This Tree Trunk Has Been Floating Upright For 120 Years - And No One Knows Why

[rangerrebew]

This Tree Trunk Has Been Floating Upright For 120 Years - And No One Knows Why

Defying the laws of physics since 1896.
BEC CREW
10 OCT 2016

Crater Lake in Oregon is the deepest lake in the United States, and its water is so blue, you’d be forgiven for thinking someone slipped a few gallons of food colouring into it.

But its sheer size and brilliant blue water aren’t the only distinguishing features of Crater Lake - there’s a 9-metre-tall (30-foot) tree stump that’s been bobbing vertically in the lake since at least 1896, and it’s buoyant enough to support the weight of an entire person standing on top.

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-tree-trunk-has-been-floating-upright-for-120-years-and-no-one-knows-why

[Frank Cannon]

This Tree Trunk Has Been Floating Upright For 120 Years - And No One Knows Why

So experts are stumped?

[rangerrebew]

This Tree Trunk Has Been Floating Upright For 120 Years - And No One Knows Why

So experts are stumped?

Good one, Frank!!

[Fishrrman]

I think they ought to haul it up out of the lake, cut it up and make banjo bridges from it.
There's nothing like the sound of "old wood". Makes good banjo necks and guitar tops, too.

And as for the 4.6 trillion gallons of water in the lake (per the article), they should build a pipeline to Texas and Oklahoma. They could use it. Forget California though... let them bake in the drought!

Addendum:
I'll modify that -- send some to the farmers in the Central Valley.
But L.A.?
Furgeddaboutit!

[WingNot]

This Tree Trunk Has Been Floating Upright For 120 Years - And No One Knows Why

So experts are stumped?

Petrified in fact.

[rangerrebew]

Another good one!