Bill Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 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!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 (edited) deleted Edited July 28, 2021 by Bluespunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 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... ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smedly Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 10 hours ago, webfact said: This could make the country the hub of pertrified wood, suggests ASEAN NOW. I know where the wood is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misterwhisper Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 (edited) 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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