I can imagine after Cody has passed, many years after, and people come to search his house to find all of his awesome experiments and inventions and then on his desk under the window light you see a box with the shrimp in still alive, eat and producing and continuing the cycle of life in a box. Please make a Shrimp In a Box Three please a few months after this one or when something happens to the first if ever and give us a update on the latest one.
Researchers or paleontologist thousands of years from now and possibly extraterrestrial in origin trying to figure out why everything is dead except these curious blocks will be slightly baffled to find an unusual content of heavy water. Maybe we are the brine shrimp in a slightly larger and more complicated block of someones house as well.
Fantastic experiment, I really need to make one of these. I like the glass blocks as tiny self-contained environments, and a window of them would be fascinating to see. Do it! I wonder how tardigrades would do.
Iodine isn't bad for shrimp, as a matter of fact, shrimp like krill are high in iodine. BTW, you should try these self sustaining tanks with other species. Triops are a good option, so are Killifish and livebearing fish like guppies and platys. Killifish would be interesting, because their eggs can survive out of water. They are one of the few vertebrate animals that have a behavior called diapause, which stops or delays the growth of eggs until conditions are right
Put some radiation source (Uranium Ore or small confined UV light) to induce the mutation and evolution of the species. Eventually, if only bacteria survive, they will be unique in the entire Earth.
Why it should be Illegal? We are receiving high doses of Radiation. Actually, the Shrimps in the glass are probably more shielded than in the environment.
Honestly, nobody gives two shits about what you do to common bacteria as long as you don't create bio-weapons. It's the same as breeding yourself a unique breed of roses for your garden
pro tip , if you dissolve the things that would do a double displacement separately, they get to concentrations where they don't crash out of solution. Learned that when I was doing work experience at the hydroponics shop.
Can you one make a long running live stream of them called life in a box. Two please sell this I will buy one for up to 60 dollars and I am assuming the rest of the internet would to
EcoSphere brand versions of this have been known to run with shrimp populations for 20 years, so I'd suppose 'lots'. I wonder if they end up genetically identical after a while.
George Charalambous my hypnosis is that a simpler set of genetics is harder to mess up. So a low amount of seed genetics shouldn't effect the diversity of the shrimp. Also the system should not change in a wat that requires them to adapt. So the genetic downfall is more likely to be genetic drift then inbreeding. According to my hypothesis.
I love how if you follow cody's channel for long enough you start to say "Oh thats where project went" Then it turns out you're remembering a vid from years ago
Honestly the fact that you always seem to have at least a half dozen experiments/activities going on is so fucking cool. Getting to watch beekeeping, mining/refining, vacuum chamber tests, and cool chemical reactions all in the same week is a beautiful thing.
@@chrishuab2364 Which was due to concrete walls slowly absorbing O2 which decreased the concentration in the air. Otherwise it worked fine, although not perfectly.
I have a corked glass soda bottle with freshwater, algae, gravel, and some tiny daphnia-like animals. There used to be a little duckweed in there, but that has decayed after a period of not growing. There also used to be 2 small pond snails, but they never reproduced and later died. The algae growth used to fluctuate wildly, but it has now stabilized to a small "bush" at the bottom. It's pretty neat and shows no signs of stopping.
In the 70's they marketed these to children...I remember getting them and putting them in some water and watched them grow and swim...can not for the life of me remember what they were called, but this sure did bring back memories.
1:30 You mentioned that it would need a shielding against radiation. As far as I know, some smaller creatures can handle lots of radiation. Like the LD50/30 for a human is somewhere around 3 Gray, whereas for a wasp its at about 1000 Gray (according to wikipedia). For smaller creatures like these shrimps it should be even higher, right? Would be cool it you could expose them to some radiation (but be careful).
This is a pretty cool idea- Cody. I'm sure you could devise a way to replace the atmosphere and dissolved gasses for a really awesome experiment! Replace some of the inert nitrogen with more oxygen. How would a high-oxygen environment (say 30%) affect the brine shrimp over several successive generations?? What morphological changes could be observed? Increased size?? Changes in proportions? ... who knows??? You could simulate various atmospheres - at different periods in Earth history (like the Paleozoic era). That would be very interesting indeed. I'm sure the professors at Utah will all want one... How else could one go about devising such an experiment?? Your glass box is unique in this way. Once you set the basic atmospheric perimeters - that's it! It will last seemingly forever. I can't think of an easier way to conduct such a long-term "maintenance-free" experiment. What would happen in 20 years time if the culture is sustained? ...or 50 years?? Can you even imagine? Then crack 'em open and take a look at the biology. Anyway thanks for the upload, look forward to seeing more!
