Wish this video didn’t paint the Biosphere in such a negative light. It was a brilliant idea, an amazing feat of science, and we learned absolutely invaluable information about our own world that we couldn’t have gained otherwise.
just because it failed doesnt mean it was a bad idea. Showing that something doesnt work or is more difficulat than thought is actually scientifically almost as valuable as showing that something does work.
No, my point is, its still progress, because it shows that it doesnt work THIS WAY, which you didnt know before you did it, so it wasnt a bad idea, it just doesnt work this way, which is still more knowledge than before
Yes, but let's be real. They should have sent competent scientists in for one thing. For another, they should have been honest about the equipment they were using. Finally, they haven't been forthcoming with sufficient data about what happened during those two years. Doing it the way they did made it all useless. It was a good idea, but there's a right way to run such an experiment and they blew it.
As a child, I remember Biosphere 2 being included in my textbook as one of the goalposts to be reached before space exploration. How fascinating to hear how it actually turned out.
I'm a Brit. As part of my degree I studied Oceanography and Ecosystems, so when in Arizona in 96 I visited there. The tour was good. The guide explained what the idea was, what went wrong, what went right, and the lessons learned. She answered any questions as well as she could, and went and found someone who could when she couldn't. It was a large experiment, which discovered things not thought of (eg, the imported soil oxidising, using the oxygen faster than it could be produced causing the CO2 build up) proved some others and of course disproved others. Research was ongoing and still is I believe. The lessons learned will have been taken note of by NASA and other Space agencies in planning future trips to the Moon and Mars. However, the video is typical media, who live by the rule - 'Never let the truth get in the way of sensationalising a story'
Based strictly on the contents of this video, I feel it deserves a more objective edit when it comes to Mark Cooper's claim that the driving philosophy was cultish. The brief mention cherry picks the terms "doom" and "cosmic immortality", and in doing so misconstrues the common and uncontroversial viewpoint laid out in the very source text shown onscreen--that the Earth is a single point of failure for the species--so severely as to broadly characterize these people as insane.
I just visited in Oct 2019 and the studies they are conducting are both important and fascinating. “The lung” in and of itself was extraordinary. I did not know the back story about the original inhabitants so this report was enlightening. That part of Biosphere 2’s history is pretty glorified in the exhibits there; described as more of a NASA type experiment.
Is it me, or is the narrator of this hella skeptical? Also, when Cooper says "They weren't God's chosen people; they were their own chosen people," I cackled.
And the biggest issues it found was people simply cannot get along. Bio2 found answers to so many questions that weren’t even comprehended at its time, it opened wide the need to understand to supplementary and consequential not just the core project The hyperactivity of a biosphererians (subsequently also demonstrated in other projects they’ve been involved with) also caused huge issues and injury
The problems were many. The concrete used in construction was not allowed to cure properly, for example; that meant it absorbed oxygen, creating a hypoxic situation for the "crew". In addition, the structure was not large enough to achieve the effect of cleansing its' own atmosphere or did it have enough room to feed its' occupants. The "crew" were vastly undereducated as well, with most getting their "degrees" from a mail order company that was totally fraudulent, they were no more than High School graduates, with one exception; they were "New Agers", modern hippies out to prove a social point, rather than to gather serious scientific data; even if they tried, they simply were not educated enough to do anything more than read gauges and write down the data. Finally, there was no psychological as in NASA crews. They were just people in the group that the builder knew and were willing to do it.. Throw in a couple of attractive women along with the package(to assure jealousy among the men) and this was doomed from day 1. Some of the crew HAVE gone on to do real science, though. Jayne Poynter, the attractive brunette that cut off part of her fingers, is a pioneer in life support technology, for example
Almost right, it was the excessive compost added in the soils that was absorbing too much oxygen as it biodegraded, thus releasing CO2, and even the CO2 disappeared because that was being absorbed by the fresh concrete. In the second round of sealed trial, the concrete was sealed, most of the excessive amounts of compost had already biodegraded, and the atmosphere was more stable. I don't know if they continued to use CO@ scrubbers in the second trial, but they did grow all of their food successfully, so it was a vast improvement.
