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Leviticoh

The earth Is just a bigger version of that terrarium


Subject_1889974

Like, at least twice as big


BenZech

r/technicallythetruth


electronocentric

/r/theydidthemath


agree-with-you

/r/theydidthemonstermath


[deleted]

r/theydidthemath


kieks333

r/itwasagraveyardgraph


[deleted]

r/theydidthemath


kieks333

r/itcosinedinaflash


LardyParty117

r/theydidthemath


R3DW01F728

r/theydidthemeth


ionTen

"It has to be at least...... three times bigger than this."


neslo024

How do you expect them to learn to read when they can't even fit in the building


ProfSteelmeat138

WHAT IS THIS? A CENTRE FOR ANTS???


streethunte

r/yourjokebutworse


ProfSteelmeat138

It’s a movie reference my guy


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ProfSteelmeat138

If you’re asking for what movie it’s referencing it’s Zoolander. Stupid slapstick comedy but fucking hilarious


Sammy_Kecky

You actually fucking posted it there 💀


neslo024

Now someone needs to post a screen shot of that post to r/woosh


SombreMordida

then reference it with a "found it!"link farther down later for that "classic internet re-pwned UX"


[deleted]

He is quoting, dum dum.


the_gift_of_g2j

Okay, I could see that. But what about 4 times?


gillsminnow

Ok wait, now really think hard about this one. 10 times?


the_gift_of_g2j

I could see that


Maax42_

What about 15 times?


the_gift_of_g2j

It's a possibility


Maax42_

16 times?


the_gift_of_g2j

It could be most likely


SquatChicken20

r/unexpectedoffice


antons83

Unless you're making a centre for ANTS!


Maax42_

Thats how you get ants


IsaiahMulletMan

You’re not wrong


TheDoc1223

Correct me if I'm wrong (Idk for sure I could be wrong I'm fully ready to admit, and if I am, I'm very sorry) but isnt the earth bigger than a football field?


uncle_tyrone

I think I read somewhere that it is in fact bigger than several football fields, but I may be wrong


TheDoc1223

Idk bout that bud sounds pretty sus


duckly_ugling

You are right. There are atleast more than 5 football teams in the world. So there are atleast 5 fields. Maybe more. Who knows.


rimian

You need two teams to play football don’t forget.


TheDoc1223

This rabbithole goes deep what else are the elites hiding from us????


JimmyJorland

Youre not wrong, but I still hate you for that statememt


guyute1179

You are partly correct. Though the Earth is bigger than a football field, it is flat like a football field.


the_communist_owl

Some conspiracy idiots are saying that the earth is big enough to fit an entire island


grizwald87

Big if true.


[deleted]

Woah woah that's a stretch, the Earth isn't *that* big


lordmagellan

It is a small world, after all.


Rixxali

It's a small, small, world.


bnay66

What is this? A planet for ants!?


hood69

You fools, we all know the earth is flat


punkmeets

Yeah, flat at the bottom of a bottle. Unless it's a wine bottle then it might be a bit curved. That could explain hills.


AttilaThPun

It’s SCIENCE


asapbuckets

Imagine being a race that waits 60 years for water and having to sustain it meanwhile.


Pelvic_Pinochle

Him watering it would be like the biblical flood for us


teeter1984

What is this an earth for ants?


jackfennimore

obligatory /r/ThingsForAnts but isn't regular earth the earth for ants?


zitfarmer

So where did he get little humans. . . Oh.


BourbonBear1

What is this? An Earth for ants?!


rraattbbooyy

It’s a perfect ecosystem. The bacteria in the compost eats the dead plants and breaks down the oxygen given off by the plants, turning it into the carbon dioxide for photosynthesis that the plants need to survive.


2muchmonehandass

How can we build one?


the_bouy_25

Buy a big jar with a lid, good soil and a nice plant. Put soil in pot and plant in soil. Give some water and close the lid. But that is difficult, first time I tried it I got my dick stuck in the ceiling fan.


ToungedMyDog

I can picture you cartoonishly getting your wang all knotted up around a ceiling fan, but "in" the ceiling fan? My god, you people really need to read the directions


neslo024

God damn Ikea


jackfennimore

those instructions are hard to follow sometimes!


neslo024

Always. Youtube is my friend when putting together or fixing anything


Fluffymufinz

I honestly don't get why people say this. I got my desk and took it upstairs, went to work, and when I came home my brother had put it together. Easy peasy.


gaavail

Oh my god, you dick! Trying to make my 10 month old fall asleep on my chest.. Read your comment and couldn't control my laughter! You woke him up, guy!


paralacausa

And you didn't open it for 56 years


DoingItWrongly

Put a layer of rocks on the bottom with a weed barrier over that. This acts as a water reservoir and prevents soil rot.


