Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

[crudhousefull]

I am so glad Asians kicked white people out when they did peaceful as we are. Look at Africa...white people are still fucking with that continent. Wake up Africans! Kick the bastards out to make any real progress.

[CuriousNekosan]

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

[linnaa]

Biosphere is simply a joke. It is impossible to create a balanced biosphere, just gathering all creatures live in such a small area, still impossible even million times larger. It just neglected scale effect. So it doomed fail.

What makes it different to a normal diversified glasshouse? Now it is bearing science park to attract tourists to take back huge investment.

[GrayGuard]

Been there.

[Polybun]

good lord she is ugly

[eddiespotty]

Superb... Thanx uploader

[Todd82TA]

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?

[ZeranZeran]

I will never rake again.

[Thetrutv]

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

[CAIsMyCrack]

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

[worries]

$200 million and best scientific minds trying to keep 8 people alive= lasts only 24 months

we are adding 8 people/3sec to the planet= how long will this last?

[robdieselpower]

@worries good point!

[JUKIO01]

i heard they are using this for mars mission. that be cool to have a biosphere

[robdieselpower]

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

[Braxmetal]

the reeeaaaaaaaal biodome! heeheehee

[BarneyFlart]

What make me laugh is the way they enter the pod wearing crazy space suits from some bad movie.. Why the space suits? They weren't going anywhere.

[robdieselpower]

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

[BandytaCzasu]

Those small biospheres in jar really do work?

[robdieselpower]

@BandytaCzasu yes, they do. Try it!

[coturnix19]

Kioto protocols is a big shit. even bigger than the protocols of the elders of zion... same of a kind

[mrlowdangle]

interesting talk

kept expecting her to say something like 'so i told daddy to build me a new biosphere, right away! ..but i refused to use it because he didnt build one for horsey!'

[Abquid]

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.

[JennerPomo]

Needed gravity mite come from SEG's Iron core Magnet's spinning.

Charles Gitchell Jr.

Jenner Pomo Research/Earth/Space/

[JennerPomo]

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/

[ronkini123]

biosphere 2 makes you quite hideous...

[smileymiley1miles]

NO ONE wants to live in a dome, BUT we will have no choice in the future, so i think that they should keep trying to build the perfect one, but still try and create atomsphere on planet Mars

[coturnix19]

people will stop reproducing if everyone got a TV... or internet access)

[chawk111]

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

[Mikeunderscore]

Why the hell are people so fascinated with building colonies on the moon? and Mars? I don't know a single person who would want to live in a bloody box for the rest of their life.

Please check out Mike Reynolds, "Garbage Warrior" documentary. Its the answer to living comfortably in the future.

Fuck the bio sphere, fuck the moon and forget about Mars. Earth is your home!!!!

[reptilezsweden]

The main interest in setting up colonies on other bodies in space is mining and research so no one will force you to live there, relax

[addmoreice]

essentially the earth is fucked is why.

the chances of us outliving any man made catastraphy is small but not impossible (after all if we made the problem we could potentially fix it).

the problem is that there are NON man made catastraphies which could destroy life as we know it. just because a billion to one russian roulette is good odds...doesn't mean you want to trust your species existance to it....especially if you have no choice but to forever pull the trigger.

[baronmathot]

Earth isn't going to last much longer at the rate we are destroying it. ANd then we'll move to another planet and destroy that one.

[Mikeunderscore]

We are humans! we can not live anywhere else but here. Do you honestly think that we can just separate ourselfs from the land that we are quite literally made from? Give me a break! We aren't destroying the planet I assure you, our way of life is making it difficult for us to survive, that's it. Once we're gone the planet isn't destroyed.

[Kirilltraceur]

Rewild

read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

[pongfonge]

Hello, I'm Chris and I think Boxes rock!. Now you know one. In any event, it's a good idea if you want to insure the survival of the speceis (not that I do). If we stay on Earth we will eventualy go the way of the dinasaurs. An impact with another body is going to happen. It could be tommorrow it could be 1000 years from now but it will happen. The only way we will survive is if part of our population is on another planet.

[Mikeunderscore]

You are eventually going to go the way of the doe doe regardless, and I hear the most comfortable box is a coffin, have fun.

[pongfonge]

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.

[tomamil]

i would want to live in a bloody box if it was on the moon...

[Mikeunderscore]

Have you heard of solar radiation? Earth has this lovely thing called a magnetic field that protects its inhabitants from solar radiation, the moon dose not.

[JeffreySchollar]

I reckon they put her in Biosphere 2 to get rid of her for 2 years. Man she's annoying.

