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Matt Kielty

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1691 total appearances

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Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Yeah, go ahead.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

I think it's like a semantic thing.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

That's what I love.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

So maybe he didn't create it, but he like... He sustained it.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

He didn't sustain it because he didn't touch it.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

It just happened.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

It's like a symbol of ocean that he got and somehow this symbol of ocean is continuing to live.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Okay, so also when he sees that it's alive, part of the other reason that it excites him is that at that time in the 80s and 90s, there was this kind of open question in the field of ecology about the natural course of an ecosystem.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

And I'm kind of like bastardizing the question in a way that I understand it.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

So like, but this is basically, I think what it is.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

If you could just give an ecosystem the basic things it needs, right?

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Like sunlight and space and whatever, but...

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

But there were no humans around to mess with it.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

You know, no comets, no earthquakes, no outside confounding factors.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

What would happen?

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

What would that ecosystem do?