The Biopshere I and II scientific experiment is a success even though it is falsely called a failure but we did learned a lot from it's mistakes and errors, overlooked problems and potential problems, and unexpected things and other unknowns that keeps on cropping up over it's 2 year time period and should had never been discontinued FOR WE HAVE THE NEED TO KEEP ON LEARNING FROM THE UNKNOWNS AND UNEXPECTED THAT WILL KEEP ON CROPPING UP AND THEN FINDING OUT ON HOW THEY OCCURRED AND HOW TO FIX THEM, MITIGATE THEM, COMPENSATE FOR THEM, AND PERMANENTLY SOLVE THEM EVENTUALLY. The scientific experimental Biosphere I and II is not a failure but a resounding success for no matter how much engineering and scientific thought was given in designing it and building it it gave us a lot of lessons to LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES AND FROM OUR ERRORS, for Biosphere I and II is a testing scientific R&D experiment to test everything what was done into it and to give it more than enough time, 2 years in fact, to find out what are the errors and mistakes that we made, what are the problems that we overlooked and WHAT ARE THE FUTURE UNEXPECTED PROBLEMS THAT WILL CROP UP DURING THAT 2 YEAR EXPERIMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE STUDIED AND REMEDIED AND RECTIFIED AND CORRECTED. The greatest mistake of the Biosphere I and II project is that they WRONGLY DISCONTINUED THE EXPERIMENT BECAUSE ONLY BY CONTINUING THE EXPERIMENT WE CAN LEARN MUCH MORE FROM OUR MISTAKES, ERRORS, THE OVERLOOKED PROBLEMS AND OVERLOOKED POTENTIAL PROBLEMS, DESIGN FLAWS, AND MOST IMPORTANT THE FUTURE UNEXPECTED PROBLEMS THAT WILL CROPPED UP AND WILL KEEP ON CROPPING UP OVER THE NEXT MANY YEARS BEYOND THE 2 YEAR TIME PERIOD OF THE EXPERIMENT. It is those future and unexpected problems that will crop up over the next many years beyond the 2 year time period of the Biosphere I and II experiment that we need to wait for patiently and persistently FOR IT IS THE UNEXPECTED PROBLEMS AND FLAWS are what really matter the most! IT IS THE UNEXPECTED PROBLEMS AND FLAWS are what really matter the most! From them we can keep on continuing the process of patiently and persistently and perseveringly wait for them to come up "UNEXPECTEDLY FOR THERE ARE STILL MANY UNKNOWNS THAT WE STILL NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR PLANET'S BIOSPHERE ITSELF! As the unknowns and unexpected things keeps on cropping up out of nowhere beyond the 2 year time period we will also be simultaneously busy fixing them up, rectifying the problems, correcting the problems, compensating for any design flaws and errors, repairing any overlooked engineering problems, and so forth and so on for the list is almost virtually endless and keep on continuing the experiment "PATIENTLY" until 50 years to 100 years has passed without any problems AND AT THE SAME TIME KEEPING WRITTEN RECORDS OF EVERYTHING THAT IS OCCURRING INSIDE THE BIOSPHERE 1 AND BIOSPHERE II. It is only in this way that we can hope to learn all of the UNKNOWNS AND UNEXPECTED THINGS THAT NEEDS TO BE IRONED OUT. Once all the kinks are ironed out, then a second one will be built based on the 1st Biosphere I and Biosphere II to see if we can replicate the entire process correctly down to the last living and beneficial microorganism.
I think this is something we should revisit soon. If we could have working biosphere's not only could we apply it to make cities of the future, where we could potentially marry together nature and technology to reduce the impact we're currently having on the planet but also we could look at having proper space stations on the Moon or Mars. It's not a super flawed idea, the technology and the science just wasn't there in the early 90s but we do may have the potential to make it work now.
