Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

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  • Опубліковано 15 чер 2009
  • www.ted.com Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments. This is the first TED talk drawn from an independently organized TEDx event, held at the University of Southern California.
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  • @chrisday1526
    @chrisday1526 4 роки тому +28

    This woman is incredibly passionate about this. Very interesting talk, enjoyed it, thank you.

  • @rohanr6708
    @rohanr6708 3 роки тому +119

    Yes theory brought me here

  • @CAIsMyCrack
    @CAIsMyCrack 13 років тому +206

    4 months to make a pizza... what if she burnt it lol.

    • @ninjasocks6823
      @ninjasocks6823 4 роки тому +5

      some guy tried to make a pencil from scratch, took him 2 years

    • @montanamike7948
      @montanamike7948 3 роки тому +4

      She would make another because by then she has enough produce and ingredients to make them from then in granted she has sustainable sources. Duh.

    • @dad4378
      @dad4378 2 роки тому +2

      Timbo slice are you alive?

  • @CuriousNekosan
    @CuriousNekosan 12 років тому +13

    This is a fantastic talk. She has good energy. With regards to the biosphere project I found the role of the soil within the enclosure particularly interesting. Essentially it was the microorganisms consuming organic matter within the soil which caused the CO2 problem. I wonder what would of happened if they put more thought into engineering the soil. I would love to have that job. This is just so interesting. :D

  • @moosefactory133
    @moosefactory133 7 років тому +3

    I will be visiting Tucson this June and hopefully will have a chance to visit Biosphere 2 if it is opened to the public

  • @Abquid
    @Abquid 14 років тому +13

    The Biosphere2 is still out there near Tucson, AZ and well worth visiting...so interesting that I watched this rather scattered presentation and even read the book Jane Poynter wrote about the experience.

  • @ANDYBONE7
    @ANDYBONE7 4 роки тому +2

    really good video. great information thank you I have learn a lot.

  • @MrNiceguy3210
    @MrNiceguy3210 9 років тому +263

    Biosphere should be attempted again, except with real scientists and a better design.

    • @MrAlexanderLang
      @MrAlexanderLang 7 років тому +14

      just real scientist would do.

    • @MrLiquidxIce
      @MrLiquidxIce 6 років тому +4

      Or survival experts

    • @catsboi6278
      @catsboi6278 5 років тому +3

      I don't know if they could do that because it's opens to tours know and also it's cooler than you think when your actually there

    • @millanferende6723
      @millanferende6723 3 роки тому +2

      @@MrLiquidxIce "Time to drink my own piss."

    • @grantdaly2986
      @grantdaly2986 3 роки тому

      Space station seems to cope.

  • @brandonarita8057
    @brandonarita8057 3 роки тому

    Excelente video

  • @bullvinetheband7260
    @bullvinetheband7260 7 років тому +19

    Part of the bio dome should have been reserved for evergreen trees they produce oxygen year round. If there pruned like a zen garden the redwood will stay well under 100 feet.

    • @Just.A.T-Rex
      @Just.A.T-Rex Рік тому

      It is. The biggest problem with the trees was that they didn’t account for simulating strong enough winds.

  • @paulussantosociwidjaja4781
    @paulussantosociwidjaja4781 5 років тому

    This remind me to the way of living at Brockwood Park Educational Community in UK I spent 4 and half years there.

  • @Eddie303
    @Eddie303 13 років тому +2

    Superb... Thanx uploader

    • @mooncaje
      @mooncaje 3 роки тому +1

      Damn 9 years ago. Thats mad bro how are you know?

  • @robdieselpower
    @robdieselpower 13 років тому +5

    @JUKIO01 I´m using it for fictional mars missions in school, it´s very motivating!

  • @gledalka
    @gledalka 15 років тому +1

    amazing!

  • @funnyguise
    @funnyguise 15 років тому +3

    She touches on permaculture with the rake story. I'd love to see Sepp Holzer (via translator, of course) or Bill Mollison or someone speaking on the subject.
    Hey, TEDtalksDirector, do you talk requests?

  • @josiya4187
    @josiya4187 2 роки тому

    Epic video - stellar ending! :)

  • @popaddict
    @popaddict 15 років тому +3

    LOL
    I'm always impresses by fellow youtubers and their witty comments!

  • @jasonlajoie
    @jasonlajoie 15 років тому +28

    Boy the end really made me feel guilty about all my flatulence. My poor great, great, great grandchildren are going to have to breath that in.