Saying that, I think the work that she and her colleagues have done are great steps towards sustainability on Earth.

[pinochet222]

so she's already run out of oxygen once... she has experience LOL

[Mattmlo]

Bio Dome!!!

[sillyhead34]

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.

[bmed19]

control is an illusion. u never control anything. u just get the perception that u are in control. whether ur living right off nature or organized industry u are part of a unpredicatble and complex system. at least with industy u are guaranteed food each and every day. with nature, ur relying on a system with low yeilds, interspecies competiton etc. spend a couple weeks in this "pure" life and u'll quickly realize that life isnt so honorable or exhilarating

[TimeLord6646]

well said

[branboom]

that last 20 min must have been hell.

[747dog]

......The untold story is it all fell apart... they could not get along with each other...

[Elephantintheroom01]

They should have had a fight to the death just like the klingons.

Da da da DADADADA da du da da!

(Meanwhile; outside, no sound)

[bmed19]

they prolly got tired of their orgies.

[Cosmoline]

After about an hour of that I'd be on the phone "How many goats for a #@$# pizza."

[alexandras83]

funniest thing i've read on youtube!!!

[fogdragon23]

Um I'm not an expert about biospheres, so I guess, what are they for? *shrug*

[Animalll2003lll]

geodesic domes, bucky balls, jurassic park, archologies in sim city XXXDDD FUNNNN BIOSPHERES RULE!!! closed little biospheres to colonise space. that's going to be fun. biospheres evoke biodiversity, sustainability, technology and space conquest. that's why I like them from an artistic point of view :))) the best music to make you think of biodomes is steve reich's minimalist music, TED should adopt it as their theme music hehe

[Animalll2003lll]

so yeah biodomes are more of an ideological product. the reason they exist is I think more esthetic than really their utility. they're 'esthetic memes', like a successful piece of art that became pop culture.

[Animalll2003lll]

wow, re-reading, that was a weird reaction lol. I guess I identify a lot with that discovery I made that geodesic domes are a 'vibe', a meme, a catchy idea that is present under many forms (jurassic park, archologies in sim city, etc.) that represents/ is adapted to an ideology. I guess I'm a meme nerd, that's it. write me if you have anything to say about memes, I'll be glad to hear you.

[bmed19]

biospheres are not sustainable. not in relation to humans at least. nature cannot convert our wastes into new biomass at the rate we convert biomass into waste. we'll end up with an accumulation of waste and we would be eating away at the natural cpaital that sustains us.

[Animalll2003lll]

yeah, sure! what you're saying is not contradicting what I said. I said biospheres are mostly just a 'nice idea'. it's a catchy concept, for what it evokes, but less for what it does. indeed, a biosphere is a pretty useless thing. BUT it has catched a zeitgeist, an era, an ideology. that's why I compared biodomes and geodesic domes to a kind of "piece of minimalist art that turned pop culture". btw minimalist music evokes geodesic domes to many ppl. I wrote about this in my master's thesis.

[bmed19]

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

[Animalll2003lll]

bio-dome... the movie XXXDDDD

I love biosphere and geodesic domes it'S such an icon,; I think it's basically the product of an ideology--it's a vibe, a way of living, that's why there kind of corny and a bit useless but so.... nice and profound. and they make you like science.

4 men and 4 women .... XDDDD bio-dome the movie lolloolol.

[adamredwine]

Growing the plants on the moon is, in my opinion, one of the most inspiring acts I've heard of in recent years. Though the shrimp farm bit was interesting also.

[JustinHSabaj]

ha! the yogis had it right!

[HabitsofLife]

Jeez her voice is annoying!

[Cypherson]

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

[metsesell]

yes, pls don't lock me in a biosphere with this woman :p she uses all the oxygen by talking so fast.

Well actually it's a great video and experiment :p

[KARIN094]

I never use a rake. But, if I did not mow, I would have a jungle here, literally! Weeds grow to six feet tall here. Snakes (6 foot rattlers), alligators and large snapping turtles abound! I guess I could get about 25 goats. That should do it! Of course, in the winter months it will cost me plenty to feed them.

[popaddict]

I'm so going to throw away my rake and lawn mower in the name ecology. I've been trying to find an excuse for not mowing the lawn for ages!

[silversobe]

Hemp could provide the entire world with food, clothing, shelter, fuel, and medicine.

[JeremyGViking]

AND A KILLER BUZZ!! lol

Thats very true though.

[lwanatt]

it almost makes one believe in god, and to think our government would outlaw it, its an unspeakable crime and they call us the criminals!