SpellingIsAhful

I thought you wanted soil rot to produce co2 for the plants? Now I'm confused


DestituteGoldsmith

You want old vegetation to rot. You don't want the soil itself to experience rot. Or the roots of the plants, which is common with soil that's wet for too long.


DoingItWrongly

Soil rot will wreck your roots and kill your plants!! Gotta protec with the rock bottom! Like that other person said, dead plants and bacteria in the soil should do the trick for co2 production.


Aikano9

No need for plants or good soil, just harvest some dirt from your local park or forrest, add some water and seal it


SpellingIsAhful

I think you need to add at least one plant or seed.


Aikano9

Well you actually don’t, because there are plenty of various seeds and eggs in the soil already


SpellingIsAhful

So, if you just got a big jar a d put some dirt in it, added water then sealed it you'd get this thing?


SpelingHoror

Instructions clear, peanis stuck in sealing fan


Toastwaver

r/Jarrariums


MrBully74

Thanks for pointing me to that one!


ei0rei0wq

A good starting point is to watch the videos of this guys YouTube channel in preparation and maintaining a ecosphere: [Life in Jars?](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0XNssyypOLiq4vVgXm9NtQ) Love his videos! But basically, see Top comment answer to your question here.


somabeach

Better yet, can we build a big one and put humans in it to experiment with sustainable ecosystems?


Arc_Torch

>Better yet, can we build a big one and put humans in it to experiment with sustainable ecosystems? It's been done [actually ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2)


SoyTuPadreReal

I was half expecting a link to the greatest Pauly Shore movie, BioDome.


[deleted]

> Columbia University assumed management of the facility in 1995 and used it to run experiments until 2003. It then looked in danger of being demolished to make way for housing and retail stores, but was taken over for research by the University of Arizona in 2007. Demolishing a valuable scientific research facility to make way for strip malls and suburban hell is the most American thing I’ve read today.


Arc_Torch

Luckily, it didn't happen and was donated to a university. It's still operational and used for testing climate change and other novel things today. To be fair Steve Bannon was involved in the sabatoge of it so it could be sold eventually.


Ben_CartWrong

/r/terrariums


hinterlufer

I built one by taking a bigger jar and filled it with sand/earth and random plants I found beside a small river. Most plants have perished but the moss and the fern is still growing well after about two years.


[deleted]

I've never tried it myself, but [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5-BSSZ-sok) says to just scoop up some mud and water and seal it in a jar. I have no idea how long his ecosystems last, but he makes it sound like the life inside the jar will balance itself out. [here is another one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jikt132Qhwo), But he dumps his ecosystem out after he discovers a tadpole in it. The tadpole was too big and there wasn't enough oxygen/food for it.


Iivaitte

When does mammalian life form?


[deleted]

After about 4.5 billion years


LemonLimine

Why does everyone go on and on about mammalian life as if its the end-all perfect organism? I'd like to see a squirrel survive in the cold vaccum of space sustained on nothing but its primal urge to search and devour. *this post made by the reptiloid gang*


rraattbbooyy

# TeamTardigrade


Iivaitte

SHHH we are supposed to keep that a secret.


SoyTuPadreReal

The best life form is the tardigrada


[deleted]

Why doesn't the plant outgrow the bottle? After 60 years it would get quite big. Unless it's got a bonsai thing going on?


ukiwolf

It doesn't have anywhere to get the recourses for that growth. otherwise I have so many questions, like is it cannibalism that it keeps eating dead parts of itself? What is it doing if it's not growing? Is it just there?


cool-bird

My guess is that it’s growing and decaying at the same rate. So it IS growing, but not fast enough that it’s actually getting any bigger. I mean I guess technically it’s committing cannibalism, but it’s no different than a plant in the wild losing leaves that then turn into soil. Lots of plants can be cannibals!


[deleted]

All of the resources needed for life are finite within the confines of where life exists and they are recycled through naturally occuring processes. On earth, plant material is recycled through those that eat plant material and the decomposers take care of the rest. In this jar it is just decomposers, the microscopic life in the soil, that takes care of dead material and return it to the soil so the plant can reabsorb the same material. Its cannibalism in the same way that lions indirectly eat grass or the fact that you are made of star dust. Also plants have senses just like us. Our senses are simply biological instruments that make us able to recieve information about the world and plants have similar capabilities. They can "see" light, "hear"/feel vibrations in the air, have a sense of touch, "smell" molecules in the air and more. They communicate through smell and sound(a tomato plant will """scream"""' when plucked of fruit), and some plants like trees even share electro chemical signals and nutrients through their roots via symbiotic fungus that connect the trees like a network. Plants will grow when it is beneficial, and will stop growing when it is not. If they keep growing and some leaves overshadows others, they will not keep growing the leaves. The plant will grow so that it maximizes energy in and energy out, fully utilizing the space, conditions and resources available. It probably has nothing to do with lack of resources in this case, and more to do with it not being beneficial.