You don't have to be a professional to make sure you know what you're talking about before answering a question, almost all of this can be found somewhere on wikipedia
Evolution does not always take millions of years. There are swallow populations for instance that live close to major highways who have slightly shorter wings than their normal counterparts because having shorter wings makes them more maneuverable and enables them to evade cars better. There are also rattle snake populations who have lost their ability to rattle since humans would kill them so much and one way to find them was to get them to rattle by pissing them off with noise so you could hear where they are. The ones with deformed rattles would survive more often because they didn't get killed by humans.
Alright, wacky idea time: After long periods of adaptation to each box, could you start a selective breeding process with adults from each box and see if you can breed a super-shrimp of some sort? I'm talking like, subject one box to "enhanced gravity" via centripetal forces, subject another box to minimal light energy, subject another box to sustained water currents, subject another box to low temperatures, subject another box to high temperatures, etc. Do all of these things until each box's shrimp have adapted to thrive in each condition, THEN begin selective breeding to try to get offspring with multiple adaptations. It would take years, and each condition would probably have to be gradually increased over time until the shrimp are able to survive and thrive in each extreme condition.
The grass probably started from the cow chips. From when they ate the grass and some seeds didn't get digested. Since it is concealed the water in it couldn't escape. Basically creating an atmosphere like area that causes condensation and then precipitation. The container allows enough light in to allow photosynthesis. Darn great experiment.
Cody, a question. Begining at around 12:12 the projection of your laser on your wall (right half the of the video) looks like a rolling image of some sort (you can see blobs and patches projected and moving to the right). I can not understand how that got projected. Any idea?
That's even more confusing Cody... That or I'm too damn dumb to understand. If the radiometer was rotating COUNTER-clockwise, why was the chamber rotating clockwise?
@@theCodyReeder Dear Cody I have a question too. I wont ask strictly why did you end this video with such a great experiment for human race... I mean... If I understand nature right - we should just add a bit of copper coil and neodymium magnet thingy to make a solar engine... Can you contact me please - I wont be annoying - just few questions. Please man - Dnt wanna ask anything else here. Ty! Looking forward to hearing from you. From Russia with love!
I have never gotten this much enjoyment out of one of your videos, this one is strangely entertaining and inspiring, as of about 3 minutes ago, I just purchased some brine shrimp online and I have found all the ingredients necessary to make my own self sustaining eco-system, there will be a video of this on my channel within about 2 or 3 weeks (depending on how long it takes the brine shrimp to arrive!)
Hey girl I got somethin' real important to give you So just sit down and listen Girl you know we've been together such a long long time (such a long time) And now I'm ready to lay it on the line (Wooow) You know it's Christmas and my heart is open wide Gonna give you something so you know what's on my mind A gift real special, so take off the top Take a look inside -- it's my shrimp in a box Not gonna get you a jelly fish That sort of gift don't mean anything Not gonna get you a great white shark Girl ya gotta know you're my shining star Not gonna get you a Buch of gills A girl like you needs somethin' reel (get it)
hey cody, ive always thought the sealed self sustaining system was an awesome idea. remember when the "bioshere" project went into effect? anyway, i have a Q: would a sealed system, such as your shrimp box or grass container, gain mass, (however small) due to conversion of sunlight into sugars/energy => mass?? would the container fill up eventually? anyway, hope your well. :-D
Hoby stores have them with holes drilled already, Hardware stores have them, tend to be in the shower sections as they get used in shower stub walls and such to let light in.
the water would not freeze because energy is distributed on earth through contact if there isn't anything in space nothing touches the glass container meaning any energy that is produced by the container in the form of heat would just build up until the container is too hot to support life or until it breaks
*adds heavy water just to fuck with well-meaning researchers that may find your experiment in the future* Never change, Cody.
I can imagine after Cody has passed, many years after, and people come to search his house to find all of his awesome experiments and inventions and then on his desk under the window light you see a box with the shrimp in still alive, eat and producing and continuing the cycle of life in a box.
Please make a Shrimp In a Box Three please a few months after this one or when something happens to the first if ever and give us a update on the latest one.
And when researchers analyse the box they will be puzzled as to why it had a higher concentration of deuterium...
"mama mia these shrimp poop deuterium! Our world is saved!"
thats really romantic and unreal. But oh well.
He already said he is going to to an update video.