It would fail even worse. Just look at what's happening with Tesla now. Elon is a crackpot nutcase with an ego bigger than the cult leader in this video.
Viva Los biosphere!!! Ed Bass is Sid Bass brother, for many years this family ran The Walt Disney Company as their largest shareholders. They were responsible for saving the company from being sold off into pieces when they recruited Michael Eisner and Frank Wells.
I am the architect of biosphere 2. I designed that building whenNASA and the u of a science and optics lab in second grade at Prince elementary School in Tucson arizona.
Why did you leave out so much? Importantly, and relevantly, the new CEO after John was Steve Bannon. And it was a success when he took over. He has the midas touch, love him or hate him. He deserves credit where its due!
The earth is officially doomed and we do need to be extraterrestrial in order survive. Also, there was an issue with the oxygen pathway and it drove them kinda mad. They eventually figured it out and we’re back to “normal”
The ingenuity, inventivity, balls of Americans are a wonder, if only it could be joined to the rationality of Europe and not be subject to the media propaganda machine.... I love the ideas behind it, but the moment it becomes sensational, something that seems a requirement in America, things tend to get skewed.
As it has disappeared from the media, biosphere still has tons of research value, as indicated, it just failed as a smaller recreation of the world.... For those interested, Veritassium did a video on it this year. And while I have yet to do this myself, I am sure a ton of papers are written about it, or did research in it....
a huge costly failure, but hopefully they have learned something. If this was a great thing, why no Biosphere 3? if it was so important? sound like they haven't solved some of the mysteries involved.
why did no one made this project work after the first failure? the main problem was the concrete absorbing oxygen and some microbes who did other stuff then thay shod.. and they did not monitor everything properly.. why noone continued?
So it like doing the space station but on earth...But they should have had group A and group B. Scientists in one group and average people in the other. Also i think the project should be redone. it seem interesting but guess this can just be done on space station or vs people who live out in villages who grow there own farm etc. Ill have to see if there a longer documentary about this.
This "documentary" gives all the gossips and none of the facts. NYT should have interviewed Allen before dismissing many scientists' years of hard work.
except for this one, i have liked all retro reports so far. This one is extremely biased. Them having lived in a commune, is not necessarily a bad thing, that doesnt mean it was a cult, it just means they were a group of like minded people living together. Please whats the difference to friends sharing an apartment, to artists living in a house together, whats the difference to what society is. And the philosophy of believing that this earth might be doomed and the human race will have to live on (forever, hence immortality of the species) in space, is not that far fetched after all, looking at global warming, the garbage floating in the oceans, and huge amounts of radioactive waste. Well, and noone said that THEY should be the ones to continue the human race, they just did an experiment if IT WAS POSSIBLE. thats completely different after all, and not that arrogant and egocentric really.
I agree that their having lived on a commune could be irrelevant. However, their having almost no scientific training is extremely relevant. They were chosen for the experiment for the worst reason - they were buddies with the guy who conceived of it. Very bad "science", if you can call it science at all.
Ok but seriously, the one dude's response to the cult thing was basically him saying 'other people could be considered cults by those standards'. He didn't actually say they weren't one. Don't be so naive. lol
I think a lot of the space was under utilized. I saw another video about this that said that there was a desert ecosystem area. While useful for what it became, it's quite useless for its original purpose. Not to mention you have tall buildings filled with mostly empty space. Why not have more plants in there? Get more oxygen! Not to mention select your plants wisely. Not all plants are equal in terms of oxygen production. Also their means of farming.... Should've done aquaponics. At least hydroponics..... Like this seemed to more be focused on recreating earth on a small scale than actually sustaining life. Granted some of the farming advances weren't well known or hadn't come to be yet, such as vertical farming, but still. I think with modern knowledge and a more direct goal, it would be achievable.
if they could grow hemp that would solve there protein shortages. also, of course they had issues with co2, the ocean section of the biosphere is way too small. the earth gets most of its oxygen from algae in the ocean which covers a large majority of the earth. the ocean section should be the largest in a biosphere. all this being said, its still an incredible project even with its issues. I can't wait to visit it again and i hope to see other similar projects in the near future
The problem was the scale, as you can make a sealed aquarium that receives only light, and supports a fish or two. The issues with the concrete, compost, etc, would have been obvious if they tried it first with a small enclosure with a few small animals...