  • @jihadssignatureofficial9436
    @jihadssignatureofficial9436 6 місяців тому

    Too much informative
    That's great❤

  • @TheAmazingMrMcFlyy
    @TheAmazingMrMcFlyy 5 років тому +13

    This lady is “doing the most” for ted

  • @XCoreProduction
    @XCoreProduction 11 років тому +4

    Best bio lesson by lussi ever

  • @robdieselpower
    @robdieselpower 13 років тому

    @worries good point!

  • @Sonic88Reducer
    @Sonic88Reducer 15 років тому

    Noiiiccee i want more pauly shore

  • @cliveramsbotty6077
    @cliveramsbotty6077 8 років тому +26

    glass blocks UV, condensation forms inside structures, curing concrete and calcium carbonate, humans like shagging. We didn't know any of this before the biosphere did we?

  • @1schwererziehbar1
    @1schwererziehbar1 15 років тому +1

    best ted talk in months.

    • @dad4378
      @dad4378 2 роки тому

      Are you alive 😐

  • @gledalka
    @gledalka 15 років тому +1

    awesome idea!! :)

  • @robdieselpower
    @robdieselpower 13 років тому +1

    @BandytaCzasu yes, they do. Try it!

  • @eatingfatty
    @eatingfatty 15 років тому +2

    now that is awesome!

  • @1derShorts
    @1derShorts 15 років тому +1

    cool, is there any way i can read ur thesis?

  • @ratholin
    @ratholin 15 років тому +1

    wow second ted talk this week that used biophilic I just wish she hadn't given Prometheus credit for Tesla. This lady is nuts and brilliant at the same time. Good talk

  • @GrayGuard
    @GrayGuard 13 років тому

    Been there.

  • @LordTerror56
    @LordTerror56 15 років тому +1

    "14:20 this picture is so wrong xD"
    Yea. Another problem with it is that the top half of the picture has WAY more stars than the bottom half.

  • @Chemicalogic
    @Chemicalogic 15 років тому +2

    Ya, I understand that they do groundbreaking research that's applicable to colonizing other planets, but I was ranting about how we've been--and still are--ultra careless with biosphere one.

  • @izzzzzz6
    @izzzzzz6 4 роки тому

    I just stumbled across this: They were building biosphere mentioned at 25mins in this TW video.
    ​@​

  • @CH--mo9ep
    @CH--mo9ep 10 років тому

    Wow !

  • @E1GHTY8
    @E1GHTY8 15 років тому

    excellent observation

  • @JabroneyDirt
    @JabroneyDirt 5 років тому +4

    Wow, I never knew biodome was a documentary?

  • @robdieselpower
    @robdieselpower 13 років тому +1

    @xXAkridXx its very educational, I used in class. Perfect. If only she´d be less overexcited ;)

  • @conoba
    @conoba 15 років тому +3

    Rain is 99% dinosaur piss that has been distilled serveral million times.

  • @zeytelaloi
    @zeytelaloi 15 років тому +1

    omfg i was really surprised when i heard she spent time in Eritrea. n i think ive seen those farms seen

  • @robdieselpower
    @robdieselpower 13 років тому

    @BarneyFlart look for JUKIO01´s comment. It´s because of mars missions.

  • @mahabaida3077
    @mahabaida3077 9 років тому +26

    basically the hunger games

  • @Mastikator
    @Mastikator 15 років тому

    Cool

  • @sillyhead34
    @sillyhead34 15 років тому +5

    wow. im jealous of this lady. she got to experience a completely pure way of life. she, for a while, understood everything about her life. one of the biggest stressors in my life is that i know that i would have no idea how to take care of myself if i did not have the option to depend on numerous industries and companies. and that, because i depend on the things i get from the store, i have no control over my life.

  • @chawk111
    @chawk111 15 років тому +3

    Where do they keep the anti-Pauly Shore module?.

  • @Thetrutv
    @Thetrutv 13 років тому +4

    She knows too much about what she is talking about, what an intelligent woman.

  • @thinhpham4713
    @thinhpham4713 4 роки тому +1

    Interesting how she felt when she was at a supermarket.

  • @Todd82TA
    @Todd82TA 13 років тому +15

    I wonder if she has to water her backyard to get it to look like that, or if she used native plants that pretty much are self-sustaining?

    • @benhelius4204
      @benhelius4204 Рік тому +1

      As she said, it's only for 6-8 weeks in spring, I assume, she doesn't water it
      (aside from that well maybe?)

  • @CurtBombS
    @CurtBombS Рік тому

    I can't find any information about Jane's education/Biography before Biosphere 2 when she was 29. Am I to just assume she was just a rich British kid?

  • @cal8414
    @cal8414 9 років тому +18

    Why did the biosphere projects stop after one failed attempt ?

