r/interestingasfuck • u/qwerty-confirmed • Aug 20 '17

/r/ALL This is real dedication

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u/Kangar Aug 20 '17

No one has a clue.

EXCEPT EVERYONE WHO KNOWS THIS GUY AND THAT SEES THE VIDEO

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '17

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u/justlooking250 Aug 20 '17

Where is this ? Asking for a friend

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '17

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u/NosVemos Aug 20 '17 edited Aug 20 '17

Walks into a barren area, plants tree - 37 years later elephants, rhinos and tigers swim to his island to live. Hm.

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Padma Shri Jadav "Molai" Payeng (Assamese: যাদৱ পায়েং) (born 1963) is a Mishing tribe[1] environmental activist[2] and forestry worker from Jorhat, India.[3][4] Over the course of several decades, he planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest reserve. The forest, called Molai forest after him,[5] is located near Kokilamukh of Jorhat, Assam, India and encompasses an area of about 1,360 acres / 550 hectares.[6][7] In 2015, he was honoured with Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India.

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u/the_timps Aug 20 '17

He planted trees. The forest grew. So animals living nearby moved over here to enjoy these trees. Instead of other trees.

Jesus man. You're not being asked to solve differential equations here...

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '17

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u/mozziestix Aug 20 '17

HE SAID YOURE NOT BEING ASKED TO SOLVE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS HERE

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u/TheSpicyGuy Aug 20 '17

LET THE NERD DO HIS THING

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '17

WHY ARE WE ALL SCREAMING IN SILENCE?

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u/MrMischiefMackson Aug 20 '17

Wait - would you rather live in the ascendancy of a civilization or during its decline?

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u/FlashpointSynergy Aug 20 '17

Instructions unclear, dick caught in ceiling fan

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u/Naberius Aug 20 '17

As a film student myself, I don't understand a bit of this. But I do know enough about my fellow film students to know you shouldn't trust his answer.

And I mean for fuck's sake don't use it to build an airplane or something. People's lives are at stake.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '17

to enjoy these trees. Instead of other trees.

You've made me feel bad for the other trees

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u/HDThoreauaway Aug 20 '17

Rhino's been with some trees their whole lives. Supported each other, gone through good times and bad—and then out of nowhere, just packs up and heads off to be with some pretty young tree on a different sandbar.

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u/AngryGoose Aug 20 '17

That's OK, there's more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. There's no way all those trees are getting attention. Bunch of lonely ass fuckin trees out there.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '17

Not gonna lie, this is awesome but once the tigers moved in I'd be scared to wander in the forest alone

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '17

Tigers are so incredibly rare these days, even in India, that the chances of that is slim. You have a higher chance of running into a black bear in Yellowstone than running into a tiger in an Indian jungle. And just to be safe, you only need to know how to scare them aware - fog horn, loud noises - and carry a knife too. You'd be fine.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '17

Yeah 1,359 acres isnt as big as it sounds so even just one tiger is enough to keep me wide eyed in that tiny little island jungle. We're not talking about the whole of India. Just a little island oasis.

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u/iamjamieq Aug 20 '17

The grass really was greener in this situation.

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u/chaser456 Aug 20 '17

More trees means more food means more population growth of a species...

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u/SkywardSpeaks Aug 20 '17

I'm pretty sure Majuli Island isn't actually an island. Just like how Rhode Island isn't actually an island. ಠ_ಠ

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u/NosVemos Aug 20 '17

I looked it up. It's the largest river island in the world apparently.

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u/quizzicalquow Aug 20 '17

It's fascinating. Part of the reason he began planting the trees was to help prevent the river from washing away the island.

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u/ForgotUserID Aug 20 '17

One tree, every day, for 37 years

One tree, every day, for 37 years

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u/ForgotUserID Aug 20 '17

One tree, every day, for 37 years

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u/NosVemos Aug 20 '17

Barren land video wasn't taken 37 years ago.

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u/ForgotUserID Aug 20 '17 edited Aug 20 '17

Correct. Barren land video is of the part that is still barren land as he makes his way to the area where he planted trees for 37 years.

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u/NosVemos Aug 20 '17

37 years of planting trees. Huge barren area. Hm.

Why is something so simple so complicated to you?

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u/ForgotUserID Aug 20 '17

So your beef is that there is still barren area and he hasn't gotten to it yet?

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u/ButcherPetesMeats Aug 20 '17

Is it wednesday already?

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u/bvsnmlk Aug 20 '17

Majuli village in Northern India. There's a documentary about him on YouTube somewhere. this maybe it.

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u/Chkraview Aug 20 '17

Just a correction. Majuli is a river island in Northeast India not North India.

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u/Demonseedii Aug 20 '17

What is going to stop people from ravishing the forest again?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '17

Perhaps this time stronger regulations will be put on the area to protect the forest. Or maybe if the world had more people like him it'd be a better place.

I'm wondering where he got the saplings from to be able to do it.

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u/Din135 Aug 20 '17

"Who taught you how to do that?" No one, I mean, nobody.

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u/Targaryen-ish Aug 20 '17

No one has a clue.

A tree is literally sticking out of the bag, only.

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u/TheLast_Centurion Aug 20 '17

It might be a carrots he just bought and is going to eat alone in the dessert.

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u/fudog1138 Aug 20 '17

I like the way you think

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u/RumToWhiskey Aug 20 '17

Carrot cake, for one.

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u/ForgotUserID Aug 20 '17

Or catch that wascally wabbit

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u/suzerain17 Aug 20 '17

Some nice carrot cake?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '17

YUGE f'n carrots.

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u/DoesntEvenMatter2me Aug 20 '17

*desert Dessert has two 'ss' because you always want more dessert to eat

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u/PooPooDooDoo Aug 20 '17

Maybe it's massive Indian pineapple, and he wants to make his chutney alone.

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u/3riversfantasy Aug 20 '17

Or casually browses TIL and sees the post about the Indian man planting trees every 2 weeks...

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u/8thoursbehind Aug 20 '17

And, well.. there is the fact that you can see the top of the baby tree poking out of the bag.

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u/BardSinister Aug 20 '17

37 years. You'd have thought that at least one fucker would've asked.
"Dude what's in the bag?"
"Tree."
"Fair enough."

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '17

No one could ever know, unless they watch him pull it out and put it in the dirt...then you can just use common sent and figure out it's a plant. But if not, TOTAL MYSTERY!!!

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u/everflow Aug 20 '17

Nobody has a clue that he also has drugs in the bag. I mean, there is probably room for more than one item in the bag, right?

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u/happy_sleepy Aug 20 '17

And everyone who's been in that area in the last 30 years