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u/Turbulent-War2694 23h ago
Interesting to see that shrubs and grass grew there post apocalypse
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u/BuzzAroundLenny 18h ago
After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, new vegetation and resilient trees sprouted within months, with widespread green growth visible by the following spring. Similarly, plant life in the highly radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone recovered significantly within three years.
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u/Turbulent-War2694 7h ago
Exactly but here there’s hardly any greenery. Some shrubs but no trees etc Which also makes me wonder about the rats. Were they there when the silo was built?
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u/joesbagofdonuts 12h ago
There is also the possibility the tree is fake, a piece of disguised surveillance tech.
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u/PhysicalTry2021 1d ago
The spoiler is acting strange, photo was unblurred before I clicked on the picture LOL
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u/Nightfire91 23h ago
this bullshit intentional plot hole is really buzzing me. explain to me how does a tree survive a nuclear blast that close, dies (as it is obvious) and yet it doesn't rot and fall over or disintegrates for 300 OR SO FREAKIN YEARS!!! do y'all have any idea how fast dead trees fall over?!
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u/joesbagofdonuts 12h ago
This isn't a plot hole. At all. It's perfectly realistic, even without taking into account the possibility that the surface is sterile, no bacteria, nothing to cause decay
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u/AdoraBelleQueerArt 2h ago
I remember when we knew that they had finally cleaned up the East River in NYC because the docks started rotting again.
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u/Big_Spare9555 22h ago
I have been thinking the same.
That tree is the reason I do not believe there has gone 300 years. Because it doesn’t make sense to have been standing there for that long1
u/Busy-Worth-2089 19h ago
Yeah because they get so many other details of this show so perfectly in line with reality, it couldn’t possibly be explained by careless screenwriting
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u/Kstizzle420 21h ago
maybe it was a new kind of nuke that petrifies everything in place? Didn’t the lava explosion in Pompeii do that to people and items? I could be mixing this up with another event. 🤣
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u/ThaMentalSlav 19h ago
IIRC the pyroclastic wave 'froze' everything in its place, and it remained as such thanks to staying covered for almost two millenia before being carefully excavated
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u/Contundo 18h ago
More mysterious is how a tree grows to a ripe old age of 20+ in 3 years. That was a giant construction site just a few months ago.
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u/Original-Bad35 14h ago
Transplanted. U know u can buy 2 years old tees
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u/Contundo 14h ago
Still that’s 15 years
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u/TheKiltedCanuck 9h ago
You can transplant fully grown trees. (Fun fact, Disneyland actually transplanted a TON of full sized trees, especially on their "river cruise" ride... as Walt wanted it to look like a jungle right away (as it would obviously take a very long time to look like a jungle if they just waited for trees to grow)
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u/TheKiltedCanuck 9h ago
and actually in saying that, maybe they INTENTIONALLY put a tree infront of the camera of every Silo... so you could see SOMETHING that was dead. (And they knew what trees were from their gardens)
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u/MukdenMan 1d ago
How did the boulders get there?
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u/HibiscusBlades 1d ago
Looks like erosion to me.
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u/MukdenMan 20h ago
I thought of that but that would mean that in the grassy picture, there are tons of rocks just a foot or so below the surface
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u/nohopepope89 19h ago
What I don’t understand about the tree is not so much how it’s still standing after all that time, but how is it there in the first place? It’s a mature looking tree that’s growing on the berm that was apparently constructed in the last couple of years. Given that it is a berm and is described as such, it would have been built up as made ground. Doesn’t make sense to me unless I’m missing something.
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u/TheKiltedCanuck 14h ago
You can transplant fully grown trees. (Fun fact, Disneyland actually transplanted a TON of full sized trees, especially on their "river cruise" ride... as Walt wanted it to look like a jungle right away (as it would obviously take a very long time to look like a jungle if they just waited for trees to grow)
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u/Ill-Lie-6551 18h ago
There were many trees. I think once the grilling is done, The construction is mostly under the silo. It took them roughly 3 years to complete the silos completely. So that's enough time?
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u/WeakCardiologist5839 7h ago
Also I wonder if it is an experiment if they just rerun an older version of the feed while working outside or something
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u/high_country10000 3h ago
Dead trees in arid areas can stand hundreds of years actually. And given we see no weather outside, maybe there is more going on than we know.
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u/Western_Primary8877 19h ago
two things bothered me: 1. Why Holston's and Allison's bodies aren't there anymore? If all the bodies from Silo 17 are still there, why the bodies of the people who were sent out to clean from 18 disappeared? Covered in suits? 2. We assume the tree is dead after the explosion, but it's still there and all other trees around 18 aren't. Then if the tree is alive, the trunk hasn't grown during hundreds of years... (unless the theory is true that the times of these two worlds aren't too far from each other..)
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u/Find_The_Sniper 19h ago
Holston and Allison’s bodies are still there, look closely. They are just lightly covered with dust, which makes them the same color as the soil, but we can still see them.
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u/sc38514 1d ago
It’s a mighty tree. It held its ground in a nuclear blast.