*To Answer Questions:* Water: Water inside will eventually evaporate (but can't leave the container) and turn into water vapor, this vapor will then hit the cold glass and condense forming droplets. The water droplets will then move down the glass and back into the soil. Centipedes: There is a population of them and they're breeding. The reason they don't "kill all the isopods" is because the jar can only support a small population of centipedes. They are cannibals and will eat each other if too many are born. Oxygen: Plants and Algae create Oxygen from Carbon Dioxide. Carbon Dioxide is created by animals and bacteria from oxygen. Where do nutrients come from?: The soil. How do I make this?: I have multiple videos on my channel showing the creation process of different ecosystems.
the centipede dynamics are highly interesting. is there any work on cannibalism as an auto-regulation strategy for isolated carnivorous animals? it seems to be two negative feedback loops (cannibalism and isopod population decrease) that keeps them in the right balance. surface area may also play a role. obviously the whole system is more complex, but maybe this jar could be accurately modeled.
**200 years later** (Bad timeline I know): “Today marks the historic launch of Centipede-13, which is hoped to be able to escape the confines of our world to explore beyond!” *Cute spaceship launches and hits glass* “Unfortunately, it seems that once again, the mysterious barrier prevents us from leaving the world.
Darin Hardie *250 years later* “everybody, we have penetrated the invisible layer of air that has kept us imprisoned for all these years. Apparently, outside is a got damn wasteland with a crap ton of radiation so we’re gonna seal it back up.”
"The [baby isopods] do seem to venture underground though, likely using tunnels left behind by earthworms many years ago." holy shit this world has lore
"One day was I wandered around a strange feeling struck me, franticaly looking around I saw the source of my unease. From beyond the Crystal walls of our reality "He" was gazing upon me, a being with no equal such that I have no words that can properly describe "His" figure, so big and ancient "He" just stood there before vanishing, back into the dark reaches beyond our reality, a place that since them fulled many dreams of my about it's Mysteries, but also many nightmares about it's hidden dangers. Now here I ponder the day our people will be able to reach that place beyond our reality. I wonder, will that day be a blessing...or a curse?" - Records of the Great Sage Isopod.
I really don't where this came from, after Watching the video I Just though "How these little guys see all of this happening around them?" When I noticed I had already wrote it.
the year is 3000, life on earth has all but disappeared, when quietly, somewhere deep and undisturbed, a glass jar falls from a shelf and shatters, from there... things will slowly return
I don’t think people understand how magnificent this is. This is literally a world inside of a glass jar. As we look into our universe and the world is all we know, this is all the species in the jar know, and outside is their universe. Lit asf mate
@@gcjas1998 Haha imagine Isopods having their own versions scientists and other professions, Even Michio Kaku said in his book Hyperspace, he thought like that when he was a kid and looked into the lake, "The Einsteins of fishes must wonder what the outer world is like."
I am old now, maybe not so long to live. I hope this little ecosphere carries on after I don't. I find that comforting. I don't know why, but I have tears in my eyes.
I wish you the best of health, and years of life to come! I also feel something for the terrarium. I feel, in a way, like I am looking through the eyes of God at a young earth, billions of years ago.
_”...but could the jar, and the elements therein that make up our delicately balanced ecosystem, have really been the machinations of supremely intelligent beings laid out for us as little as 12 years ago?_ *_Ancient-Terrarium Theorists... say yes...”_*
I love closed terrariums, they seem wildly underrated compared to open terrariums. I have one I made out of a 5 gallon wine glass jar, the larger opening allowed me to get creative with the decor. I look at that thing every single day and try to see what changed or is in the process of changing. I've seen whole life cycles come and go. It's extremely fascinating. Had it for about 4 years now
I would love to see that! Im using a 5 or 6 gallon jug as well. Im trying to make a present for my son when hes born. Im doing a water layer with jungle val and 2 snail species on the bottom. Theyve been stable for a few months now so im wanting to get started on the soil layer which will be suspended above. Id love to either see a video or even just hear from you what sorts of life you have inside and roughly how hot/cold and dry/humid it is etc. 4 years is very impressive!
You know that moment in good sci-fi, when it subverts your expectations and lets you understand something from a different perspective? Strangely, that's how I felt watching this. Mind, blown. Life survives for over a decade, neglected in a sealed jar.
In Chaos Theory, the disorder eventually creates an order. This whatever you start with evolves, dies out, or flourishes throughout the system, achieving a balance.
In grade 4 we made terrariums from plastic soft drink (soda) bottles, mine was / is a 7up bottle. We put a variety of plants brought to school by other students. I'm 42 now and mine is still thriving although I think it was the ivy that took over long ago. It has small holes in the base and sits on a terracotta saucer which I give water occasionally. Goes to show the resilience of plastic from the 80s
I did that but mines bottom half was a marine environment which had snails and the top half has worms and I had it for like a year unfortunately the snails started dying and the worms too and there was no eggs so my dad just dumped it out outside
People keep asking about the water but closed terrariums don't need to be watered more than once. The water inside will eventually evaporate (but can't leave the container) and turn into water vapor, this vapor will then hit the cold glass and condense forming droplets. The water droplets will then move down the glass and back into the soil. This is basic water cycle stuff. As for the centipede questions which I keep seeing posted here in the video he/she said CENTIPEDES! There is more than 1 centipede. There was even 2 shown in the video. They're breeding in there and I saw on another comment that Jartopia said they even control their own numbers though cannibalism. Hope this clears up some of the questions you guys are asking. EDIT: You people don't even know plants produce oxygen? Or that plants slowly release water through transpiration? Or that soil has nutrients in it? Did most of you guys even go to school??? The amount of dumb questions I am getting on this comment is insane
@Chris D'oulmeth Diminishing return is more about the point that you get less productivity if you overuse a factor. I guess what you mean is the Liebig law of the minimum, which state that you can not increase the productivity above the lowest factor. But in the case the Terrarium isn´t sealed to 100%, i think the humidity in the glass balancing it self out with the humidity of the room. Even if the lamp heats the glass and there for would made it drier, it would it only dried up to a certain point. Given the variables dosn´t change that much, but hey this system works for 12 years!
possible, since insect breeding cycles are fast, there's a chance they lost some of the defenses for non-centipede predators in favour for anti-centipede defenses
@@tw1zt84 No inbreeding avoidance has ever been discovered in insects, as far as I'm aware. If anything, they show kin preference. So the higher inbreeding coefficients in this environment keeps the mutation loads down and means that over the course of generations, they become extremely resilient thanks to advantageous recessive phenotypes being expressed. Them being inbred would be nothing but beneficial in this environment.
This is SO cool. I didn't realize you could create self-supporting enclosed ecosystems so easily! Absolutely fascinating. It looks like an empty big bottle of wine or cheap liquor.
I don’t agree the “for some reason” part. It is interesting because it is an entire ecosystem within a small glass container! It has been alive for more than a decade. It’s fascinating to wonder what is inside it and what kind of life it has and what kind of changes it has gone through throughout the years. There is no questioning why this is fascinating stuff. It just is, lol.
Your channel inspired me to make one of these myself. Stupidly, I left the jar too close to the window and fried the isopods in the sun. Instead of starting over, I kept the jar closed for another week. I thought essentially everything was dead but realized earwigs and millipedes managed to survive, and now I’m seeing white eggs and very tiny mites and other creatures. Thank you for this great channel. I originally started my jar for my kids, but I’m the one who can’t stop staring at it every day.
You accidentally replicated the atmospheric conditions of the astroid strike that led to the dino extinction. All large creatures died off and the ones that could borrow survived thus proving the astroid theory correct. Very cool!
Inspired by this video, I made my own terrarium in a jar and it's been closed for about a year. It has a thriving springtail and millipede population, and a couple of roly-polies. When it first staryed out I saw a bunch of those small transparent worms, but I haven't seen any in a while. I put some weeds in at the beginning and it now looks like a mini forest in there. I originally only put one millipede in but I think it laid eggs and there are easily about 20. Really fun thing to do with kids especially!
