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Earlier quoted context omitted.
The original terrarium was constructed and sealed in 1960, according to the article, and only watered since then once, in 1972.
I'm still confused, a century is 100 years right? 1960 + 100 = 2060. Am I missing something?
/EDIT nvm, I got confused. I guess whoever wrote the article did too
> In fact, more than a century has passed and David’s sealed bottle garden is still thriving and robust as can be. With thriving plant life, despite not watering it since 1972. "more than half a century" ?
The original terrarium was constructed and sealed in 1960, according to the article, and only watered since then once, in 1972.
I'm thinking we each make our own little ecosystem, maybe a half an acre would be enough. Maybe make it double walled, just in case, and then say screw it to everyone else as climate change and various other big things occur on the outside.
It would get too hot in most places, I think. Glass, especially if double walled, stops the heat getting out, but most of the heat from the sun will be able to get in (as infra-red). So you'd need supporting systems (i.e. air conditioning) outside.
...so basically all you'd need to do is just dig a hole, put a bunch of metal pipes inside, seal it all up and run cooling water through and couple it to a closed-loop temperature control and you're done.
The idea is from an article from overclockers.com from the mid-2000s, about a dude who built his own water-cooling system and wanted a more efficient radiator. Not sure if I can find it again...
Maybe not:
https://www.gardenmyths.com/garden-myth-born-plants-dont-pur...
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/indoor-p...
I wonder what other life forms are inside that jar apart from the plant. Is the tiny sealed world a paradise or a hell for them?
Are there any canonical guides to building a jar-rarium? Lots of crappy YouTube videos but nothing very thorough and complete.
After initial transportation failures, sealed terrariums were used by Robert Fortune to send stolen tea seedlings from China to India,[1] thus helping the British to break the nineteenth Century Chinese monopoly on tea production. [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00H9J1AM2/
After initial transportation failures, sealed terrariums were used by Robert Fortune to send stolen tea seedlings from China to India,[1] thus helping the British to break the nineteenth Century Chinese monopoly on tea production. [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00H9J1AM2/
Funny wording to use "break" for IP theft, it looks different when the British do it compared to when the Chinese do it, doesn't it?