Matt Kielty

Okay.

And there's sort of two options here.

You know, like it might be that all the creatures get, you know, to some certain population level and with a bit of eating one another and more being born over here.

And then it basically stabilizes, you know, beyond the day-to-day up and downs.

It basically is like a line in the end.

Like a never-ending line of harmony.

Yeah.

Okay.

Or maybe would you see like more like a cycle, like there would be more of one thing for a while and it would dominate for a while, but then it sort of crashes and because there's not enough of another thing for it to eat and then another thing takes over.

And then instead of like, like, so in this case, instead of like a line, what you have is a circle.

That's right.

It's what Mufasa says in The Lion King.

The circle of life.

That's the song, right?

Yeah.

So two options, line or circle, which are kind of just two flavors of balance.

The prevailing view was that when they are left alone, the nature tends to get balanced.

But here in this barrel, Reinhardt thought, I have the perfect opportunity to answer this question.

I've got an ecosystem that's totally untouched by humans.

And the species in that ecosystem are born, reproduce, and die at a super quick clip.