@@S3V1LLS I took a big jar, put a few rocks in the bottom, then put in dirt from the garden and then planted weeds from the garden on top. I then arranged some sticks to make it look more interesting and closed it. That's all there is to it! Just make sure it stays out of direct sunlight so it doesn't overheat.
@@S3V1LLS You should. The first time I tried the weeds died within a week or two, and so I added more that eventually did great. Remember to add some water too (but not too much!). It's all about experimentation and finding the right balance.
@@RichyStix cool idea for a sci fi story: people in the far future find the edge of the universe, only to discover the truth; we’re beings living in a small terrarium much like the one in this video, being watched by higher beings who created our whole world for their own entertainment.
Wow this brings back memories. We made one of these in science class in 5th grade (about 1994) and I had mine sealed up until the age of 33 years old just a few years ago and the glass cracked and it busted. It was absolutely thriving with life before that happened as it was kept in a garage closet. I never could find myself the ability to throw it away until it fell off the damn shelf that collapsed. I had full intentions on keeping this until the day I died. And before you ask , no, it surprisingly did not stink. Just smelled like musty wet soil.
@@quetzalcoatl9993 i mean.. it is, but i know what you mean. But clearly nature is amazing since it does what was shown in the video, but scale it up to the earth size and billions of organisms
Im extremely curious how differently the species inside the jar would evolve from their cousins if they were able to be isolated like this for millions of years.
most likely, the species out in the world would be the ones that change. the ones inside this jar shouldn't have any reason to change at all. pretty amazing
@@arnoygayen1984 because it's rather fragile and very little diversity there's a high chance that if there were a mutation that made one animal much more successful it would kill another species entirely. Ecosystems do fails a lot of the time and more diversity helps fill in the gaps. Like let's say if the centipedes ended up accidentally eating themselves, They die then the isopod population grows out of control and they could drive the plant life to extinction which would then possibly kill off the isopods. Sometimes closed systems like this fail it's part of the challenge in designing them to last. I've seen my fair share of failures but some of them could last a very long time
@@boringbilal both would change, a jar is an extremely specific ecosystem and while the isopods are doing good, they haven't evolved to thrive in those conditions. Most likely a few different species of isopod would evolve adapting to eat different plants, but would be very small and would be unlikely that a lot of species could evolve in such a small ecosystem. The smaller organisms would enjoy faster adaption because of larger population sizes, I wouldn't be suprised if the springtails outcompeted the isopods and the centipedes and became the dominant organism.
This is extremely deep. Think about it. Isn't earth a jar too? When we explore the infinite universe, will we ever really notice we were always trapped in a self-contained environment that kept us alive? Earth is our trap inside our universe, yet it is also our paradise. The same way those isopods might see the jar and the world some day, we might see the world and the universe. And what if the universe is yet another jar inside of another even greater cosmos? We shall never know, for discovering the mysteries of existence itselt would take more than a thousand lifespans, and even that, is nothing compared to the age of time
Just started a half gallon mason jar terrarium! Has 3 centipedes, 3 slugs, countless pill bugs and wood louses, 1 jumping spider, many springtails and more! I sure hope it thrives like yours!!!! Edit: Just found a millipede finally! Second edit: I have upgraded to a 3 gallon tank after most of the original inhabitants died do to the slugs absolutely decimating the plants cutting off their source of oxygen! Only the 3 millipedes, the 3 earthworms, 1 of the centipedes, and a single pill bug lived… But they are now thriving in their new tank!
That would be fascinating, Imagine the isopods evolving over the course of millions of years, and then just ending up with another version of humans, only to discover mankind predicted it all along
@@nowanimportant8887 but there’s always that one group of centipedes that believe it’s all a hologram and that the Rollie pollies are just lying to them
It's like we have mini eras in this lol. The era of isopods, the era of centipedes, the era of springtails, the era of algae, the era of hairy bittercress, etc. The organisms inside the jar must have gone some gene modifications also. The natural selection. Think about the strong isopod survivors everytime the centipedes predate a lot of them, the next generation of isopods would be stronger and would be able to recover from their little population. The gene pool is also constantly changing too because of these little conditions changing.
Guy: "Shit the electrics cut off..." Life in the bottle: "100 seconds ago when your great great grandfather was alive... the great schism came and darkened the realm... horrors lurked 200 centipede feet away from our home but yet we prevailed!"
You can also look at it another way - Every other species is currently trapped on this tiny ball of rock with almost 8 billion pretty troublesome apex-predators.
Best thread ever...hahaha!. The isopods and centipedes are really part of a secret society both working together to control all of the other organisms and the elections are nothing more than a ruse to give the other organisms the illusion of choice.
@@UhtredOfBamburgh Then the brave isopodes used ak47s to kill all centipedes and took over the means of production; one week later, they were all starving.
@@bioemiliano Don't you think AKs are a bit large for the jar? Why, even a single one may have trouble fitting inside. Its hard to get supplies past the glass curtain
@@UhtredOfBamburgh I think quite a few could fit in there. I’d say about 5 Source: have won one of those “how many jelly beans are in the jar” contests and got a Flat Stanley Book.
This is so awesome, i feel like a nerd for saying that but man now i wanna make one. The fact that you have trakced and monitored the activity and have seen patterns in the flucuations is so interesting
Well due to their limited intelligence they'd hardly take notice of our existence but if they were smart enough to recognise us; It would be like a god to a caveman.
"Do you think there are other worlds outside this jar?" "The outside is barren, no algae grows, no isopods roam. It's just a wasteland, nothing but dust and wood. Venturing out is pure suicide there's no other place we can call home." "Well we can try right?"
Imagine the creatures in this glass thinking this jar is the whole universe. “I can’t see outside this glass, there must be nothing there. This is the whole of existence.”
This is really cool, I didn't want a aquarium due to management issues so this kind of thing adapted to my needs is perfect. Thank you for a great video as well, no annoying bass drops and screeching
I can imagine the world ending one day. Life dying out. But somewhere. There is a jar like this. Left undisturbed on an abandoned rotting homes shelf. Eventually that shelf would break, the jar falling with it. Maybe the plants an animals would spread out again, give life anew. Or maybe it would die out, with hope being put into another jar.
every hour to us was like 100 years from the sea monkey..they (LISA and Bart )came back a few days later and it was thousands of years for the sea monkeys and then they had advanced technology like Laser weapons and nuclear weapons
I wonder how unstable the ecosystem was when it started. Was there a time when it seemed like it wouldn't survive before it made a comeback and reached a sustainable equilibrium?
@@lizzzyz there was never a time when youtube comments were mostly well thought out and reasoned. It used to be more hostile and more name-calling, now it's more memey and pandering for likes. But always a shitshow
This is one of the most beautiful videos I've seen. It remembers me of the video "this ciliate is about to die" from journey to the microcosmos. The choice of music is amazing, the images are amazing. Looking forward for more of your content (-:
Honestly this just makes me think of earth just on an immensely simplified scale, it's such a delicate balance, with each piece playing its part in the cycle to maintain the ecosystem. What are humans' roles originally I wonder.
Humans are the apex predators of apex predators. Before that, we were simple omnivores, like the other Apes. Filling the role of both predator and herbivore. Apes are quite versatile in the eco system.
The most recent variety of humans got rid of their closest cousins by breeding out or killing them off...and who really knows what little experiments scientists are getting on with in sealed laboratories with the Human Genome, evolution in nature progresses through mutation, but we seem to have a problem with letting mutated humans go through their lives without interference and tend to try to get rid of anything that isn't "normal" so it will be interesting to see how the next Evolutionary step takes off in regards to our species. Well, if we don't kill ourselves off first, that is... for a supposedly intelligent species, we are capable of some really stupid shit sadly.
It really would be interesting to compare the genes of the organisms inside the jar to specimens on the outside. If you ever have to or decide to open the jar, you really should consider this. A university's biology department would probably be interested in this.
