Rain Forest Experiment

While I was at the University of Illinois some of my friends lived in a house on Iowa St. We called the house Starbase Iowa, ok so we were geeks. One night one of the guys in the house decided to make some killer chili in a crock pot. After he finished cooking it he basically took the crock pot to bed with him and ate out of the pot. When he got sleepy he just slipped the pot under the bed. He forgot about it for a couple weeks (months?). When he finally found the crock pot the lid was steamy and glued to the pot. He decided that he didn't want to deal with it and put it back under the bed.

We called it the rain forest experiment. Hours were spent wondering what was brewing in the crock pot. Since it was an isolated system we conjectured that something Darwinian was happening inside. When he finally moved he cleaned up the crock pot while the rest of us kept our distance (measured in miles).