A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017)

Re:A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017) by wallace_f on Monday May 20, 2019 @05:28AM (#19958689)

>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.

>David planted the terrarium back in 1960

I'm so annoyed by the above. Is this article written in 2060?

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Re:A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017) by V-2 on Monday May 20, 2019 @05:39AM (#19958737)

Pretty sure they meant "more than half a century".

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Re:A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017) by chrismbarr on Monday May 20, 2019 @09:15AM (#19959979)

I also re-read this several times trying to make sense of it. I kept looking for a early 1900's date somewhere I must have missed...

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Re:A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017) by logfromblammo on Monday May 20, 2019 @10:38AM (#19960733)

> "The Sealed Garden That Was Only Watered Once in 53 Years"

> "In 1960 David Latimer got curious and decided to plant a glass bottle with seed."

> "Posted on March 22, 2017 by Davin"

1960 + 53 = 2013

They have apparently had 4 years to find and catch the "century" error prior to posting, and another 2 years since.

I can't tell if there was any cheating, because the article does not specify how much compost was placed in the bottle initially, or its composition. So I can't estimate whether there's actually enough carbon or water in the bottle to support the visible amount of living plant mass. He should have measured the mass of the whole thing in 1960, and at least once per year thereafter, so he could show that the total mass remained the same.

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Re:A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017) by stcredzero on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:00PM (#19962436)

He has the right look. Perhaps he's a Time Lord?

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