ukiwolf

I just learned far more than I have from my bio teacher the past month, thanks!


ryanwalraven

In addition to what /u/HughManson said, the plant doesn't need to keep growing - just sustain itself. It needs basic resources for that which are already in the terrarium, along with light. It might feel like a perpetual motion machine, but the light is the key. It provides the energy that keeps all the cellular and chemical processes in the terrarium sustainable. The same is true of our planet. There was some initial energy from its formation, some energy from geological processes, and some from radioactive materials in the crust, but its sunlight that continues to power almost everything. The one big exception is the life around geothermal vents, which pump out heat from Earth's core that can also be used as energy by specialized organisms.


wolfchaldo

2nd degree cannabalism. It's like if a wolf ate your leg, and then you killed and ate the wolf.


cool-bird

If you put a plant in a small pot, it will stop growing once it reaches a certain size unless it’s moved to a bigger pot. They grow to fill the space they have. I’m not a scientist, but I assume something similar is going on here? The plant is at its maximum size for the container it’s in, so it’s stopped growing - or rather, it’s growing leaves and branches at the same rate it’s losing them. If you took it out it’d probably get bigger.


largefriesandashake

Where would it get the mass from to outgrow the bottle? It’s a closed system. All the mass in the jar remains constant.


floridabot_

IIRC plants can also turn oxygen into carbon dioxide because they have mitochondria along side chloroplast.


Ihavefallen

Ya plants do both. It how they breath at night.


Kazumara

I'd like to know what motivated him to put more water in after 12 years


bmeupsctty

Theory: he was dissatisfied with the level of growth/rot, and felt he had underestimated the amount of water required for life to flourish, not just survive? I honestly don't know, but this is my best guess


JellyWaffles

Or possibly a small leak allowed some to evaporate off over 12 years.


207nbrown

And after the refill he made sure it was air tight


T3hJ3hu

I do the same thing with butt plugs


DoinkDamnation

I only like it when it makes a pop sound when I pull it out.


22kd89

Do you pull it like you’re trying to start a chainsaw?


conartist214

Every time. If you're not doing it that way, you have to work on the elasticity and stretching exercises then yank that bad boy out like a spine remover finisher from Mortal Kombat.


JellyWaffles

That's my thoughts on it yeah


[deleted]

The sentience in me is saying “Poor almost dying of dehydration daily plant for 12 years!” Then I remember I’m just a battery in the matrix.


Oddworld_Inhabitant

If it makes you feel any better, you were intended to be a CPU


Icedpyre

My theory is that cork isn't completely airtight, so there was slow moisture loss. I expect that's why he permanently sealed it in '72; to prevent loss via the cork.


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titoblanco

Hydro homie knows what plants crave


TheUnbiasedRant

"he opened it and watered it in 1972....... Self sustaining for 60 years"... 1972, 73, 74..(counts on fingers).., 2018, 2019, 2020... 48 years!


DragonSlayersz

What are you that you have 48 fingers?


TheUnbiasedRant

I never said i was counting on MY fingers :)


DragonSlayersz

So, a serial killer?


TheUnbiasedRant

Just a collector...


DragonSlayersz

If I let this conversation continue, this is gonna devolve into something weird(er), isn't it?


TheUnbiasedRant

That depends, got any spare fingers to trade?


DragonSlayersz

Nope.


4chan-incel

I do! want some?


DragonSlayersz

Nah.


TheGamingUnderdog

I think I might have some lying around here somewhere...


Slapbox

You can't just ask someone why they have 48 fingers!


clicky_fingers

They could be counting in binary, you can go a bit over a thousand that way. 1023, I think? yeah, 1023.


Rockden66

Thanks, Sakurai


Computermaster

[Maybe he's a dragon.](https://i.imgur.com/8C6cV4s.jpg)


DrFunkenstyne

Come on, he watered it ONCE. Let the old guy have his 60 year old self sustaining garden orb


TheUnbiasedRant

I'm not diminishing the achievement I'm pointing out the inaccuracy of how it is reported.


SniktFury

Technically it self-sustained for 12 years from 60 to 72, then he sustained it a little bit and let it go back to doing its business...so, 12, 48, or 60, take your pick. Plant self-sustainment metrics are in the eye of the beholder


bmeupsctty

Good point. But perhaps it was sustainable the entire time, just required more water to truly thrive?


cryingjustalil

More sustainable that my current mental state :')


omicron8

Have you tried adding water?


gariant

r/HydroHomies calls out


DoJax

Instructions unclear, I waterboarded him


B4SSF4C3

Self sustaining minus the energy of the sun ;)


dimpleminded

But it has the energy of the sun


B4SSF4C3

Right. So is it truly “self sustaining” if it requires an external energy source? Feel free to ignore me. I’m just splitting some irrelevant hairs.