I know, saying anyway tho.
You should set up a livestream with the shrimps. Name it "Life in a box"
With music playing in the background
Imagine living in a small universe and seeing another one you will never interact with every day. Life in a box.
DO IT!
That would probably go viral
Yes please! I'll make it my wallpaper :D
"Shrimp in a box 3" has been searched for so many times that it has become one of RUclips's auto-complete defaults. Please update this story.
some time ago Cody mentioned that all shrimps died :((
It was pointless to dicate full video to Shrimp colony obituary.. :D
The shrimp live! new video coming soon!
@@matt.604 WHAT? really? like for real? like you not lyin? can i trust you?
Patrick Sweetman still true!
@@SlumMattress It is. The video is available on his Patreon. Not sure when he will post it publicly here.
You should sell these, I would totally buy one to sit on my desk and look at.
CasuallyAwesome they sell them but are super expensive
CasuallyAwesome they already do. Their called Seamonkey's
dwax74
they're*
dwax74 they're
couple dollars at walmart.
You grew a lawn inside a tank. I'm not sure how to process that.
The Lawn Care Nut, damn does this mean Cody just dominated you via tank lawn??? You can't take this lying down.
Into beer...
The Lawn Care Nut you have some good videos
The Lawn Care Nut that wasn’t a lawn. Also “Lawns are a waste of valuable growing space” according to Cody (and myself)
Hevy water should protect the box from the sun radiation
other people are trying desperately to make an eternal terrarium. cody makes one by accident that lives for over ten years xDD
JMC UltimateLP You can't really make anything "eternal" (second law of thermodynamics).
Matt Wood it would gain the energy lost from the sun back as heat so it would be relatively eternal.
Neat, how'd you make that terrarium
"I shoveled some cow shit in a barrel then sealed it up"
O...oh...
Landon W. He's probably talking about the heatdeath of the universe
Matt Wood
Bro yeah you can his shrimp box is like super old
Researchers or paleontologist thousands of years from now and possibly extraterrestrial in origin trying to figure out why everything is dead except these curious blocks will be slightly baffled to find an unusual content of heavy water. Maybe we are the brine shrimp in a slightly larger and more complicated block of someones house as well.
At the right time thanks now i will get nightmares. Just kidding
Fantastic experiment, I really need to make one of these. I like the glass blocks as tiny self-contained environments, and a window of them would be fascinating to see. Do it! I wonder how tardigrades would do.
Bruh those mfs can live years like that.
Any chance that we get "Shrimp In a Box Three"?
hopefully cody isn't like valve
Would love to know if they lasted a year.
Sadly he mentioned in another vid that they all died son......
Peej - which one??
@@enderking1525 Half Life joke?
Iodine isn't bad for shrimp, as a matter of fact, shrimp like krill are high in iodine. BTW, you should try these self sustaining tanks with other species. Triops are a good option, so are Killifish and livebearing fish like guppies and platys. Killifish would be interesting, because their eggs can survive out of water. They are one of the few vertebrate animals that have a behavior called diapause, which stops or delays the growth of eggs until conditions are right
Put some radiation source (Uranium Ore or small confined UV light) to induce the mutation and evolution of the species. Eventually, if only bacteria survive, they will be unique in the entire Earth.
Robson Hahn this is an awesome idea somebody needs to do it
up up up
Why it should be Illegal?
We are receiving high doses of Radiation. Actually, the Shrimps in the glass are probably more shielded than in the environment.
Honestly, nobody gives two shits about what you do to common bacteria as long as you don't create bio-weapons. It's the same as breeding yourself a unique breed of roses for your garden
What if it turns out like jurassic park or piranha?? O.o''
"this oughta screw with any researchers that decide to do an isotopic analysis" classic
i wonder how much slower that box will develop due to the heavy water affecting the rate of reactions
pro tip , if you dissolve the things that would do a double displacement separately, they get to concentrations where they don't crash out of solution. Learned that when I was doing work experience at the hydroponics shop.
lmao 'that should really screw with any researchers...' I woke my wife from napping with my guffaw. Well done, Cody.
Hey Cody, i was wondering, how many generations of inbreeding would this box be able to resist? Thanks!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Can you one make a long running live stream of them called life in a box. Two please sell this I will buy one for up to 60 dollars and I am assuming the rest of the internet would to
EcoSphere brand versions of this have been known to run with shrimp populations for 20 years, so I'd suppose 'lots'.
I wonder if they end up genetically identical after a while.