They want to test if it`s possible to build a secound Habitat outside of the earth. The resuld is, it is verry difficult to build it for 8 people. And we see what happend if climate Change become evident to the biosphere and to little Societies too.
"The only thing that was in the bag was like some drawings" *lol you're like lying you like know that right? Because we all do.* Whatever you had in there was something to help you guys. Equipment I'm guessing, most likely medical supplies; including not only what she'll need for that finger, but what they'll need should any more accidents like that arise. #liarliarpantsonfire
Do you think that you could live in and maintain a biosphere for 2 years, only coming out once and then bringing a single duffel bag of supplies back in? Could you go 7 days without eating anything that you bought from a grocery store? Those eight people went 2 years with only a single bag of supplies. I'd say that's pretty impressive.
I'm glad that they found a use for it.
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Wish this video didn’t paint the Biosphere in such a negative light. It was a brilliant idea, an amazing feat of science, and we learned absolutely invaluable information about our own world that we couldn’t have gained otherwise.
just because it failed doesnt mean it was a bad idea. Showing that something doesnt work or is more difficulat than thought is actually scientifically almost as valuable as showing that something does work.
it kind of does
No, my point is, its still progress, because it shows that it doesnt work THIS WAY, which you didnt know before you did it, so it wasnt a bad idea, it just doesnt work this way, which is still more knowledge than before
true, but arent they making a new one? bio 3?
Yes, but let's be real. They should have sent competent scientists in for one thing. For another, they should have been honest about the equipment they were using. Finally, they haven't been forthcoming with sufficient data about what happened during those two years.
Doing it the way they did made it all useless. It was a good idea, but there's a right way to run such an experiment and they blew it.
I think it could work very good plus: now we have hydroponia, Co2 Scrubbers (that just need electricity), high efficient solar panels, etc.
As a child, I remember Biosphere 2 being included in my textbook as one of the goalposts to be reached before space exploration. How fascinating to hear how it actually turned out.
The concept is excellent. You simply make adjustments until you get it right.
I'm a Brit. As part of my degree I studied Oceanography and Ecosystems, so when in Arizona in 96 I visited there. The tour was good. The guide explained what the idea was, what went wrong, what went right, and the lessons learned. She answered any questions as well as she could, and went and found someone who could when she couldn't. It was a large experiment, which discovered things not thought of (eg, the imported soil oxidising, using the oxygen faster than it could be produced causing the CO2 build up) proved some others and of course disproved others. Research was ongoing and still is I believe. The lessons learned will have been taken note of by NASA and other Space agencies in planning future trips to the Moon and Mars. However, the video is typical media, who live by the rule - 'Never let the truth get in the way of sensationalising a story'
Moral of the story: One scientist’s trash is another scientist’s treasure.
Based strictly on the contents of this video, I feel it deserves a more objective edit when it comes to Mark Cooper's claim that the driving philosophy was cultish. The brief mention cherry picks the terms "doom" and "cosmic immortality", and in doing so misconstrues the common and uncontroversial viewpoint laid out in the very source text shown onscreen--that the Earth is a single point of failure for the species--so severely as to broadly characterize these people as insane.
I just visited in Oct 2019 and the studies they are conducting are both important and fascinating. “The lung” in and of itself was extraordinary. I did not know the back story about the original inhabitants so this report was enlightening. That part of Biosphere 2’s history is pretty glorified in the exhibits there; described as more of a NASA type experiment.
