Is it really so outrageous to think that years ago there were ENORMOUS trees that all became petrified after a massive...

Buh it's a jewish conspiracy, geology is all lies and the jews made CGI to trick us!

Because plants aren't made of fucking steel, holy shit you're dumb.

If the steel is so strong how can one steel support many otgers that are just as strong? An ant can only carry 5 times her body weight.

>assuming the gender of all ants

Slicone nano tubes.

Rock/crystal trees

>Not realizing that this is b8 and shitpost. As evidenced by:

and many more that I missed.

>CO2 levels were much higher millions of years ago

Prove it. You can't, because the truth is that oxygen levels were higher, not CO2 levels.

>Prove it.
The concept of proof is alien to science. It only applies to axiom-based reasoning.
Carbon dioxide concentrations have been much, much higher in the distant past, e.g. about five times the current level during the Jurassic period and up to 7000 ppm in Cambrian times (wikipedia).

I don't see it as impossible for these trees to exist; there's no good reason getting fluids that high should be impossible (we know of no trees with growth capped by their simplistic methods of transporting water), and long in the past it seems like competition between species was a lot simpler, involving a lot more size competition.

However, an unusual scenario of petrification would be necessary for those mesas to be trees.