User creates virtual ecosystem in Second Life

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If I was to turn off the clouds the whole system would die in about six hours,” Laukosargas Svarog tells me. “Turn off the bees and [the plants stop] growing, because nothing gets pollinated. And it’s the transfer of pollen that signals the plants to drop seeds. The seeds blow in the wind, and if they land on good ground according to different rules for each species, they grow when they receive rain water from the clouds. It’s all interdependent.