Environnement et écologie
Un éco-système auto-suffisant a survécu plus de 60 ans
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Since 1960, David Latimer's sealed glass bottle has housed a thriving, self-sustaining garden. Opened only once in 1972 to add water, the ecosystem contains spiderwort plants and microbes that recycle air, nutrients, and water in perfect balance.
Photosynthesis and decay maintain the cycle, mimicking Earth's processes. This miniature, self-contained world demonstrates nature's resilience and the delicate equilibrium required to sustain life, flourishing untouched for over six decades.
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❌ Very likely fake.
A French scientist worked on the subject and explained in a podcast that the experiment reported by David Latimer was impossible:
https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/latac/latac-23-decembre-2013
In short, here’s the translated summary:
1️⃣ If you seal a plant and soil in a bottle without sterilising the environment, fungi and bacteria will develop. Yet here, there are no apparent “parasites.”
2️⃣ The water evaporated by the leaves should condense on the walls of the bottle (look at bottled plants in shops and you’ll always see some water on the glass).
3️⃣ The plant (a tradescantia, better known as wandering jew) normally flowers regularly. Yet here, there are no flowers, no flower remains, no buds... Very strange.
Conclusion: a pretty fable, but the experiment is scientifically impossible (beyond a few months).
Source: https://inf.news/en/home/b020d22f410e91bd3da1c1b0a61897a6.html
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