I could watch these reports all day. There so interesting
Is it me, or is the narrator of this hella skeptical? Also, when Cooper says "They weren't God's chosen people; they were their own chosen people," I cackled.
That was funny
If it has Highspeed-Internet... I want to live there.
underrated experiment!
What an under rated series.
And the biggest issues it found was people simply cannot get along.
Bio2 found answers to so many questions that weren’t even comprehended at its time, it opened wide the need to understand to supplementary and consequential not just the core project
The hyperactivity of a biosphererians (subsequently also demonstrated in other projects they’ve been involved with) also caused huge issues and injury
I really dont see what was wrong with John Allan's theory. It can't hurt to have that as your backbone of a theory.
The Eden Project in Cornwall is another fantastic bio project inside some huge bubbles. I spent a wonderful day there.
i realized b1 is the earth itself actually...
At least it gave the world BioDome, which coincidentally is the only reason I even know about any of this. ;)
Same, sadly...
The problems were many. The concrete used in construction was not allowed to cure properly, for example; that meant it absorbed oxygen, creating a hypoxic situation for the "crew". In addition, the structure was not large enough to achieve the effect of cleansing its' own atmosphere or did it have enough room to feed its' occupants.
The "crew" were vastly undereducated as well, with most getting their "degrees" from a mail order company that was totally fraudulent, they were no more than High School graduates, with one exception; they were "New Agers", modern hippies out to prove a social point, rather than to gather serious scientific data; even if they tried, they simply were not educated enough to do anything more than read gauges and write down the data.
Finally, there was no psychological as in NASA crews. They were just people in the group that the builder knew and were willing to do it..
Throw in a couple of attractive women along with the package(to assure jealousy among the men) and this was doomed from day 1.
Some of the crew HAVE gone on to do real science, though. Jayne Poynter, the attractive brunette that cut off part of her fingers, is a pioneer in life support technology, for example
Almost right, it was the excessive compost added in the soils that was absorbing too much oxygen as it biodegraded, thus releasing CO2, and even the CO2 disappeared because that was being absorbed by the fresh concrete. In the second round of sealed trial, the concrete was sealed, most of the excessive amounts of compost had already biodegraded, and the atmosphere was more stable. I don't know if they continued to use CO@ scrubbers in the second trial, but they did grow all of their food successfully, so it was a vast improvement.
The Biopshere I and II scientific experiment is a success even though it is falsely called a failure but we did learned a lot from it's mistakes and errors, overlooked problems and potential problems, and unexpected things and other unknowns that keeps on cropping up over it's 2 year time period and should had never been discontinued FOR WE HAVE THE NEED TO KEEP ON LEARNING FROM THE UNKNOWNS AND UNEXPECTED THAT WILL KEEP ON CROPPING UP AND THEN FINDING OUT ON HOW THEY OCCURRED AND HOW TO FIX THEM, MITIGATE THEM, COMPENSATE FOR THEM, AND PERMANENTLY SOLVE THEM EVENTUALLY.
The scientific experimental Biosphere I and II is not a failure but a resounding success for no matter how much engineering and scientific thought was given in designing it and building it it gave us a lot of lessons to LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES AND FROM OUR ERRORS, for Biosphere I and II is a testing scientific R&D experiment to test everything what was done into it and to give it more than enough time, 2 years in fact, to find out what are the errors and mistakes that we made, what are the problems that we overlooked and WHAT ARE THE FUTURE UNEXPECTED PROBLEMS THAT WILL CROP UP DURING THAT 2 YEAR EXPERIMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE STUDIED AND REMEDIED AND RECTIFIED AND CORRECTED.