    • @271gadget
      @271gadget 9 років тому +17

      ***** Wasn't really sustainable, Jane did not mention everything which happened. At one point she cut the tip of her finger of so went out of the biosphere for medical attention... Also the 8 members were not scientists so they did not entirely understand it all. At another point the scientists outside began pumping oxygen in and carbon dioxide out. Hence, this all defeats the idea of sustainable.

    • @mikaelazed
      @mikaelazed 6 років тому +1

      Also the second time they ran out of finance and there was a dispute over money issues

    • @whitepeoplergullible9241
      @whitepeoplergullible9241 4 роки тому

      It's there you can visit it.

    • @kuraddohikari
      @kuraddohikari 4 роки тому +1

      @@whitepeoplergullible9241 you can, they use it for other earth science projects now. I guess it was decided it's better put to use for other purposes rather than just continuing to put new people in it and experiment with a closed system again. But if we need it for that purpose again they could do it, the buildings are being maintained and they could go ahead and shut the doors again. Maybe one day we'll be looking to setting up a colony on the Moon and they'll do this experiment in the Biosphere with more scientific planning.

    • @annebruecks7381
      @annebruecks7381 2 роки тому

      @@kuraddohikari It was donated to the University of Arizona eventually, after the second attempt was stopped by the IRS/government.

  • @26bellezalatina
    @26bellezalatina 9 років тому +9

    Who is watching in 2015?

    • @eurydicewaltz5063
      @eurydicewaltz5063 9 років тому +2

      Yaritza Garcia Me. You can see her chopped of finger, and that's the whole reason why she ruined everything. But she covers that up.

    • @danielho9544
      @danielho9544 9 років тому +1

      They also pump oxygen from biosphere 1 in to biosphere 2. Because during the night the plants in the biosphere 2 steals their oxygen and they just can't breathe. The whole this is a major fail. LoL and ya I am watching it at 2015. HI

    • @andreaquinn1645
      @andreaquinn1645 8 років тому

      daniel ho Biosphere has generated about 125 scientific studies, including regarding climate change impacts on acidification of the ocean and the repercussions therefrom. It seems like a primer on climate change might be of use to you. ncse.com/climate/climate-change-101

    • @SheriffMuttonchops
      @SheriffMuttonchops 6 років тому

      No one is.

    • @johannesfranck1770
      @johannesfranck1770 5 років тому

      2020

  • @IdrisBusari
    @IdrisBusari 10 років тому +10

    Transform deserts to #Eden . #ThrowAwaytheRake , let dead leaves build up the topsoil and build an #oasis !

  • @ajickdesign1998
    @ajickdesign1998 3 роки тому +1

    Yes Theory?

  • @MitzvosGolem1
    @MitzvosGolem1 2 роки тому

    The 1972 film "silent running " may have inspired this ...

  • @marshallbishop2506
    @marshallbishop2506 6 років тому +23

    Ahhh the mighty oxygen scrubber known as concrete.

  • @sausage4mash
    @sausage4mash 15 років тому +41

    you have inspired me too poop more , thank you

    • @Alkazone5
      @Alkazone5 4 роки тому +1

      No Problem

    • @dad4378
      @dad4378 2 роки тому

      @@Alkazone5 No Problem

    • @m4tt655
      @m4tt655 2 роки тому

      @@dad4378 No Problem

    • @ieatsocks7567
      @ieatsocks7567 2 роки тому

      @@m4tt655 No Problem

  • @Cypherson
    @Cypherson 15 років тому

    If that's the most you take from this, that is sad indeed.

  • @etwasnichts9398
    @etwasnichts9398 3 роки тому +1

    In fact she was the one that failed the project with taking stuff back to the biosphere 2 after a injury of her hand

  • @michaelvoskanyan220
    @michaelvoskanyan220 12 років тому +1

    I watched this because in my science class we are designing a "biosphere" so, yeah.....

  • @davidbrauner2822
    @davidbrauner2822 7 років тому

    So exelent pointes for vegetable oxigen teraforming Mars?

  • @JustHuntr
    @JustHuntr Рік тому +1

    she is spot on.. the small things do count.. dont stand there and allow the water to run out the faucet while brushing your teeth for example. BE conservative

  • @JennerPomo
    @JennerPomo 14 років тому +2

    I am looking for a team and Investers to rebuild BioSphere 2 in a Matter Trap and build a satallight
    and put it in to space by the matter trap beam.
    The Satalight then beams up the BioSphere 2 and puts it in to space the BioSphere 2 picks up the Satalight and the Moves to the Moon and Mars.
    Then at the Moon or Mars BioSphere 2 puts out the Satalight and beams on to the suerfus
    of the Moon or Mars.
    Charles Gitchell Jr.
    Jenner Pomo Research/Earth/Space/

  • @adityasinghrajput5148
    @adityasinghrajput5148 2 роки тому

    theinfographics show bought me here

  • @niniomigrania
    @niniomigrania 15 років тому

    But its better to fail here on earth all we can before going into other planets, this still a success in my opinion.

