RE: Snaps Container // 1732404960

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David Latimer sealed this bottle in 1972, since then the plants are growing completely independently, a fully self-sustaining microcosmos!
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Which species is it?

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He seems to be a human being, the plant species I don´t know.
But the plant alone would be doomed to die, there are more beings there, like fungi & bacteria who eat the rotten leaves and convert them back to water, minerals and CO2 from which the plant feeds then again.

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I was asking about the plants :) Most of them would die within weeks, or months at best, sealed like this. With no water, CO2, nutrients... It's truly astonishing.

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The water is there! It is not lost, but re-used over and over!
Like in fact the water on Earth, just in a smaller scale. We on Earth are as well in a closed system and the water is re-used as well :)

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I know, that's obvious. Seal any plants you have at home in a large jar and see for yourself what happens in that microsystem, though ;)

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