[silversobe]

The people need to govern themselves. Find their god from within. Bring on a new renaissance.

[lwanatt]

democracy isnt a new idea people just need to demand it, i demand democracy now!

[Chemicalogic]

How about we not fuck up Biosphere 1, thus negating the need for Biosphere 2--typical human shortsightedness: spend one's life fixing the symptoms while almost totally ignoring the problems.

[cyphaflip]

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.

[Chemicalogic]

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.

[jasonlajoie]

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.

[thebeautywithin678]

It is an interesting topic to think about, but it enlightens the facts that we are no closer to figuring out life on Mars or the Moon, than we were over a century ago. BS 2 is a great experiment, but it is still a failure by the factor of losing oxygen, and of course it will take time to improve through another biosphere experiment that is successful in sustaining human life, and not just plants & animals.

[funnyguise]

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?

[Kiddolinfen09]

Cool bu the rvoice is like a chainsaw... I'm being stoic getting through this 16 minutes vid... can you imagine to years with YEAAAAAAARCH!!!!

[armygreen314]

BaHAHAHAHAHA

[morelshaman]

I was captivated by BS II when it was being designed & while used - i was devastated when they had to open up to let in fresh air. FAILURE. When so briefly mentions this it reduces the experiment to mere data gathering. I had thought w/ spaceflight & various space stations these problems had been solved. Alas we are much farther from a life on Mars or the Moon than we have been led to believe for so long.

Yes, breath connects us & BS I is great, but we need to figure out how to export US.

[littleoutrage]

Thank you Jane Poynter.

[planetoperator]

..as she jumps into her lexus.

[ahcult]

she stumbles an falls directly into a pile of horse shit

[popaddict]

LOL

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

[1schwererziehbar1]

best ted talk in months.

[lakermangmx]

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".

[lakermangmx]

how big experiment ! how big accomplishment !! The whole environment, the ppl in there survived this chick.

[lakermangmx]

..until the oxigen finally gave it up, and decided to hide itself inside the concrete

[Zabakiller]

14:20 this picture is so wrong xD  the dark part of earth should block the view on the stars behind it...

[E1GHTY8]

excellent observation

[MarkuswithanM]

Hahah what were they thinking

[LordTerror56]

"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.

[Zabakiller]

No =) thats a milky way xD

[ravishethwala]

one of the best.. TEDs

[gledalka]

amazing!

[xXAkridXx]

Just think, some carbon in your poop could end up in the breath of the Jonas brothers.

[farnium]

......my god.

[sausage4mash]

you have inspired me too poop more , thank you

[machmud321]

haahahahah

[xXAkridXx]

Holding it in helps nothing.

[yared94]

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

[sausage4mash]

that biosphere project seemed very unscientific

[hutchings000]

how so???

[websnarf]

It produced no usable scientific results.

[sausage4mash]

it smacks of a publicty stunt ,I'm sure the 1st moon base would have a few plants ,very basic eco system due to pay load restrictions ,this whole project just seems wrong ,no doubt they had to glam it up to get the funding .

[ratholin]

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

[LuckyChatt]

Wouldn't it be awesome with a simcity like computergame where you start as a small colony on a new planet in a biosphere, where you had to expand all awhile you keep CO2 and O2 levels steady and make sure there is food and so forth,, id find such game cool and a new look at the simulator genre,, also it would benefit the development of biospheres :D

[ratholin]

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

[LiquidFriction]

lol its called Spore :P

[gledalka]

awesome idea!! :)

[conoba]

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

[int3rl0per]

That, and whale sperm and fish feces.

[Mastikator]

Cool

[cosy18]

lol stone "eat" oxygen

[qpwnsall]

sounds like it was an epic fail

[niniomigrania]

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

[qpwnsall]

true

[xXAkridXx]

Failures are an important part of scientific progress.

[qpwnsall]

indeed

[robdieselpower]

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

[invisiblebears]

Total Recall.

[anotherelvis]

The biosphere was never fully sealed. They had problems with ant trails going through leaks in the wall.

[Henrin]

nice

[eatingfatty]

now that is awesome!

[grraadd]

man-made biosphere... must be evil ;-P

[zombiesmasher]

This was an incredible TED, very inspirational.

[bvlahos23]

shes on drugs

[TheOtherSide100]

In the future, everyone has a British accent.

Even The Wee-zuh-uhllll, buh-deeee

[TheRightDecision]

awesome!

[Sonic88Reducer]

Noiiiccee i want more pauly shore