  • @JenGM24
    @JenGM24 5 років тому

    👏👏👏

  • @Sgt-Gravy
    @Sgt-Gravy 6 років тому +1

    This project should get the first Artificial Intelligence super computer... Right?

  • @BandytaCzasu
    @BandytaCzasu 14 років тому +1

    Those small biospheres in jar really do work?

  • @joshuatoro8977
    @joshuatoro8977 6 років тому +1

    Where is the Cow?

  • @bishop51807
    @bishop51807 5 років тому

    80% comments are trolls this experiment did show us how little we knew of earth.

  • @ledzzappa
    @ledzzappa 8 років тому +5

    this bird is flippin loopy, i read her book on biosphere 2.

  • @Mister__Jey
    @Mister__Jey 2 роки тому

    The goal is kind of weird, so why didn't they have tundra, why didn't they have an ice landscape? I mean, these are also areas on earth that take up a lot of space.

    • @2pua3
      @2pua3 2 роки тому

      Part of it was finding biomes that would compliment and help each other. For example, the Desert was a fog desert, so it was more "wet" than a normal desert. The tundra wouldn't have contributed much and would have been difficult to maintain, esp because everything was interconnected. The biomes weren't separated.
      I also imagine logistically, it would have been a nightmare. The Sonoran Desert is *hot* and the cooling was a closed system. How would you keep it cold enough sustainably enough?

  • @JennerPomo
    @JennerPomo 14 років тому +1

    Needed gravity mite come from SEG's Iron core Magnet's spinning.
    Charles Gitchell Jr.
    Jenner Pomo Research/Earth/Space/

  • @vegidio
    @vegidio 6 років тому +6

    The idea was great and I think it should be attempted again with the lessons learned from the first experiment, but they need to do things right:
    1. Put real scientists there. Most of the team in Biosphere 2, including Jane, had next to zero scientific background.
    2. Don't try to fake the experiment like they did in the original one, using some resources from outside like... oxygen!
    3. The biospherians don't need to me military personal, but they need military training. Jane was the first failure of the experiment when she cut the tip of her finger in the first 2 weeks, forcing her to leave and later return. By the way, when she returned, she brought new resources from outside.
    4. Also, the need to someone (or at least 2 people) with some type of medical training. The fact the Jane had to leave the experiment because she cut the tip of her finger was embarrassing.

  • @saraessex8124
    @saraessex8124 5 років тому

    Stubby, and squirrely...springboard into the future!

  • @MJack2255
    @MJack2255 6 років тому +4

    I like how she says she walked into BioSphere and became one with it but left out for only 7 days before she had to leave for medical treatment because she hurt herself with something then had spare parts in the air lock with her when she came back in. I wanted to hear about the 8 people and the two factions. Not the same old bullshit she could have said in 5 minutes.

  • @mooncaje
    @mooncaje 3 роки тому +3

    School brought me here....

  • @vincelamb4063
    @vincelamb4063 3 роки тому

    "Spaceship Earth" brought me here.

  • @JeremyGViking
    @JeremyGViking 15 років тому

    AND A KILLER BUZZ!! lol
    Thats very true though.

  • @firstnamesecondname5341
    @firstnamesecondname5341 4 роки тому

    While her energy levels are admirable she needs to learn to turn the volume down, watching the 14 minutes from earth documentary and quite a few biosphere recordings, it seemed her over enthusiasm caused a few issues and subsequent oversight resulted in a couple of dangerous situations evolving

  • @cyphaflip
    @cyphaflip 15 років тому

    Eh... the point of Biosphere 2 was to test if we could erect these self-contained, closed-system livable units on different PLANETS, and also to better understand the necessary components to create independent life-supporting systems for humans. Shortsightedness? Hardly.

  • @lakermangmx
    @lakermangmx 15 років тому +1

    wiki : Marc Cooper wrote[that "the group that built, conceived, and directs the Biosphere project is not a group of high-tech researchers on the cutting edge of science but a clique of recycled theater performers that evolved out of an authoritarian and decidedly non-scientific personality cult".

  • @mmpoggs2033
    @mmpoggs2033 6 років тому

    So we are in a dome!? I thought so!