The greatest mistake of the Biosphere I and II project is that they WRONGLY DISCONTINUED THE EXPERIMENT BECAUSE ONLY BY CONTINUING THE EXPERIMENT WE CAN LEARN MUCH MORE FROM OUR MISTAKES, ERRORS, THE OVERLOOKED PROBLEMS AND OVERLOOKED POTENTIAL PROBLEMS, DESIGN FLAWS, AND MOST IMPORTANT THE FUTURE UNEXPECTED PROBLEMS THAT WILL CROPPED UP AND WILL KEEP ON CROPPING UP OVER THE NEXT MANY YEARS BEYOND THE 2 YEAR TIME PERIOD OF THE EXPERIMENT.
It is those future and unexpected problems that will crop up over the next many years beyond the 2 year time period of the Biosphere I and II experiment that we need to wait for patiently and persistently FOR IT IS THE UNEXPECTED PROBLEMS AND FLAWS are what really matter the most! IT IS THE UNEXPECTED PROBLEMS AND FLAWS are what really matter the most! From them we can keep on continuing the process of patiently and persistently and perseveringly wait for them to come up "UNEXPECTEDLY FOR THERE ARE STILL MANY UNKNOWNS THAT WE STILL NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR PLANET'S BIOSPHERE ITSELF!
As the unknowns and unexpected things keeps on cropping up out of nowhere beyond the 2 year time period we will also be simultaneously busy fixing them up, rectifying the problems, correcting the problems, compensating for any design flaws and errors, repairing any overlooked engineering problems, and so forth and so on for the list is almost virtually endless and keep on continuing the experiment "PATIENTLY" until 50 years to 100 years has passed without any problems AND AT THE SAME TIME KEEPING WRITTEN RECORDS OF EVERYTHING THAT IS OCCURRING INSIDE THE BIOSPHERE 1 AND BIOSPHERE II. It is only in this way that we can hope to learn all of the UNKNOWNS AND UNEXPECTED THINGS THAT NEEDS TO BE IRONED OUT. Once all the kinks are ironed out, then a second one will be built based on the 1st Biosphere I and Biosphere II to see if we can replicate the entire process correctly down to the last living and beneficial microorganism.
I have become a big fan of the Retro Report!
I think this is something we should revisit soon. If we could have working biosphere's not only could we apply it to make cities of the future, where we could potentially marry together nature and technology to reduce the impact we're currently having on the planet but also we could look at having proper space stations on the Moon or Mars. It's not a super flawed idea, the technology and the science just wasn't there in the early 90s but we do may have the potential to make it work now.
An acre is needed for a four-person family.
This is a very nice place to visit.
Marc Cooper is proof of the importance of wearing a helmet while riding motorcycles.
Even failure yields useful information and a chance to learn something
Why does it matter if they had a CO2 scrubber? Does it only work on Earth? I feel like we were forming a colony we would have a device like that...
Imagine this in Elon musk hands, just saying
It would fail even worse. Just look at what's happening with Tesla now. Elon is a crackpot nutcase with an ego bigger than the cult leader in this video.
@@meerkat1954 say that again
God it'd be so crazy and go so wrong I'm imagining all the ways Twitter would rip it apart lol. It'd make a great movie.
meerkat1954 lmao aged poorly
jeremy bultron Cult to cult 👌🏻
Viva Los biosphere!!! Ed Bass is Sid Bass brother, for many years this family ran The Walt Disney Company as their largest shareholders. They were responsible for saving the company from being sold off into pieces when they recruited Michael Eisner and Frank Wells.
I am the architect of biosphere 2. I designed that building whenNASA and the u of a science and optics lab in second grade at Prince elementary School in Tucson arizona.
8:40 - "Since 1996, Biosphere 2 has produced over 150 scientific papers."
Just 150 papers!? That's very, very few. Far less than I would think.
Kenneth Stewart I wouldnt be surprised if the experiments in the Biosphere took a very long time to complete
+Kenneth Stewart for 20 years that's quite a bit of scientific contribution. More than almost any single researcher in their life time.
Published papers
Looks like something out of scifi? More like looks like something out of EPCOT.
Though, if it were at EPCOT, it would work.