In a million years the glass would probably be broken. But dont be dissapointed! Probs the life inside the jar would eventually manage to survive in the form of spores and their children :D
I fed my fish brine shrimp as a child, and my older brother asked me to hatch him some to keep (seamonkeys). We set up a 3 gallon tank with a small pinch of eggs. I told him not to expect much since they would starve after a day or two. A bit over a decade later we found the tank still occupied. He had left it up against a barn when he moved away so it got enough rain water to prevent drying out but not so much it flooded them all out. The shrimp had a great life, as far as shrimp-life goes, eating the algae that grew on the surface and the sides of the tank. -- I'm not sure how they continued to survive as the water desalinated over the years, but they didn't seem to mind, and their eggs continued to hatch.
I get tadpole shrimp when it floods a corner of my yard in the summer rains. They're a dusty red with no eyes, long whiskers and a bright blue stripe on their backs, they get as long as your thumb at times. No idea where they came from as we're the first owners of the house, and it's all desert out here. Maybe they just have eggs in the soil.
Imagine the human population disappearing in a blink of an eye and all that's left are the stuff we left behind. Somewhere, in someone's house is this ecosystem, and it will continue to thrive without us there.
Organism 5: purposterous twas a quaint dream and ye shall be rediculed for thy transgressions on modern science you cephalopod. Clearly we spontaneously were put on earth by a chain reaction starting with the anomaly of nothingness.
It would be cool if the world ended and ll life on earth ended but somehow this jar still survived but broke open and millions of years later the earth is populated with the wildly different and diverse ancestors of this single jar.
I could imagine the world ends and somewhere in someone’s basement this small jar of life still thrives like nothings happening, like it’s in its own universe.
If you could make it orbit the sun at the right distance so that it gets a constant amount of sunlight, would it keep thriving? That would be a cool experiment
BEAUTIFUL! ❤️ just breathtaking. Crazy how you can see the nematodes with no problem. 12 years old. Wow that’s awesome! I had one but mama dukes made me get rid of it. Had to move. 🤷🏼♂️ I am going to build a huge aquarium and terrarium too! 🙌🏼❤️
@@groeleorg Oh yeah totally, I didn't mean to underscale his skills in knowing what and how to put in any way, just that this is the perfect small scale display of our planet and how it is balanced and how it works. This is indeed quite the masterpiece of knowledge and harmony.
This little jar contains a preserved ecosystem that is separated from the outside world. These plants and animals are following their own unique evolutionary path. As more decades pass, these bugs can look noticeably different from bugs outside.
While minor differences may arise, the jar is closed off to the world, it’s unlikely any major event would happen that doesn’t the involve the entire ecosystem collapsing. Evolutionary pressure here seems to be really low.
You would need evolutionary pressure to force a change, and you would need like 100,000 years. Also as groups remain cohesive genetic diversity decreases, not increases, so as time passes the groups ability to survive a selection pressure decreases.
What a peaceful and wholesome exististance in that jar. An entire world with a tight balanced food chain and rain cycle. Sometimes it's the small things that show how simplicity can be beautiful. Great video!
Having centipede in it will never make it peaceful at all. They are beasts. I have a terrarium(30x20) with Porcellio scaber "Red Salmiak"(my own selection they look like how red salmiak would look, red base with black rectangles) Tere are 300+ of them it's insane. Havin predators in there would be sad. Cenipedes live for several years(5-6y).
100 years from now. An astronaut isopod, 'astropod' if you will, gazes at his home from space. "Wait...so it's all jar?" He says to his co-pilot, who is indeed not an astropod. After the great famine in the seventh age, the centipedes and isopods made a pact. Their peace time efforts paved the way for such prosperities as a space force. This was an astropede. Raising his space pistol, the centipede relents, "Always was..." and thus the pact was broken.
@@LEllis-ui3lx shut up bugs lit (not saying i dont play god and cause a mass extinction with my bug spray from time to time but if they didnt exist i wouldnt have the joy of doing so)
Ikr centipedes got hunted to extinction where i live from an invasive ant species and isopod are usually just cave dwellers under animal water troffs and loose boards with damp soil here i literally didnt even know they were like insect cattle because when ever i see them theyre just living in mud so to see them like genuinely grazing and getting hunted is so fricken cool (though regardless of where they live and if theyre grazing or not like i said in my other reply i gonna magnifine glass that ass for being a lesser being then me and no im not insane i swear dont send someone to check up on me)
Just found this video/your channel. And it is sooooooo awesome! Keep it going! So fascinating. Really bring me back to being a kid (not to say that your videos/ecosystems are childish by any means). Really quite interesting!! Love it
@@chrishushak3562 There was a girl in my Highschool who had 2 kids before she graduated... different fathers, the fathers were brothers. Her name was Sophie von Greiffenberg. They were first cousins and half brothers.
*To Answer Questions:*
Water: Water inside will eventually evaporate (but can't leave the container) and turn into water vapor, this vapor will then hit the cold glass and condense forming droplets. The water droplets will then move down the glass and back into the soil.
Centipedes: There is a population of them and they're breeding. The reason they don't "kill all the isopods" is because the jar can only support a small population of centipedes. They are cannibals and will eat each other if too many are born.
Oxygen: Plants and Algae create Oxygen from Carbon Dioxide. Carbon Dioxide is created by animals and bacteria from oxygen.
Where do nutrients come from?: The soil.
How do I make this?: I have multiple videos on my channel showing the creation process of different ecosystems.
I wonder if this is how our existence is viewed.
Fascinating. Thanks for the insight!
I was wondering about the oxygen, thanks
This is really cool!
the centipede dynamics are highly interesting. is there any work on cannibalism as an auto-regulation strategy for isolated carnivorous animals? it seems to be two negative feedback loops (cannibalism and isopod population decrease) that keeps them in the right balance. surface area may also play a role. obviously the whole system is more complex, but maybe this jar could be accurately modeled.
"You ever wonder what's outside this jar?"
"That's dangerous thinking Tom."
"2x2=5 Tom."
They can actually gaze into the heavens (outside the jar) if they want, they just can't go there, nor can they go beyond there...
@@Solesteam that's us viewing the sky and universe
@@shrinjayghosh4633 the word heavens (with the s) can refer to the sky and space and not literal heaven (that place isn't followed by an s).
straight pixar movie potential
112 years later: The isopods have entered the industrial age
**200 years later** (Bad timeline I know):
“Today marks the historic launch of Centipede-13, which is hoped to be able to escape the confines of our world to explore beyond!”
*Cute spaceship launches and hits glass*
“Unfortunately, it seems that once again, the mysterious barrier prevents us from leaving the world.
@@darinhardie8514 lmao
@@darinhardie8514 Pixar should make a movie on this xD
@@idro3414 Presenting, a Bug's Life 2: Out of This World!
Darin Hardie *250 years later* “everybody, we have penetrated the invisible layer of air that has kept us imprisoned for all these years. Apparently, outside is a got damn wasteland with a crap ton of radiation so we’re gonna seal it back up.”
"The [baby isopods] do seem to venture underground though, likely using tunnels left behind by earthworms many years ago." holy shit this world has lore
The once mighty earth worms...
"What is it Isopod, Dragons?!"
No like for real though... this whole thing could inspire a bomb epic fantasy story. A thriving and isolated terrarium is physical worldbuilding.
Walk without rhythm and you wont attract the worm.
"Isopod, do we have wormsign?"
@@adamwilson1167 We have wormsign the like of which even the centipede has never seen.
"One day was I wandered around a strange feeling struck me, franticaly looking around I saw the source of my unease. From beyond the Crystal walls of our reality "He" was gazing upon me, a being with no equal such that I have no words that can properly describe "His" figure, so big and ancient "He" just stood there before vanishing, back into the dark reaches beyond our reality, a place that since them fulled many dreams of my about it's Mysteries, but also many nightmares about it's hidden dangers.
Now here I ponder the day our people will be able to reach that place beyond our reality. I wonder, will that day be a blessing...or a curse?" - Records of the Great Sage Isopod.