George Charalambous my hypnosis is that a simpler set of genetics is harder to mess up. So a low amount of seed genetics shouldn't effect the diversity of the shrimp. Also the system should not change in a wat that requires them to adapt. So the genetic downfall is more likely to be genetic drift then inbreeding. According to my hypothesis.
The bigger the box and more shrimp eggs would delay a collapse I would think. Ah but how big? Dunno. Twenty gallons maybe?
So close to 1,000,000 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS!
roughly 100 times earths population.
I meant 1 million subs ;-; awwww
sofias. orange and earth has about 25 BILLION peo le
no, there is about 7 billion people on earth
I think you're the dumb one here.... op said 1 million million subscribers not 1 million.
gratz on the 1 million subs cody keep up the great work !
w000t
gratzz
999k
999,898 102 away from 1,000,000
I love how if you follow cody's channel for long enough you start to say "Oh thats where project went" Then it turns out you're remembering a vid from years ago
Honestly the fact that you always seem to have at least a half dozen experiments/activities going on is so fucking cool. Getting to watch beekeeping, mining/refining, vacuum chamber tests, and cool chemical reactions all in the same week is a beautiful thing.
Cody what if you made an ecosystem out of something bigger like a fish tank or something with multiple different species of animals in it?
Earth is a pretty big ecosystem. Make a second earth :)
They already did that; look up the Biosphere 2 haha
Yeah, that didn't go so well :/
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@@chrishuab2364 Which was due to concrete walls slowly absorbing O2 which decreased the concentration in the air.
Otherwise it worked fine, although not perfectly.
A time lapse video on the development of that ecosystem would be really cool.
I think it's the time to show how they are going :)
I have a corked glass soda bottle with freshwater, algae, gravel, and some tiny daphnia-like animals. There used to be a little duckweed in there, but that has decayed after a period of not growing. There also used to be 2 small pond snails, but they never reproduced and later died. The algae growth used to fluctuate wildly, but it has now stabilized to a small "bush" at the bottom. It's pretty neat and shows no signs of stopping.
In the 70's they marketed these to children...I remember getting them and putting them in some water and watched them grow and swim...can not for the life of me remember what they were called, but this sure did bring back memories.
1:30 You mentioned that it would need a shielding against radiation. As far as I know, some smaller creatures can handle lots of radiation. Like the LD50/30 for a human is somewhere around 3 Gray, whereas for a wasp its at about 1000 Gray (according to wikipedia). For smaller creatures like these shrimps it should be even higher, right? Would be cool it you could expose them to some radiation (but be careful).
Those little things are enjoying themselves and then "HOLY SHIT GOOD HAS RETURNED TO SPEAK!!! WE ARE UNWORTHY OF UNDERSTANDING HIS DIVINE WORD!!!"
Like the scene from that men in black movie "all hail cody! Giver of algae!"
"adding some phosphoric acid, i don"t see why it would hurt"
"Just for giggles, let's wash it all down with Deuterium Oxide, because screw Isotope Analyst yay."
"The ecosystem died, must've been the tap water"
he straight added heavy water this is why I love cody
Cody... Just because I understand the words you use, doesn't mean you don't sound like a mad scientist.
travel the world dropping off non-native rocks to confuse future geological and anthropological studies
That’s the most evilest thing I’ve ever heard 😂
That was awesome Cody !!
Marks Shrimp Tanks wow its mark
My question is why he just has a tank of algae lying around
It's Cody, so probably for science or fun :)
Doesn't everyone?
Maybe he had a fish tank that he didn't clean for a long time (hopefully without any fish in it), and then got the idea to add even more algae to it.
The furry channel on a science video. huh, didn't know you had brain cells
could be a algae/nitrate scrubber for his aquarium. there are tons of diy videos on RUclips about them.
I liked this mostly because of the shrimp playing with the oxygen bubble it was sooo cute
*oxygen bubble
I've been patiently awaiting this update and hope to see the new box do as well as the first! I don't know why but this just makes me happy.
I live in Portugal and I will try to do that, but I will get the shrimp, the algae and the water from the sea.
Rodrigo Pereira good luck, buddy! I hope it'll go well.
Upload a video!
Brine shrimp need water Saltier than the sea
any updates on this?
They died
A Person! How do you know?
We take the Shrimp in a Box and push it somewhere else!