It's so cool that it's being used for real science now.
bruh i thought this was just a movie
Looks like a Hunger Games arena
Very, very cool.
you should replace the sound of jane poynter talking with a sackfull of strangled cats being scraped across a blackboard, that would be less abrasive
Why did you leave out so much? Importantly, and relevantly, the new CEO after John was Steve Bannon. And it was a success when he took over. He has the midas touch, love him or hate him. He deserves credit where its due!
The earth is officially doomed and we do need to be extraterrestrial in order survive. Also, there was an issue with the oxygen pathway and it drove them kinda mad. They eventually figured it out and we’re back to “normal”
The ingenuity, inventivity, balls of Americans are a wonder, if only it could be joined to the rationality of Europe and not be subject to the media propaganda machine....
I love the ideas behind it, but the moment it becomes sensational, something that seems a requirement in America, things tend to get skewed.
As it has disappeared from the media, biosphere still has tons of research value, as indicated, it just failed as a smaller recreation of the world.... For those interested, Veritassium did a video on it this year. And while I have yet to do this myself, I am sure a ton of papers are written about it, or did research in it....
The current pace is good. Scientists are in control of biosphere 2 and are slowly reaching its intended purpose
do you have any idea how much it would cost to build that crap on another planet?!?
I clicked this on oh my god Pauly sure made his second biodome
Those weren't researchers, they were actors. If they were real researchers they would have probably been in there longer.
Inspired the greatest movie of all time.
The Dude HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA, nope.
What movie are you thinking of - Zardoz?
I'm a platypus!
A Shell in Ocean 🌊. Airbait 1,2,3. ✈. The Lost Circle....
The real story is pretty exhilarating I would say. I'm the one that can tell it like it really happened.
I'm here because of Rhett and Link:D
Me too
Same here
Good Mythical Morning Anyone?
Yes
hezbollah ? disraelis jew ? cano canuck.
a huge costly failure, but hopefully they have learned something. If this was a great thing, why no Biosphere 3? if it was so important? sound like they haven't solved some of the mysteries involved.
+Greg Howard I am in for Biosphere 3! Sounds awesome
but what happened to biosphere 1?
Biosphere 1 is Earth
Let's try again!! ^^
why did no one made this project work after the first failure?
the main problem was the concrete absorbing oxygen and some microbes who did other stuff then thay shod.. and they did not monitor everything properly..
why noone continued?
maybe it's just too expensive!
Because they also didn't do it legitly, before the project fully launched they added artificial air supplies, which still couldn't provide enough
Kalvis Kalniņš because, in secret, the participants went insane and starting killing, raping, and cannibalizing each other.
Because the searcher are from the play
It like the hire actor
Who is here after yes theory?
A lesson in what happens when journalism, science and post-religion morality mix.
I think I know where the next BioShock game will take place
Do any of these research papers recount the story of me architecting this building??
oh bs1 is the earth....
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im doing a project about this
its so cool to think about
whoa biodome. lol
They just need more greens
"Futuristic"
Africans turned this into a whole new idea and called it “Big Brother Africa”
so its truly possible to be like truman without even knowing
The real odyssey is those hair styles.
Poynter should never have gone back in.
Reminds me of the Dharma people from Lost haha
So it all worked out
hamas ? 9:44
WOWWWWWW
The whole bio-enclosure concept is fundamentally flawed. Be it expressed via dome, sphere, cube, or even the stately tetrahedron.
seen in times of covid 😷
the granola chick at 3:30 is wearing tie dye. can't believe this
So it like doing the space station but on earth...But they should have had group A and group B. Scientists in one group and average people in the other. Also i think the project should be redone. it seem interesting but guess this can just be done on space station or vs people who live out in villages who grow there own farm etc. Ill have to see if there a longer documentary about this.
This "documentary" gives all the gossips and none of the facts. NYT should have interviewed Allen before dismissing many scientists' years of hard work.