Hahahaaaaaaa brilliant comment mr Branco
beautiful poetry. Love this
If the isopod speaking such truth was of some sort of 'weird Arby's guy'
I really don't where this came from, after Watching the video I Just though "How these little guys see all of this happening around them?" When I noticed I had already wrote it.
Belo storytelling. Me peguei pensando algo semelhante depois do video... hahahaha
the year is 3000, life on earth has all but disappeared, when quietly, somewhere deep and undisturbed, a glass jar falls from a shelf and shatters, from there... things will slowly return
A buck up plan... I like it!
Hooo... this actually could be a good start of a story
Nah... Without the bulb, they gonna die in weeks.
@@onderatar2816 True but then again there is life deep within the earth where there is no light.
@@obi-wan-cannoli just let us believe
Imagine the world is post apocalyptic like fallout and you find something like this preserved in a house.
i can imagine it being a unique little item in games or something
not worth many caps
@@andrewlopez6225 a certain collector of odd paraphernalia will give you 1.5k caps for it
At first I was like “wait wouldn’t they suffocate if it’s sealed off?” But then I remembered the crap ton of algae in there
Like, a real life G.E.C.K?
I don’t think people understand how magnificent this is.
This is literally a world inside of a glass jar. As we look into our universe and the world is all we know, this is all the species in the jar know, and outside is their universe.
Lit asf mate
I see that u kno da wae
Ok
We could be living inside our own universe sized jar as well, and we wouldn't know it. Just like the cute little isopods.
DeputyMuffinTop hahaha bro hahah
@@gcjas1998 Haha imagine Isopods having their own versions scientists and other professions, Even Michio Kaku said in his book Hyperspace, he thought like that when he was a kid and looked into the lake, "The Einsteins of fishes must wonder what the outer world is like."
I am old now, maybe not so long to live. I hope this little ecosphere carries on after I don't. I find that comforting. I don't know why, but I have tears in my eyes.
I wish you the best of health, and years of life to come!
I also feel something for the terrarium. I feel, in a way, like I am looking through the eyes of God at a young earth, billions of years ago.
Don't worry I'm young, and I plan to do this for 100s of years, even after I die* hopefully someone else will continue it
Isopod 1: They're watching us you know.
Isopod 2: Seriously? You're gonna start that crazy shit again?
Isopod History Channel Guy:
_Humans._
@@thehavoccompany-a3 lol
True.
_”...but could the jar, and the elements therein that make up our delicately balanced ecosystem, have really been the machinations of supremely intelligent beings laid out for us as little as 12 years ago?_
*_Ancient-Terrarium Theorists... say yes...”_*
@@williamwebb580 *ancient-terrariums*
I love closed terrariums, they seem wildly underrated compared to open terrariums. I have one I made out of a 5 gallon wine glass jar, the larger opening allowed me to get creative with the decor. I look at that thing every single day and try to see what changed or is in the process of changing. I've seen whole life cycles come and go. It's extremely fascinating. Had it for about 4 years now
I would love to see that! Im using a 5 or 6 gallon jug as well. Im trying to make a present for my son when hes born. Im doing a water layer with jungle val and 2 snail species on the bottom. Theyve been stable for a few months now so im wanting to get started on the soil layer which will be suspended above. Id love to either see a video or even just hear from you what sorts of life you have inside and roughly how hot/cold and dry/humid it is etc. 4 years is very impressive!
@@alexcrowder1673 Wow! That sounds amazing lol, I’m only 17 so when I’m responsible enough I think I’ll fill a jar with pond water as a beginner.
haha terraria
@@TastyyOnTH-cam great video game. haha
@@chelseacomps829 bro how it survives without water though??
Imagine if this passed on to the next generation until it reaches 100+ years like a bonsai trees. Nice video!
the apocalypse will come one day and this will be the only life left on earth lmao
@@CHLOCHLOLP well i mean if there will be sun...................than maybe
Evolution would happen in that terrarium
Imagine elephant size rollie pollies lol
@@j9392 imagine bug sized elephants in there. or even amobia sized elephants.
This gave me a whole new perspective of our world. I never really thought about it until watching this. Awesome work!
Isopod: “Bro I swear we’re living in a jar”
Other Isopod: “bro quit it with the conspiracy theories”.
Holy shit are we in a jar
The centipede is working for THEM.
@@IoIo-en3bt the Jar matrix
The jar is flat.
@@travis1043 haha, best
You know that moment in good sci-fi, when it subverts your expectations and lets you understand something from a different perspective? Strangely, that's how I felt watching this. Mind, blown. Life survives for over a decade, neglected in a sealed jar.
Not neglected. The Sun is taking good care of her children.
They are far from neglected. That jar was carefully curated to ensure persistence. There is no chance in that jar.
Well, there is a strong source of light which supplies the energy to make this possible.
In the dark they all would die in a few weeks.
@@udishomer5852 to be fair the bittercress might have some seeds in dormancy
The jar is no different than life on planet earth
The fact that its become a fully self sustaining environment is really interesting
In Chaos Theory, the disorder eventually creates an order. This whatever you start with evolves, dies out, or flourishes throughout the system, achieving a balance.
@@1earflapping keep it all the way real you only know about chaos theory because of Jurassic Park!
@@MarshallApplewhite143 No, I read the book by James Gleick. All I remember from the movie is Laura Dern and the velociraptors.
@@1earflapping Nice!
It is sustained by light and heat that comes from outside the jar. If you put the jar in the dark or freezing temperatures everything would die.
In grade 4 we made terrariums from plastic soft drink (soda) bottles, mine was / is a 7up bottle. We put a variety of plants brought to school by other students. I'm 42 now and mine is still thriving although I think it was the ivy that took over long ago. It has small holes in the base and sits on a terracotta saucer which I give water occasionally. Goes to show the resilience of plastic from the 80s
I did that but mines bottom half was a marine environment which had snails and the top half has worms and I had it for like a year unfortunately the snails started dying and the worms too and there was no eggs so my dad just dumped it out outside
You have a plastic soda bottle terrarium that you kept since the 80s?? Jesus!
Record it please
Pics or it didn’t happen
@@DisobeyZOG how do I post pictures? Profile pic?
People keep asking about the water but closed terrariums don't need to be watered more than once. The water inside will eventually evaporate (but can't leave the container) and turn into water vapor, this vapor will then hit the cold glass and condense forming droplets. The water droplets will then move down the glass and back into the soil. This is basic water cycle stuff.
As for the centipede questions which I keep seeing posted here in the video he/she said CENTIPEDES! There is more than 1 centipede. There was even 2 shown in the video. They're breeding in there and I saw on another comment that Jartopia said they even control their own numbers though cannibalism.
Hope this clears up some of the questions you guys are asking.
EDIT: You people don't even know plants produce oxygen? Or that plants slowly release water through transpiration? Or that soil has nutrients in it? Did most of you guys even go to school??? The amount of dumb questions I am getting on this comment is insane
What about oxygen circulation
A small look at our planet, cannibalism will happen!
@@jhostintola3092 plants and algae will absorb the carbon and release it back as oxygen
@Chris D'oulmeth Diminishing return is more about the point that you get less productivity if you overuse a factor. I guess what you mean is the Liebig law of the minimum, which state that you can not increase the productivity above the lowest factor. But in the case the Terrarium isn´t sealed to 100%, i think the humidity in the glass balancing it self out with the humidity of the room. Even if the lamp heats the glass and there for would made it drier, it would it only dried up to a certain point. Given the variables dosn´t change that much, but hey this system works for 12 years!
What would happen if you opened it up? Or if you put the animals and plants where they normally live?
I wonder if these isolated individuals already have different DNA characteristics than the ones in the wild. Magnificent
possible, since insect breeding cycles are fast, there's a chance they lost some of the defenses for non-centipede predators in favour for anti-centipede defenses
I'm surprised there's enough genetic diversity that they're not all inbred by now.
@@tw1zt84 No inbreeding avoidance has ever been discovered in insects, as far as I'm aware. If anything, they show kin preference. So the higher inbreeding coefficients in this environment keeps the mutation loads down and means that over the course of generations, they become extremely resilient thanks to advantageous recessive phenotypes being expressed. Them being inbred would be nothing but beneficial in this environment.