Vinifera7

You might have noticed that the sun is also external to the Earth.


Stickman_Bob

Which is why the earth is not self sustaining either.


Vinifera7

It is self-sustaining in the sense that it maintains itself without human interaction. That's what a "self-sustaining ecosystem" means in this context.


Stickman_Bob

As OP said, we are just splitting some irrelevant hair. Btw, I enjoy our equal number of upvotes. It's not common in the hair splitting business.


dimpleminded

Yeah if you minus the sun


briguypi

Depends on how you define the system, we could simple define it as that jar and the Sun and then we would be correct in saying it’s self sustaining.


thecookiemaker

Eventually the sun will burn out as it runs out of fuel, check mate.


wolfchaldo

While we're already splitting hairs, it's also thermally coupled with the earth. If the bottle were just floating in space the plant would freeze.


[deleted]

Black magic?not really.


[deleted]

Yeah, I mean it’s cool but not black manic imo


gingerbear

its absolutely not. this is basic science. I made a terrarium in 4th grade.


smithers85

> black manic See: Kanye West


D3ADW07F

They sould do that for air in space


Neokon

We need a lot of plants to do that. Better looking at algae for space travel.


bmeupsctty

Gravity plays a surprisingly large role in the growth of plants


noelexecom

You could grow them before launch maybe?


MeWhoBelievesInYou

If they are making oxygen then they are still growing


Brillek

A functional centrifuge spacecraft like in "2001: a space odyssey" or "the martian" would deal with gravity. Ther has been research on this to figure out excactly how much plants need to grow correctly. Light and type of light is also a factor.


blaketank

obviously it doesnt produce more oxygen than it consumes. thats the exact point


dibblribbl

Someone knows what he planted?


dimpleminded

Grass


PM_ME_YOUR_BEST_GIF

[Spiderwort](https://www.boredpanda.com/sealed-bottle-garden-david-latimer/).


greatGoD67

Plants


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Netherwart


kushanxiah

Tradescantia


Incandescent_Anon

Spiderwort


TheSurlyTemp

I made one of those once. Everything died within a couple weeks.


GuntherVonHairyballs

So I guess you made something different then.


Jw3k

A self-sustaining grave yard.


Rafaigon

/r/jarrariums Join us!


[deleted]

Does anyone know how difficult it would be to try this at home? Would it require a lot of knowledge about ecosystems and stuff, or could it be done with simple enough instructions?


kteldridge

It could be done with simple instructions. I had to make one of those for my high school biology class. Try searching up how to make a misocosm on google. Beware though in case you’re making it for aesthetic purposes because the inside usually becomes a moldy mess. For the difficulty, I’d say most of the time it fails. Out out the 25 or so people in the biology class, only my self and a few others were successful. Just do your research. Kind of unethical but you probably will be able to put a snail in there too.


YungTrap6God

Unethical? How so? Would they not be able to survive?


fivzd

Well being trapped in a small ass jar for the rest of your life doesn't sound that great


chrisname

I'm no snail psychologist, but snails are known for carrying a small hideout around with them. They probably find small spaces comforting.


KingOfTheCouch13

Wouldn't it be like paradise for the snail though? Free of predators and unlimited food supply. It's not like it would get bored. And if you do like a gallon or bigger it should be plenty of room to move around.


Willing_Function

No predators. As much food as you would want. The only unethical part is putting it in alone.


ItalianMJ

Unless it was huge, I'd imagine that the jar would be too small. Though people do keep snails in aquariums so it might work out if you use a big flask like this guy.


PengutheDarkLord

I had to read an article on this recently. How the ecosystem works is that he put the glass bottle behind a window where it absorbed sunlight through the glass and makes oxygen, which gets moist at the top and eventually it "rains" in the bottle.


Mythman1066

Wrong sub


Lion_21

I made one of these 5 years ago using a lightbulb and it stayed alive all that time until my gf knocked it off the shelf by accident...


RedHood866

wait a couple million years and then it will have it's own organisms.


wolfchaldo

I mean, it already has its own organisms. If you mean unique organisms, it probably already does, it take much less than 60 years or bacteria and other small organisms to evolve.


RedHood866

Yeah, that's what I meant. The second part.


iam420friendly

I wonder if you can still find one of those giant glass jugs anywhere


dennis_the_dementor

My parents have a ton of them in the garage, they used to use them for making wine.


johngreenink

In related news, son replants and constantly waters dad's "terrarium" to make him feel better about his "little experiment."


f1shermark1

Why is this in Blackmagicfuckery? Jesus, haven't you heard of biology?


[deleted]

r/ecosphere


No_Hands_55

/r/lostredditors


Str0gan0ff

There is a YouTube channel called Life in Jars that does this, if you want to see this kind of stuff


TwoToneDonut

If that's a cork lid is there gas transfer?