  • @pongfonge
    @pongfonge 15 років тому +2

    Why do we make coffins so comfortable? They always look pretty damn cozy and they cost a fortune, but I'm not quite sure what the benefit is. I think I'll go with cremation and save some space for the living.
    PS
    That solar radiation will cause some gnarly sun burns. I think there are some ways colonists could cope on Mars but it's all theory. One low tech solution is burying the colonies under a few layers of Martian soil. This could help but well need more than this.

    • @chris-2496
      @chris-2496 3 роки тому

      You won't go with anything when you are dead - you will be dead. The cosy coffin is for those saying goodbye to the deceased to honour the memory. The dead have not much say in this.

  • @flatearth2461
    @flatearth2461 6 років тому +17

    how on earth anybody survived 2yrs with her... painful

  • @bbjames3430
    @bbjames3430 4 роки тому

    8L

  • @bogdan2501
    @bogdan2501 7 років тому +23

    Why yell? I really wanted to hear the story... too bad

    • @baronvonbasscat
      @baronvonbasscat 6 років тому +6

      same
      : (
      that strident voice is probably what doomed the Biosphere 2.
      BTW they should have called it Biosphere 1 because we live on Earth yo, not "B.S.1" ; D

    • @siriusleigh24
      @siriusleigh24 3 роки тому

      I thought the same. Obviously doesn't know what the microphone was for.

  • @Mattmlo
    @Mattmlo 15 років тому +1

    Bio Dome!!!

  • @madam.bovary.
    @madam.bovary. 7 місяців тому

    Funda Hocamdan duyup geldim 🙋‍♀️

  • @Indeterminite
    @Indeterminite 3 роки тому +2

    I feel so sorry for these people. I couldn't imagine living in a glass dome for 2 years with this woman

  • @heartobefelt
    @heartobefelt 12 років тому +6

    If concrete inside the biosphere contributed to the loss of Oxygen , then what is the affect of the concrete jungles we live in ? cities use billions of tons of concrete , should we immediately start coating it all with a sealing membrane and change building codes to negate this problem ?
    after all . everything we do on earth affects the future of our biosphere

    • @startnotionstopmotionbob9878
      @startnotionstopmotionbob9878 6 років тому

      You apparently didn't listen to what she actually said, the concrete didn't absorb it directly/on it's own.

    • @scientchahming5
      @scientchahming5 2 роки тому

      The difference is that cities are open air,

    • @luminatrixfanfiction
      @luminatrixfanfiction Рік тому

      I think there's a misconception here. Concrete absorbs CO2 to form Calcium Carbonate. It's not absorbing oxygen, just CO2 but that is equally bad because, plants need CO2 to survive and if concrete absorbs it, then you start to get a biosphere system failure. The main culprit of what was causing loss of oxygen was due to bacterial microbes in the soil which was consuming oxygen.

  • @InefficientElectron
    @InefficientElectron 11 років тому

    They controlled everything that went in the biosphere, including microorganisms. It would have been stupid to bring in contaminants at that point. You laughed out of ignorance.

  • @michaelmuturi12
    @michaelmuturi12 4 роки тому +5

    one easy way to gauge the intellectual substance of Ted talk or you tube video; just look at the comments, this talk was a joke, as an ecologist, it's disappointing to see such a grand experiment wasted on people who were not serious, by the looks of it she was there for the thrills

  • @javenbarber311
    @javenbarber311 8 років тому +13

    This chick was the first failure for the Biosphere 2 project... she cut the tip of her finger off and had to leave the Biosphere for medical help within the first 2 weeks of it's inception.

    • @annebruecks7381
      @annebruecks7381 2 роки тому

      On Mars she would have just had to deal with the missing finger.

  • @MrBuddha974
    @MrBuddha974 5 років тому

    It’s better better to fail here than up there.

  • @JustHuntr
    @JustHuntr Рік тому

    wow.. so the concrete is whats going to kill the earth? Basically?

  • @---ROWLEY---
    @---ROWLEY--- 3 роки тому

    I want to do it solitary.

  • @matthewr3570
    @matthewr3570 3 роки тому

    They made a comedy movie about this didn’t they?

  • @timothywilliams1359
    @timothywilliams1359 4 роки тому +2

    I cannot imagine the horror of being cooped up with this woman for two years. But at least we know where the seven tons of oxygen went. She blabbed it all away.

  • @abc3902
    @abc3902 5 років тому +6

    the voice…………...slow down.

  • @ratholin
    @ratholin 15 років тому +1

    Yeah there should be a colonize and terraform game. Did you ever play sim earth back in the old days?