Thank you, I wondered that too. > @@777Electric
Did the person add the bugs to the jar before closing it?
This is SO cool. I didn't realize you could create self-supporting enclosed ecosystems so easily! Absolutely fascinating. It looks like an empty big bottle of wine or cheap liquor.
I have no idea why am I being recommended this but I'm not complaining. This is really interesting for some reason.
Same 🤣
Same here lol
Same. And I believe many more people get this recommended, only 157 thousand subs but over 16 million views.
I think it got recommended to me because there terrarium in the title and I've watched a lot of terraria guide videos
I don’t agree the “for some reason” part. It is interesting because it is an entire ecosystem within a small glass container! It has been alive for more than a decade. It’s fascinating to wonder what is inside it and what kind of life it has and what kind of changes it has gone through throughout the years. There is no questioning why this is fascinating stuff. It just is, lol.
Your channel inspired me to make one of these myself. Stupidly, I left the jar too close to the window and fried the isopods in the sun. Instead of starting over, I kept the jar closed for another week. I thought essentially everything was dead but realized earwigs and millipedes managed to survive, and now I’m seeing white eggs and very tiny mites and other creatures.
Thank you for this great channel. I originally started my jar for my kids, but I’m the one who can’t stop staring at it every day.
You're actually just baking a five year casserole via thermal dynamics
@@mammon_is_god best comment in all of TH-cam
Post-apocalypse scenario
You accidentally replicated the atmospheric conditions of the astroid strike that led to the dino extinction. All large creatures died off and the ones that could borrow survived thus proving the astroid theory correct. Very cool!
You should not play god, if you are going to be a negligent and incompetent god.
i'm literally imaging the isopods discussing if the jar is flat or not
How about the ongoing discussion about evolution?
And if the jar warming is real
At least they don't have to be concerned that they're being choked to death by plastics.
The jars fake! You can’t see it! It’s the centipedes tryin to control us!
Made my fucking day with this comment wtf lmfao
Something about being hairy and bitter resonate with me.
Lmao my favorite comment here! Thanks for stopping by! :P
Meghan Markle?
Edd VCR I feel that this a minuscule yet complex example of the circle of life
Bitter cress is a very determined plant!
@@Jartopia has their evolution changed by 1 percent yet
Make sure to write who inherits this in your will, because I would cry if someone threw this away
🥺
Now I'm worried about this too :(
@@silver-pearl Don't be worried its very unlikely to happen
It cant survive after 20 years, the glass should be dark
@@retrouvailles4084 What causes the glass becoming dark? Is there any way to reverse it?
Inspired by this video, I made my own terrarium in a jar and it's been closed for about a year. It has a thriving springtail and millipede population, and a couple of roly-polies. When it first staryed out I saw a bunch of those small transparent worms, but I haven't seen any in a while. I put some weeds in at the beginning and it now looks like a mini forest in there. I originally only put one millipede in but I think it laid eggs and there are easily about 20. Really fun thing to do with kids especially!
Nice
How do u start one of those?
@@S3V1LLS I took a big jar, put a few rocks in the bottom, then put in dirt from the garden and then planted weeds from the garden on top. I then arranged some sticks to make it look more interesting and closed it. That's all there is to it! Just make sure it stays out of direct sunlight so it doesn't overheat.
@@derserrs ok i might start one of these one day just to see the evolution by myself
@@S3V1LLS You should. The first time I tried the weeds died within a week or two, and so I added more that eventually did great. Remember to add some water too (but not too much!). It's all about experimentation and finding the right balance.
Ein wunderschöner Blick in die Seele der Natur....mit sehr schöner Musik.....der zeigt, wie wertvoll das Leben ist!
And to think that these animals don’t even know that they live in a jar, to them the jar is the entire planet.
@@RichyStix cool idea for a sci fi story: people in the far future find the edge of the universe, only to discover the truth; we’re beings living in a small terrarium much like the one in this video, being watched by higher beings who created our whole world for their own entertainment.
@@eren-tv2et cool idea!
Insects don’t think, they react (very different!).
@Samson 92 haha I only watched the first one
@@eren-tv2et I'm sure I read a sci fi story with that premise a long time (over 30 years) ago.
Isopod Son: Dad, I'm telling you... we are living in a world inside another world.
Isopod Dad: What did I tell you about eating that algae?!
😂😂😂😂
Men in black
Galaxies contained in a single marble.
HFS this is hilarious little Edgy Teenage Tardigrade and his burly moustached father
@@DustinAlcorn It's about time microbiologists got their own comic strip
Mother isopod to young: "Be good and eat all ur algae, or the centipede monster will get you"
lmao
hahaha yes!
Baby iso: "the wot? O.O"
lmao
Mother centipede to young: "Be good and eat all ur isopod, or your father will eat you"
Wow this brings back memories. We made one of these in science class in 5th grade (about 1994) and I had mine sealed up until the age of 33 years old just a few years ago and the glass cracked and it busted. It was absolutely thriving with life before that happened as it was kept in a garage closet. I never could find myself the ability to throw it away until it fell off the damn shelf that collapsed. I had full intentions on keeping this until the day I died. And before you ask , no, it surprisingly did not stink. Just smelled like musty wet soil.
That's amazing
Whole generations of insects have lived and died in that jar, that is something that is strangely impressive.
Well arthropods, but yeah (even springtails are not considered insects any more, but proto-insects).
Don’t forget the amount of bacteria in there.
"That is something that is strangely impressive" should be written as separate sentence and there's no need for that second "that is". Tsk tsk.
@@douchymcdouche169 i was going to say nice job being a pedantic ass, but then i noticed his grammar nazi pfp lol
@Miet Sauce why did you capitalize ever word?
Imagine if the universe is just a forgotten terrarium inside somebody else is attic.
Mind......... Is................. Blown...............
I had a theory about that, but people just called me insane
Some kid probably found it and thought it would be funny to shake it for 2020
@@zero5496 lol
@@dramaticexperiment144 forgot it in his cargo pants when they were being washed in the washing machine
Amazing how nature regulates herself. Subtitles with a lack of commentary makes it even better.
it's not amazing it's naturaly. we are amazed and can't fit
God is amazing
@@coltongravley1262 *imaginary
Glass ain't part of nature tho
@@quetzalcoatl9993 i mean.. it is, but i know what you mean. But clearly nature is amazing since it does what was shown in the video, but scale it up to the earth size and billions of organisms
Im extremely curious how differently the species inside the jar would evolve from their cousins if they were able to be isolated like this for millions of years.
most likely, the species out in the world would be the ones that change. the ones inside this jar shouldn't have any reason to change at all. pretty amazing
@@boringbilal mutation occurs randomly
No one knows. Mutation in one species in the system may force mutation in another species ( natural selection)
@@arnoygayen1984 because it's rather fragile and very little diversity there's a high chance that if there were a mutation that made one animal much more successful it would kill another species entirely. Ecosystems do fails a lot of the time and more diversity helps fill in the gaps. Like let's say if the centipedes ended up accidentally eating themselves, They die then the isopod population grows out of control and they could drive the plant life to extinction which would then possibly kill off the isopods. Sometimes closed systems like this fail it's part of the challenge in designing them to last. I've seen my fair share of failures but some of them could last a very long time
@@boringbilal both would change, a jar is an extremely specific ecosystem and while the isopods are doing good, they haven't evolved to thrive in those conditions. Most likely a few different species of isopod would evolve adapting to eat different plants, but would be very small and would be unlikely that a lot of species could evolve in such a small ecosystem. The smaller organisms would enjoy faster adaption because of larger population sizes, I wouldn't be suprised if the springtails outcompeted the isopods and the centipedes and became the dominant organism.
@@boringbilal On the other hand, a jar is _very_ different environment than real life. They could definitely engage in comparatively fast evolution.
Imagine if this stays long enough, so the centipedes enters their Stone Age and start making tools from the rock, so they can break the glass.
Imagine if outer space just shattered
@@singingsun04 fuckkk, this got me.
