Matt Kielty

So in just a few months time, I'll be able to see like hundreds of generations worth of transformation.

And so he starts tracking how the various species are doing.

Week after week, he's like interrupting Christmas with his family because he's like, I got to go, sorry.

Looking at and scrutinizing like a glass of water over and over and over again.

And everyone's like, this is the most boring thing.

Like even his colleagues who are like scientists who do boring other stuff.

I got to go check in on my stale water.

Exactly.

They are all like, this is like, they're like, what even is this experiment?

But from another way, it's like, he is a god.

overseeing a tiny universe where he is watching it and it's like generations are passing in effectively the blink of an eye for him.

And he's watching this like very dramatic story unfolding, but he's trying to figure out like what exactly is the shape of it?

Like what is the plot?

He's like, am I in a suspense movie?

Am I in an apocalypse?

That's exactly what's happening.

And he can't figure it out because what he is seeing...

It's like a microbial Game of Thrones or something that he's like watching.

Like the species that are there, they're booming, they're crashing.

One type of creature could be the dominant species in the barrel for hundreds of generations.