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How long can humans live in a closed ecosystem?
1. FIND THE FIRST TERRARIUM The world's oldest enclosed terrarium by David Latimer, the Terrarium is a miniature self-sustaining ecosystem also known as a basin or landscape. It's usually a moisture-resistant plant that's planted inside a large closed glass vessel. In 1960, David Latimer, an electromagnetic engineer in Southeast England, washed a 38-litre glass bottle, which was used to store sulfuric acid, he poured the mixture into a jar, planted a few spider grasses in it, watered it and then closed the jar. Latimer put the jar under the stairs in the house where there was indirect sunlight from time to time, and he turned the jar to make the leaves grow evenly. Since then, this closed ecosystem has beenined and developed strongly without interference, the only time the vessel was opened in 1972. David just needs some water. So exactly how a terrarium works and why it can sustain itself for decades, you could say explosive or exaggerated, but in essence it's a terrarium that can be seen as a tiny Earth but without humans and animals, in fact it has all three important cycles of life: the water cycle, the oxygen cycle and the nutrition cycle. The water is absorbed by the roots of the plant and then released from the leaves, condensed in the wall of the vessel and flowing back into the soil, the plant photosynthesizes and releases oxygen, and then uses it to breathe and to release CO2, while the bacteria in the ground use Oxygen to break down the leaf and release CO2 to the plant for fotosynthesis. The boy is covered, and the Earth is isolated by a space vacuum with limited resources, only the sunlight is almost infinite and it's free, so now you can see how similar these two things are. Because all resources are recycled and preserved, so in theory, a perfectly optimized terrarium can sustain itself for a very long time. However, balancing conditions such as light, humidity, temperature, plant type, microorganism, and pot size is not easy. In fact, Mr. David Latimer's reservoir is one of the best closed ecosystems on the planet. On average, reservoirs only sustain themselves for a few months to a few years before being damaged due to a lack of necessary degradants and cycles that are not completed effectively, and if nothing changes, Mr David Latimers reserver can continue to grow for decades while its owners die of old age and poor health.
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