@@singingsun04 imagine the whole outer world dies and all there is left to give s life back on the planet is this terrarium!
And then invade the humanity
Wtf😭
1.2 million years later: The only remaning life on planet Earth is inside this jar.
Eventually the jar will fall over and break. Then life will start on earth again
@@zwurka6826 I like that thought.
We will be over run by centipedes then
And Wall-E will present it proudly to E.V.E, who will obliterate it cause it looked dangerous and she couldn't see inside because of the vapor
@@CatwithFancyHat ow
Organism 1: wait, it's all a jar?
Organism 2: always has been.
Best comment
Damn why didn’t I think of this.
This is extremely deep. Think about it. Isn't earth a jar too? When we explore the infinite universe, will we ever really notice we were always trapped in a self-contained environment that kept us alive? Earth is our trap inside our universe, yet it is also our paradise. The same way those isopods might see the jar and the world some day, we might see the world and the universe. And what if the universe is yet another jar inside of another even greater cosmos? We shall never know, for discovering the mysteries of existence itselt would take more than a thousand lifespans, and even that, is nothing compared to the age of time
chokanashi yes
Best one so far
Just started a half gallon mason jar terrarium! Has 3 centipedes, 3 slugs, countless pill bugs and wood louses, 1 jumping spider, many springtails and more! I sure hope it thrives like yours!!!!
Edit: Just found a millipede finally!
Second edit: I have upgraded to a 3 gallon tank after most of the original inhabitants died do to the slugs absolutely decimating the plants cutting off their source of oxygen! Only the 3 millipedes, the 3 earthworms, 1 of the centipedes, and a single pill bug lived… But they are now thriving in their new tank!
your gonna need more pillbugs so they can trive once again. or, they will go extinct. its your choice
That's really cool, do you have a photo or video?
hows it going now?
Fascinating! You should document it
Don’t you need more than one jumping spider though? How will it breed?
This man put some dirt in a jar and basically became a god
I got a jar of dirt!!
la tasse de thé I’ve got a jar of dirt!!!
Isn't that what happened to earth?
Bruh
Wait, are we all in a giant jar?!?!
Imagine if the world ended and somehow this jar becomes the catalyst to start the next cycle of lives/evolution on this planet.
That is a really cool concept
That would have saved the next life
Pineapple Who said it was a concept... ~ominously said~
Cool concept but we’ll need to speed run through most of it lol and make it the intro
That would be fascinating, Imagine the isopods evolving over the course of millions of years, and then just ending up with another version of humans, only to discover mankind predicted it all along
1M years later: The Centipede discovered that the jar is actually flat.
This one got me lol😂
@@antonioandrade4867 there are a lot of them here
it was a good scroll
@@kwazhims3lf best comment section 😂
They then discovered that the jar was not flat and that it is, in fact, a jar-shaped jar
@@nowanimportant8887 but there’s always that one group of centipedes that believe it’s all a hologram and that the Rollie pollies are just lying to them
What I love about his videos is that there's no narration, just chill bug time
The interesting thing is that they technically have seasons in this jar, season of bugs and season of plants, that are constantly changing.
And who said we can't play God
It's like we have mini eras in this lol. The era of isopods, the era of centipedes, the era of springtails, the era of algae, the era of hairy bittercress, etc.
The organisms inside the jar must have gone some gene modifications also. The natural selection.
Think about the strong isopod survivors everytime the centipedes predate a lot of them, the next generation of isopods would be stronger and would be able to recover from their little population. The gene pool is also constantly changing too because of these little conditions changing.
@@UnnoAds 😂
@@UnnoAds GOD creates life out of nothing.
@@abdullahzubair1149 it’s a joke😐
12 yrs old, damn. That’s older than most of the people in TikTok.
Damn lol
and older than most anti-vax kids.
@@wedividedyou1424 Damn
Lol, not true. Most TikTokers are dumb teens. Now fortnite? Hell yeah.
Amazing
Guy: "Shit the electrics cut off..."
Life in the bottle: "100 seconds ago when your great great grandfather was alive... the great schism came and darkened the realm... horrors lurked 200 centipede feet away from our home but yet we prevailed!"
isopods just breed too fast
I love that. 100 seconds ago.
Centifeet
Holy shit
@J van Sevenhoven Bug time is shorter than real time I guess
Absolutely fascinating. It's truly amazing how you got a self-contained ecosystem that balances and self-maintains for so long. Thanks for sharing!
a sane comment among this section
@@yawg333 thank you :)
The music is very fitting when you realize the baby isopods are trapped in there with a centipede
That got dark
We're trapped on this tiny ball of rock with some pretty troublesome apex-predators ourselves. At least theirs are a different species.
@@Ranstone clever
You can also look at it another way - Every other species is currently trapped on this tiny ball of rock with almost 8 billion pretty troublesome apex-predators.
@@dylaneverett4586 ummmm..... Someone already said that😳
200 years later: The entire terrarium has held a presidential election: Isopods vs centipedes
And the centipedes will say it was rigged by the isopods.
The isopods will riot at the drop of a hat and burn down the plants.
😂
@Dizzy Lol originally it was centipedes = republicams and isopods = democrats.
Best thread ever...hahaha!. The isopods and centipedes are really part of a secret society both working together to control all of the other organisms and the elections are nothing more than a ruse to give the other organisms the illusion of choice.
I'd love to see David Attenborough narrate this.
I see we have a woman of culture here !
@@Kimtanashino Haha :D
His voice is just so relaxing. It feels like I'm listening to a wise old man.
@@FembyAmy So true, maybe because his voice carried a lot of nice documentaries ten or twenty years ago. ;)
"As you can see, a whole lot of nothing happened for a long time. Truly a remarkable testament to natures stubbornness."
I could imagine it in my head
Sealed and self-sustained.
Amazing!
Centipede 1: Have you ever wondered how's life out there?
Centipede 2: There isn't any life out there John.
That's really deep
Isopod 1: The centipedes are oppressing us, comrades. It is time for the Jar Peoples' Revolution
@@UhtredOfBamburgh Then the brave isopodes used ak47s to kill all centipedes and took over the means of production; one week later, they were all starving.
@@bioemiliano Don't you think AKs are a bit large for the jar? Why, even a single one may have trouble fitting inside. Its hard to get supplies past the glass curtain
@@UhtredOfBamburgh I think quite a few could fit in there. I’d say about 5
Source: have won one of those “how many jelly beans are in the jar” contests and got a Flat Stanley Book.
The concepts of nature never cease to amaze me.
You can make a whole fiction world around a jar..
Haha I know right , btw u too ? haha.
It’s non fictional
The brony jar
Have you heard of the Truman Show
fictional??
If you send this video to David Attenborough, I can't image how excited he'll be seeing this and try to explain what's inside.
But then he would spin that the jar will suffer cataclysmic climate change
Yo wut
This is so awesome, i feel like a nerd for saying that but man now i wanna make one. The fact that you have trakced and monitored the activity and have seen patterns in the flucuations is so interesting
Imagine being an Isopod and seeing a magnified face staring into their world.
Well due to their limited intelligence they'd hardly take notice of our existence but if they were smart enough to recognise us; It would be like a god to a caveman.
Oh heavenly being, why did all of my children get eaten again. If you could smite the centipedes, us isopods would build you a shrine!!!
They will start a religion.
"Big face god from dark sky"
this kinda reminds me of attack on titan s1😩
That attack on titan means
"Do you think there are other worlds outside this jar?"
"The outside is barren, no algae grows, no isopods roam. It's just a wasteland, nothing but dust and wood. Venturing out is pure suicide there's no other place we can call home."
"Well we can try right?"
Attack on titan
@Johnathan Johnson pretty motivational if you ask me
@@heysaucemikehere1804 ikr that was a nice quote
this is straight up fallout
@@heartofjustice6041 When I read this back to myself i did actually hear it as the narrator from the first game in my head.
Imagine the creatures in this glass thinking this jar is the whole universe. “I can’t see outside this glass, there must be nothing there. This is the whole of existence.”
