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matt-attack
on June 6, 2014
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A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years wit...
> now contains bacteria, fungi, or other organisms
Whichever types it contains
now
, surely it started out with :)
TheCoreh
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Not necessarily. The bacteria might have evolved inside the bottle.
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I don't think it is unreasonable to assume some unique mutations in the bacteria? Depends I guess on what (if any) uv and other radiation gets through -- more perhaps than just the number of bacteria generations one would expect in 40 years...
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Whichever types it contains now, surely it started out with :)