Earthship.
this is like The Real World on steroids
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except for this one, i have liked all retro reports so far. This one is extremely biased. Them having lived in a commune, is not necessarily a bad thing, that doesnt mean it was a cult, it just means they were a group of like minded people living together. Please whats the difference to friends sharing an apartment, to artists living in a house together, whats the difference to what society is. And the philosophy of believing that this earth might be doomed and the human race will have to live on (forever, hence immortality of the species) in space, is not that far fetched after all, looking at global warming, the garbage floating in the oceans, and huge amounts of radioactive waste. Well, and noone said that THEY should be the ones to continue the human race, they just did an experiment if IT WAS POSSIBLE. thats completely different after all, and not that arrogant and egocentric really.
I agree that their having lived on a commune could be irrelevant. However, their having almost no scientific training is extremely relevant. They were chosen for the experiment for the worst reason - they were buddies with the guy who conceived of it. Very bad "science", if you can call it science at all.
Ok but seriously, the one dude's response to the cult thing was basically him saying 'other people could be considered cults by those standards'. He didn't actually say they weren't one. Don't be so naive. lol
Yes, it does seem like a bit of deflection - but on the other hand, there's no real way for us to know.
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I think a lot of the space was under utilized. I saw another video about this that said that there was a desert ecosystem area. While useful for what it became, it's quite useless for its original purpose. Not to mention you have tall buildings filled with mostly empty space. Why not have more plants in there? Get more oxygen!
Not to mention select your plants wisely. Not all plants are equal in terms of oxygen production.
Also their means of farming.... Should've done aquaponics. At least hydroponics.....
Like this seemed to more be focused on recreating earth on a small scale than actually sustaining life.
Granted some of the farming advances weren't well known or hadn't come to be yet, such as vertical farming, but still.
I think with modern knowledge and a more direct goal, it would be achievable.
if they could grow hemp that would solve there protein shortages. also, of course they had issues with co2, the ocean section of the biosphere is way too small. the earth gets most of its oxygen from algae in the ocean which covers a large majority of the earth. the ocean section should be the largest in a biosphere. all this being said, its still an incredible project even with its issues. I can't wait to visit it again and i hope to see other similar projects in the near future
It is far better for a group of people to be their own chosen people than think they have been chosen by god... like some people we all know.
Vay anasını gardaş.
The problem was the scale, as you can make a sealed aquarium that receives only light, and supports a fish or two. The issues with the concrete, compost, etc, would have been obvious if they tried it first with a small enclosure with a few small animals...
You would go mad too if you were locked up with Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin
They want to test if it`s possible to build a secound Habitat outside of the earth. The resuld is, it is verry difficult to build it for 8 people. And we see what happend if climate Change become evident to the biosphere and to little Societies too.
Bio-Dome was a bigger shitstorm than Bio-Sphere 2
Still til this day I have to ask where are the black people at?!
Conjugal visits allowed?
Well they did have 8males and 8females, soooo
Yea, because she went back, got a real degree
Why they have not open KFC and Domino's inside Bio 2?
A Flop at the Box Office of Life
We all know this was gonna fail in the beginning and if they try it again, it will fail.
It failed cause bud and doyle didn't show up.
Wtf so biosphere 2 was just some crazy idea from a cult leader nice.
VIVA LOS BIODOME!!!!
"The only thing that was in the bag was like some drawings" *lol you're like lying you like know that right? Because we all do.* Whatever you had in there was something to help you guys. Equipment I'm guessing, most likely medical supplies; including not only what she'll need for that finger, but what they'll need should any more accidents like that arise.
#liarliarpantsonfire
Do you think that you could live in and maintain a biosphere for 2 years, only coming out once and then bringing a single duffel bag of supplies back in?
Could you go 7 days without eating anything that you bought from a grocery store?
Those eight people went 2 years with only a single bag of supplies. I'd say that's pretty impressive.
Too much educated fools when it's more common sense
I was gonna say... these guys are dressed like they're in a cult.
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