Definitely want to see more of this project in the future
This is a pretty cool idea- Cody. I'm sure you could devise a way to replace the atmosphere and dissolved gasses for a really awesome experiment! Replace some of the inert nitrogen with more oxygen. How would a high-oxygen environment (say 30%) affect the brine shrimp over several successive generations?? What morphological changes could be observed? Increased size?? Changes in proportions? ... who knows??? You could simulate various atmospheres - at different periods in Earth history (like the Paleozoic era). That would be very interesting indeed. I'm sure the professors at Utah will all want one...
How else could one go about devising such an experiment?? Your glass box is unique in this way. Once you set the basic atmospheric perimeters - that's it! It will last seemingly forever. I can't think of an easier way to conduct such a long-term "maintenance-free" experiment. What would happen in 20 years time if the culture is sustained? ...or 50 years?? Can you even imagine? Then crack 'em open and take a look at the biology.
Anyway thanks for the upload, look forward to seeing more!
"If there is too many of them, they will end up killing each other."
Wow sibling relationships at there finest.
different coloured algae red blue orange would be cool, or an algae war red against blue and so on :)
Do you think the shrimps in the glass will evolve differently if you leave them long enough?
when cows fly if by long enough you mean millions of years, then yes probably :p
Actually microevolution is a thing
Well I'm not a scientist :p or biologist
You don't have to be a professional to make sure you know what you're talking about before answering a question, almost all of this can be found somewhere on wikipedia
Evolution does not always take millions of years. There are swallow populations for instance that live close to major highways who have slightly shorter wings than their normal counterparts because having shorter wings makes them more maneuverable and enables them to evade cars better.
There are also rattle snake populations who have lost their ability to rattle since humans would kill them so much and one way to find them was to get them to rattle by pissing them off with noise so you could hear where they are. The ones with deformed rattles would survive more often because they didn't get killed by humans.
Your first to trim box experiment changed my life. I now have a deep obsession with self sustaining ecosystems
I love the concept of fucking with researchers years from now who may not have all the information you've given us
Space shrimp?! When pigs fly! And plants growing off of crap
What if we're life in a box created by some stupid smart creature like Cody?
We would have been extinct a million years ago
That question birthed religeon.
Flat Earth! Told you it was trur, morons.
4:40 It's like baking a cake and playing god at the same time :o
I hope we can see an update on these soon! I know a lot of your situation has probably changed over the years but I'm still excited to see the box!
I had a little glass orb of shrimps in my bathroom when I was a kid. It was a self contained ecosystem. Super cool!
only about 300 subs left till 1,000,000
Oh snap he's at 999,717 almost at that mill
Alright, wacky idea time: After long periods of adaptation to each box, could you start a selective breeding process with adults from each box and see if you can breed a super-shrimp of some sort? I'm talking like, subject one box to "enhanced gravity" via centripetal forces, subject another box to minimal light energy, subject another box to sustained water currents, subject another box to low temperatures, subject another box to high temperatures, etc. Do all of these things until each box's shrimp have adapted to thrive in each condition, THEN begin selective breeding to try to get offspring with multiple adaptations. It would take years, and each condition would probably have to be gradually increased over time until the shrimp are able to survive and thrive in each extreme condition.
This video inspired me and now I have to self sufficient ecosystems of my own in my window. Please do more!
My elementary school had like a hallway of these glass boxes. It would be awesome if they were all full of brine shrimp like that one
Could you please give us an update video?
Where's the update?
I’m waiting to!
They died
Did they actually die? Is there a video about them?
@@DrPotassium Yeah bro
I’m still waiting on part 2 of this
The grass probably started from the cow chips.
From when they ate the grass and some seeds didn't get digested.
Since it is concealed the water in it couldn't escape.
Basically creating an atmosphere like area that causes condensation and then precipitation.
The container allows enough light in to allow photosynthesis.
Darn great experiment.
i have to admit i'm really happy to see these vids, i thought about this when i was a kid seeing these glass boxes... so cool
Gonna give you something so you know what's on my mind.
A gift real special, so take off the top.
Take a look inside it's my shrimp in a box!
Please, please make more ecospheres it's my hobby and no one else does it I'd like your ideas on the different way to set them up.
Hey Cody, the algae starter you had, was that algae growing in salt water, or was it freshwater algae?
I think he thought about it. It would be funny to see how the ecosystem would thrive without algae though.
considering how much he knows that'll be a hilarious oversight.
Maybe the algae can adapt or some spices in there can live in both salt water and freshwater
It simply wouldn't work at all without the algae. The algae is what provides the conversion from co2 to o2 for the shrimp.
+Spencer P
The shrimp were from the salt lake, not the algae.
