Hah! I can't read this because ... provisional military junta in Thailand not happy with Daily Mail?
Some kind of breakdown here: http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2014/05/daily-mail-and-mail-o...
A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
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Re: A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
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You don't happen to care to elaborate, do you? I've looked all over the google and can't find anything that points to this being false.
I believe they're complaining because it comes from "TheDailyMail". Sometimes people acquire biases towards certain news sources, and then completely ignore pieces from it regardless if it's reasonably true or not, simply by virtue of it coming from "TheDailyMail". Similar to how people grow biases towards Fox/VoA.
In fairness, the Mail has massive and well studied form in what we can generously call 'making shit up'.
Re: A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
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People really hate the daily mail, don't they? It's a tabloid, but realistically you should be skeptical about everything the press puts out. However, when it's a plant in a jar, being skeptical is really just being a crank. It's a plant in a jar. Who cares? Besides, just because more credible papers mention the guy doesn't change the fact that you have to take him for his word. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/…
I think some people thrive on being contrarian, regardless of whether they have a valid reason for it or not. I just can't decide whether some people do it for the sake of appearing smart (look at me! I call everything into question!) or because they're extremely pessimistic and/or skeptical in nature. The problem with the latter is that it almost seems to be expressed in online discussions to a pathological extreme,…
I try to be rigorous in my thinking but I have also run into "skeptics" that are far too rigorous for daily life. My only complaint about this story is that it should be in the human interest section rather than the science section if it's too frivolous to subject to scrutiny.
Re: A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
#144Easiest explanation: they're fibbing. Somebody opens the bottle regularly. There's no reason to take every extraordinary claim posted on the internet at face value. Next we'll see bigfoot photos?
You're assuming it's an extraordinary claim. However, it seems as though it's a claim that is grounded in science and repeatable.
Its an outrageous stretch that a sealed bottle could support an ecosystem for decades; previous experiments achieved only months or a year or two.
Re: A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
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Cleaned from what exactly? Post science not speculation.
From The New York Times Garden Book: ...clear glass encourages the growth of algae... The bottle garden should be cleaned inside and out once a month. Algae growth tends to be rapid in bottle gardens... This monthly scrubbing and cleaning out is the key to the whole success story. Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=rSiFAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT522&pg=P... and: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7858411
Just seen this - nice links.
It seems the story is indeed disingenuous. Thanks for posting.