I would like to know if the weigh chance over the years.
Imagine we are the creatures inside the jar but on a way bigger scale . Give me chills...
Like us
Bowen Du the marbles of men in black our entire universe is a marble and it is just a toy for something far freater
In the land of The Jar, the centipede is King.
An oddly soothing video to watch. Haven’t felt this relaxed watching TH-cam probably ever.
The Isopods have lived mere inches above a nest of their predators for over a decade. As far as I’m concerned, that’s some scary shit.
It's the only world they've ever known
In this world
We walk on the roof of hell
Gazing at flowers
- Kobayashi Issa
headly21 haiku brother, wonderful poem.
100M years later : one of the isopod created TH-cam channel and make his own terrarium to watch small living thing inside it.
Lol
Jesus that meta
Nah
I saw that Rick and Morty episode lol
Fractal af
Can you imagine how freaked out their civilization is gonna be when they go to launch their first rocket ship, and it ends up hitting the cork?
OPERATION FISH BOWL
That has got to be the funniest post I have seen in months... Thank you, I needed that. 😅
Your a dome jarer.
Haha hahaha hahhahaaa
And more and more freaked out when they pass through the cork but hit the ceiling.😂
This is really cool, I didn't want a aquarium due to management issues so this kind of thing adapted to my needs is perfect. Thank you for a great video as well, no annoying bass drops and screeching
I can imagine the world ending one day. Life dying out.
But somewhere. There is a jar like this. Left undisturbed on an abandoned rotting homes shelf.
Eventually that shelf would break, the jar falling with it.
Maybe the plants an animals would spread out again, give life anew. Or maybe it would die out, with hope being put into another jar.
God that’s beautiful
Wow makes you use your brain hun
I never thought about it this way
Damn this comment gives feelings of hopefulness, but also gets you feelin rlly T O U G H, u know.
Then you realize that would never happen
1000000 years later...
The Isopods have completed the Manhattan Project
MAD go BRRRRRRRRRRR
that reminds me of the Sea Monkeys off of the Simpsons. it was a tree house of horrors.
every hour to us was like 100 years from the sea monkey..they (LISA and Bart )came back a few days later and it was thousands of years for the sea monkeys and then they had advanced technology like Laser weapons and nuclear weapons
More like 100 million years later
meanwhile, Gandhi isopod is threatening to use nuke against the centipede populations…
I wonder how unstable the ecosystem was when it started. Was there a time when it seemed like it wouldn't survive before it made a comeback and reached a sustainable equilibrium?
Omg ...there is intelligent life within these comments
@@bdoo60 comment section is just copypastas and cheap jokes now
@@lizzzyz there was never a time when youtube comments were mostly well thought out and reasoned. It used to be more hostile and more name-calling, now it's more memey and pandering for likes. But always a shitshow
@@sharp9563 still not bad
I imagine It happened multiple times, specially in the Very beggining, and has gone back and forth, but not uniformelly throughout the world.
This is one of the most beautiful videos I've seen. It remembers me of the video "this ciliate is about to die" from journey to the microcosmos. The choice of music is amazing, the images are amazing. Looking forward for more of your content (-:
Something similar is happening at the bottom of my school bag
Hmm, I didn’t see centipedes on the supplies list. Guess I gotta get some from the store.
Lmao.
I can relate 😂
same
No joke, when I fully emptied my schoolback once during summer break, there was soil on the ground, I might have created new life..
What is the size of this terrarium?
Taking a break from the piano for some gardening?
The Legend
10 litre jar
@Vinheteiro Haha didn't expect to see you here lol
Ay it’s him!
Honestly this just makes me think of earth just on an immensely simplified scale, it's such a delicate balance, with each piece playing its part in the cycle to maintain the ecosystem. What are humans' roles originally I wonder.
That's up to the humans to decide, whereas every other animal knows his role in the planet, man was gifted with the ability to decide
@@willywanker1906 we originally didnt tho we evolved to we were originnaly just monkeys with monkey purposes
Humans are the apex predators of apex predators. Before that, we were simple omnivores, like the other Apes. Filling the role of both predator and herbivore. Apes are quite versatile in the eco system.
Gardener.
The most recent variety of humans got rid of their closest cousins by breeding out or killing them off...and who really knows what little experiments scientists are getting on with in sealed laboratories with the Human Genome, evolution in nature progresses through mutation, but we seem to have a problem with letting mutated humans go through their lives without interference and tend to try to get rid of anything that isn't "normal" so it will be interesting to see how the next Evolutionary step takes off in regards to our species. Well, if we don't kill ourselves off first, that is... for a supposedly intelligent species, we are capable of some really stupid shit sadly.
Not sure how this entered in my recommendations but a big thumbs up, very cool.
It really would be interesting to compare the genes of the organisms inside the jar to specimens on the outside. If you ever have to or decide to open the jar, you really should consider this. A university's biology department would probably be interested in this.
Consider breathing the forbidden oxygen too
Who had mutated isopod virus for their 2020 bingo card
@@darkmatterii834 Should that count as 2 spaces since it's so obscure?
I was thinking about that, how long its the life of an isopode? Hundreds or thousands of generations passed in that jar
Its only been 12 years
I wish I could come back in a million years to see if it's still alive and how life has evolved
The isopods will have become smart enough to start farming.
Probably too much algae to see anything 😂
Just look around you, you are already seeing organisms that evolved for millions of years.
In a million years the glass would probably be broken.
But dont be dissapointed! Probs the life inside the jar would eventually manage to survive in the form of spores and their children :D
Yes but in noclip 1
I fed my fish brine shrimp as a child, and my older brother asked me to hatch him some to keep (seamonkeys).
We set up a 3 gallon tank with a small pinch of eggs. I told him not to expect much since they would starve after a day or two.
A bit over a decade later we found the tank still occupied. He had left it up against a barn when he moved away so it got enough rain water to prevent drying out but not so much it flooded them all out.
The shrimp had a great life, as far as shrimp-life goes, eating the algae that grew on the surface and the sides of the tank.
-- I'm not sure how they continued to survive as the water desalinated over the years, but they didn't seem to mind, and their eggs continued to hatch.
cool
I did that too actually but my story is better
@@LemurJackson told us about it, then
@@skinnyg3290 i cant, it goes to another school
I get tadpole shrimp when it floods a corner of my yard in the summer rains. They're a dusty red with no eyes, long whiskers and a bright blue stripe on their backs, they get as long as your thumb at times.
No idea where they came from as we're the first owners of the house, and it's all desert out here. Maybe they just have eggs in the soil.
Can’t believe how interesting I found this, I would never have looked for it, but I am glad it found me. Fascinating 🧐
One Isopod right now is claiming he is going to come back to his starting point by only traveling west, thereby proving the jar is round.
Epic comment LOL!
holy fuack lol
Stolen comment
pit fermi I swear I did not. However I don’t claim that someone else couldn’t have come up with the same though simultaneously or independently.
Flat jar theory
Imagine the human population disappearing in a blink of an eye and all that's left are the stuff we left behind. Somewhere, in someone's house is this ecosystem, and it will continue to thrive without us there.
Until the power shuts off.
The Missing Link 😂😭😭😭
Until then first freeze, anyways.
@@TheMissingLink2
Yeah, like holy shit...
This guy is gonna have send a huge shock to this ecosystem by shattering it outside.
And we got extinct due to nukes
I made one of these once and they ended up starting a war and nuking themselves out of existence. But it was fun while it lasted.
Well, don't put radioactive components in there!
Uh oh it's gonna seem familiar!
Some of them should not have been interested in politic stuff
Better if they could be an artists
@@Kyumifun Artist from Austria.
hey Bender
Thanks mate, you have just spared me 10 years of my life!
Organism 1: How did we get here?
Organism 2: Billions of years ago...
Kiss me baby
-or- organism 2: i was visited by god in a dream...
Organism 2: God himself took us from the heavens into the world....