Might be fun to install crossed polarizing filters around the block. Then it would appear dark, with glowing shrimp!
love this idea of a whole ecosystem in glass blocks!
Cody, a question. Begining at around 12:12 the projection of your laser on your wall (right half the of the video) looks like a rolling image of some sort (you can see blobs and patches projected and moving to the right). I can not understand how that got projected. Any idea?
the radiometer was rotating
Ah, I see. Thanks! Got confused. :D
That's even more confusing Cody...
That or I'm too damn dumb to understand.
If the radiometer was rotating COUNTER-clockwise, why was the chamber rotating clockwise?
@@theCodyReeder Dear Cody I have a question too. I wont ask strictly why did you end this video with such a great experiment for human race... I mean... If I understand nature right - we should just add a bit of copper coil and neodymium magnet thingy to make a solar engine... Can you contact me please - I wont be annoying - just few questions. Please man - Dnt wanna ask anything else here. Ty! Looking forward to hearing from you. From Russia with love!
update?
why not make 2 different shrimp cubes and see if you can steer an evolutionary change in one of the colonies by modifying its environment.
I have never gotten this much enjoyment out of one of your videos, this one is strangely entertaining and inspiring, as of about 3 minutes ago, I just purchased some brine shrimp online and I have found all the ingredients necessary to make my own self sustaining eco-system, there will be a video of this on my channel within about 2 or 3 weeks (depending on how long it takes the brine shrimp to arrive!)
9:32 That made me laugh so much, I'm glad I'm not the only one engaged in leaving mysterious for future researchers.
13:37 minutes long
1337 !
nice catch
Shreyas rao
dammit I was going to comment that XD
leet
leet boiis
Have you guys noticed that the video length is 13:37, or LEET?
IT'S MY SHRIMP IN A BOX!
Great video, i love these self-sustaining terrarium things.
wish we would learn things that you do in videos in school because I actually like this
Can we get an update on them
Can you make an update video
When will you upload #3?
It has been another year, I am looking forward for the shrimp in a bow THREE so much.
Mate we're gonna need more of these
Wheres pt 3
It's been 12 months since you made this block. How are the shrimpies holding up? Did they take?
24 issshhh now
Cody this is gonna sound weird but you should try to extract potassium from a banana.
yeah I should!
11:44 - Huh! So those illustrations of Sea Monkeys playing with little beach balls were accurate after all!
If you sold these "Shrimp in a Box" I think I would buy one they as very cool.
Hey girl I got somethin' real important to give you
So just sit down and listen
Girl you know we've been together such a long long time (such a long time)
And now I'm ready to lay it on the line
(Wooow) You know it's Christmas and my heart is open wide
Gonna give you something so you know what's on my mind
A gift real special, so take off the top
Take a look inside -- it's my shrimp in a box
Not gonna get you a jelly fish
That sort of gift don't mean anything
Not gonna get you a great white shark
Girl ya gotta know you're my shining star
Not gonna get you a Buch of gills
A girl like you needs somethin' reel (get it)
Please make an update.....
UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!
really like your home improvement with a scientific twist videos.
Can't wait to see the update, I have some leftover glass blocks just like yours, I have to try this
is there an update video to this?
make another update video already lol
hey cody,
ive always thought the sealed self sustaining system was an awesome idea. remember when the "bioshere" project went into effect?
anyway, i have a Q: would a sealed system, such as your shrimp box or grass container, gain mass, (however small) due to conversion of sunlight into sugars/energy => mass??
would the container fill up eventually?
anyway, hope your well. :-D
No the sugars have to be made from pre-existing particles, sunlight is just an energy source to allow it to happen
Literally acting as God here, making a recipe for life adding pinch of different ingredients until the conditions are just right. Love it.
Cody, you're like the modern day Mr. Wizard! Keep up the good work.
Update please :D
anybody know where i can find one of those boxes?
Google "glass blocks". Tons of places have them.
Hoby stores have them with holes drilled already, Hardware stores have them, tend to be in the shower sections as they get used in shower stub walls and such to let light in.
Radiation shield? If they don't freeze first
the water would not freeze because energy is distributed on earth through contact if there isn't anything in space nothing touches the glass container meaning any energy that is produced by the container in the form of heat would just build up until the container is too hot to support life or until it breaks
but more than enough would build up to overheat the glass
Finally. I couldn't wait to see part 2 I keep shrimp myself but not brine
please make more of these they are so interesting and unique, i hope to someday see that window filled with them