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
#2So it has had water and presumably some atmosphere was exchanged when it was watered in 1972, 40 years ago. The title is somewhat misleading but 40 years is still a long time.
The stopper doesn't look like its particularly well fastened and could potentially pop up and allow leaks. Impressive but without closer inspection it looks like a slightly flawed execution to me. Maybe I'm just being pedantic. A picture of the starting point would be nice.
Re: A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
#3I used to love making those things with pickle jars:
https://www.google.com/search?q=pickle+jar+terrarium&es_sm=1...
I don't suppose my parents have any of them left though... they tended to get kind of crusty with something growing on the glass and blotting out the light.
Re: A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
#4Blogspam, original at
http://www.nollywoodone.com/latest-additions/8934-the-sealed...
Re: A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
#5Absolutely fascinating. The greatest Bio- / Hardware hack I've seen yet. Congrats to the gardener.
(Just assuming it's true)
Re: A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
#6What if we build a huge sealed bottle garden and send to Mars, can humans live in it!
Re: A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
#7Blogspam, original at http://www.nollywoodone.com/latest-additions/8934-the-sealed...
'The Internet Movie Database for Africa' is the original?
For that article it's probably the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2267504/The-s...
He started it in 1960 with 'about a quarter of a pint of water', then added water in 1972.
Re: A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
#8Easiest 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?
Re: A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
#9Blogspam, original at http://www.nollywoodone.com/latest-additions/8934-the-sealed...
'The Internet Movie Database for Africa' is the original? For that article it's probably the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2267504/The-s... He started it in 1960 with 'about a quarter of a pint of water', then added water in 1972.
it is indeed originally from the daily fail. that's their watermark bottom left.
Re: A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
#10So it has had water and presumably some atmosphere was exchanged when it was watered in 1972, 40 years ago. The title is somewhat misleading but 40 years is still a long time. The stopper doesn't look like its particularly well fastened and could potentially pop up and allow leaks. Impressive but without closer inspection it looks like a slightly flawed execution to me. Maybe I'm just being pedantic. A picture of the…
from the nollywoodone.com version:
"[he] has only watered the plant twice, the last time in 1972 when he oiled the plastic stopper so that it wedged so tightly it hasn't been out since."