Organism 3: God spoke to me, therefore you need to obey my orders and provide food, money and resources
Organism 5: purposterous twas a quaint dream and ye shall be rediculed for thy transgressions on modern science you cephalopod. Clearly we spontaneously were put on earth by a chain reaction starting with the anomaly of nothingness.
It would be cool if the world ended and ll life on earth ended but somehow this jar still survived but broke open and millions of years later the earth is populated with the wildly different and diverse ancestors of this single jar.
"It would be cool if the world ended and ll life on earth ended"
Well yes but actually no
@@markus2584 I mean it would be cool without the jar also
Yeah that does sound really cool actually.
@@MoreLifeMusicMedia it'd be cool because after mankind destroyed the earth the jar could help the earth to recover
"wildly different and diverse"
-a population of isopods that descends of 3 or 4 ancestors at most
I could imagine the world ends and somewhere in someone’s basement this small jar of life still thrives like nothings happening, like it’s in its own universe.
As long as it has the correct amount of sunlight it could theoretically last forever.
When the power goes out, this habitat will die
If you could make it orbit the sun at the right distance so that it gets a constant amount of sunlight, would it keep thriving? That would be a cool experiment
@@dudefrombelgium unfortunately no, solar radiation would literally fry everything living inside
@@Ghuirm give it some sunglasses
BEAUTIFUL! ❤️ just breathtaking. Crazy how you can see the nematodes with no problem. 12 years old. Wow that’s awesome! I had one but mama dukes made me get rid of it. Had to move. 🤷🏼♂️
I am going to build a huge aquarium and terrarium too! 🙌🏼❤️
This is absolutely incredible. Thank you for sharing!
Hey love your Mandela Effect videos, keep 'em coming my man! Your side channels rock as well, have a good day!
@RaptorM82 Wut-
Animal abuse is so incredible!
@@Icex7 lol because that's exactly what this is
@@ianmacdonald4163 Yeah?
This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen, it shows really well how nature is balanced on a small scale.
that is true but i also think jartopia knew how to create a healthy balance
@@groeleorg Oh yeah totally, I didn't mean to underscale his skills in knowing what and how to put in any way, just that this is the perfect small scale display of our planet and how it is balanced and how it works. This is indeed quite the masterpiece of knowledge and harmony.
Totally dude
We truly are so lucky
See you guys in 7 years when TH-cam recommends this again
Tae Robinson i wonder how the terrarium would be 7 years from now 🤔
Se ya then
see you later.
See ya
Cya soon good friend
I really like the music and camerawork. I never considered Terrariums to be so interesting.
This little jar contains a preserved ecosystem that is separated from the outside world. These plants and animals are following their own unique evolutionary path. As more decades pass, these bugs can look noticeably different from bugs outside.
Legit speciation
@@arnavrawat9864 this is called anagenesis
While minor differences may arise, the jar is closed off to the world, it’s unlikely any major event would happen that doesn’t the involve the entire ecosystem collapsing. Evolutionary pressure here seems to be really low.
You would need evolutionary pressure to force a change, and you would need like 100,000 years. Also as groups remain cohesive genetic diversity decreases, not increases, so as time passes the groups ability to survive a selection pressure decreases.
how about the effects of incest on bugs? Or is this only a problem for bigger animals?
That's cool af. If I had one I'll definitely just stare at it for hours. Days without internet would be much more interesting
Nothing stops you from creating your own terrarium.
OATMEAL!
Going outside produced the same effect for me. He has created outside, inside.
Specially if you have a guitar
Dont get it twisted, technological advancements are a great thing for humans. Just too much of anything is bad.
What a peaceful and wholesome exististance in that jar. An entire world with a tight balanced food chain and rain cycle. Sometimes it's the small things that show how simplicity can be beautiful. Great video!
Well I mean I'm not sure the baby isopods screaming in terror while getting eaten alive by a walking nightmare would agree, but yeah.
Having centipede in it will never make it peaceful at all. They are beasts. I have a terrarium(30x20) with Porcellio scaber "Red Salmiak"(my own selection they look like how red salmiak would look, red base with black rectangles) Tere are 300+ of them it's insane. Havin predators in there would be sad. Cenipedes live for several years(5-6y).
You should try prison.🤣
Apart from the isopod kids being munched on by a nightmare with 100 legs but that aside, pretty peaceful
@@foilhattiest1 lmfao
This takes some skill to build this eco environment but what a reward to see it thrive and fluctuate. I gotta make one of these.
What if you made this a multi-decade project? Imagine showing this to a university 20 or 50 years from now. Then pass it on to your kids, and so on.
There is a guy with a plant in a bottle that he put together in 1960. No bugs though. His name is David Latimer if you want to look him up.
Gryphex wow will look him up. Thx!
I am 12 and am going to make one of these. Hopefully it can last 80 years.
That one asshole grandchild who shoves it under their bed and forgets about it as the organisms are plunged into an infinite winter
Then the kids will lose it or get rid of it between moving from apartment to apartment as all important family heirlooms are eventually lost 😭
100 years from now. An astronaut isopod, 'astropod' if you will, gazes at his home from space.
"Wait...so it's all jar?" He says to his co-pilot, who is indeed not an astropod. After the great famine in the seventh age, the centipedes and isopods made a pact. Their peace time efforts paved the way for such prosperities as a space force. This was an astropede.
Raising his space pistol, the centipede relents, "Always was..." and thus the pact was broken.
What did the centipedes eat during these peace times?
@@curiously-cinnamon Cannibalism. You watched the video. You knew that.
@@josephjolley6058 no they disposed of the naturally deceased and fertilized the algae
The centipede is a nimble navigator.
when does this series start.....
This is literally a simplistic microcosm that reflects our own macrocosm. So amazing.
No. They are insects 🚽🚮🙄
@@LEllis-ui3lx shut up bugs lit (not saying i dont play god and cause a mass extinction with my bug spray from time to time but if they didnt exist i wouldnt have the joy of doing so)
Ikr centipedes got hunted to extinction where i live from an invasive ant species and isopod are usually just cave dwellers under animal water troffs and loose boards with damp soil here i literally didnt even know they were like insect cattle because when ever i see them theyre just living in mud so to see them like genuinely grazing and getting hunted is so fricken cool (though regardless of where they live and if theyre grazing or not like i said in my other reply i gonna magnifine glass that ass for being a lesser being then me and no im not insane i swear dont send someone to check up on me)
@@LEllis-ui3lx you're ignorant.
@@LEllis-ui3lx they're not insects. My God, I have no words. Please don't reproduce.
Just found this video/your channel. And it is sooooooo awesome! Keep it going! So fascinating. Really bring me back to being a kid (not to say that your videos/ecosystems are childish by any means). Really quite interesting!! Love it
5 years later: The isopods have learned how to farm.
Thats deep bro
And religion
@@angrybob197😂
Now they planing a family and travel abroad 🤣
30 years later
Help! The isopods have escaped the terrarium! They found a way to drill through the lid.
100 years later:
A human is born in the jar
Evolution
@@cadennorth8539 No such thing as evolution. Planet Earth is a massive terrarium designed by an intelligent being.
@@johnnyrebellion8672 aight
@@johnnyrebellion8672 Don't like the confederate flag but what you said are facts lol.
@@nunyabusiness5819 It's just a piece of clothe
Young Isopod: " This here is my Mom, my Dad, and my brother who is also a first cousin..."
The jar is in West Virginia?
@@chrishushak3562 There was a girl in my Highschool who had 2 kids before she graduated... different fathers, the fathers were brothers. Her name was Sophie von Greiffenberg. They were first cousins and half brothers.
@@sophievongreiffenberg3182 it was 35 years ago i don't care. Do you think you should post comments online with your full name?
@@sophievongreiffenberg3182 There...fixed it.
"... OH GOD IS THAT HOW IT HAPPENED"
I did this same concept as a school science fair projects years ago. Was pleasantly surprised at the growth
Sophisticated Aliens looking down: Hey look! Our experiment has copied our experiment.
I have a feeling that this comment shall be great...
Now it's time to destroy them, before they outsmart us!
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Rick and Morty style
And they know that we know it