Biosphere was a complete reverse success....it promulgated the idea that multiple ecosystems can thrive in a artificially sustained, ego-driven project populated with attractive people in blue suits and Bass brother money.
@lolol860 because the air is more condense and its very healthy. Fruits and veggies become pretty big and if you appearantly cut yourself in this biosphere, it will be alright in just an hour. Air is the source of life and growth :)))
I was going to build a biosphere also when I considered all the herbicides/ pesticides which is sprayed over grain fields, but now I know that the solution to the problem of poisonous chemicals is to preserve the amazing Biosphere ONE we live on. I believe family size gardening, coupled with faith in the Christ of God is the way of the future.
The only thing that the Biosphere 2 project proved is that we truly do not have the knowledge necessary to balance an ecology within an archology. They would have died without help from the outside. Very humbling indeed.
@probe26 really?? am i going to have to be the one to say it? ok well WE are biosphere one, this is biosphere 2 which never worked out. there weren't TWO biosphere projects. ok? should have done your hw there buddy
Your kinda close.. I know that a few local species managed to sneak in during the building somehow, ants were one, they kinda took over the other ants and dominated, then started eating birds and other insects
Also the concrete dident get sealed properly for the first run, so it built up carbon calcinate i think which added to problems with excess carbon etc
@Jezath lol, "then started eating birds and other insects", pretty sure ants cant eat birds, nor are birds insects, but nice try. It didn't fail, they ended after two years like they said they would, they had to let in air because microbes were consuming it and the carbon dioxide was being absorbed by exposed concrete.
Ants can eat birds lol and do so at every opputunity in fact (depending on species)... I meant the ants dominated the other ant species and ate other insects that were in the biosphere..
I dident say it failed, not once i said it failed..
I was going over the couple things that went wrong.. like trapping local species inside and also the microbe/concrete problem..
As i said they overcame these problems for the 2nd expedition, which WAS cut short, due to management issues..
now the interesting thing is, how does the original biosphere (earth) deal with these problems on a wider scale.. How does the planet deal with its excess Co2 etc? If we know that it could be possible to apply it on a smaller scale to further help manage an enclosed system like this..
they didn't manage the problem they had to pump oxygen into the sphere from outside. there were too many biological chemical exchanges taking place on the ground level for proper photosynthetis the only way they could possibly have fixxed the issue would be to start from scratch.
Your kind of right, the first mission was completed and the tests revealed quite remarkable results.. One of the problems they had was a buildup of carbon in the atmosphere.. This was party caused by microbes in the soil and unsealed concrete.. they fixed this for the second mission, which ended up being cancelled due to managment issues
A neat idea, but this example is to driven by ideology, not science. If humans really wanted a self reliant human colony, then there would be no need for an entire ecosystem, only the essential plants and animals for human survival.
@Jezath Yeah... you got the ten to wenty trillion that might take... lol! and there is no advantage that cannot be gained over sending machines!... terraforming would be cheaper... yet more time consuming.
I think the advantage would be there from the get go, this is why there looking more into ecosystems in space than hydroponics.. I mean.. what ya gonna do with all the chemicals for hydroponics? with machines you also have the logistics and running costs in fuel etc..
I dunno, but i think the advantage would be that once its in place its completly self sustainable, with machines or giant terraform devices, the fuel £$ would outweigh any £$ of transporting an ecosys there, if the correct form of transport and deployment is used.
i mean its prohibitly expensive just to run an artificial spacestation, with food deliverys, fuel deliverys, and all other logistics involved.. Having an ecosystem would solve almost all of these issues
@Jezath Humans are VERY expensive to 'run' in environments like space...
Machines are cheap in comparison.. personally yes I'd love to accept the notion that we could whisk people off to another planet... its very romantic and all that... but machines present a cheaper way of getting there... and indeed building a permanent presence for weak and I might add non-disposable biological entities like us!
Yep it will take a long time... but what can you do about that?
@Jezath it would take longer than a life time i don't think it's possible everyone just needs to give up the idea of abandoning our planet and start taking care of it.
@parsleysprigs I agree we need to start taking care of the planet we have, but with the population explosion and human footprint ( IE: how many acres of land it currently takes to support one human life) were just plain going to need more space. Which is out there in space, for that were going to need to find resources.. I saw some very interesting stuff on mars programs recently and interesting module designs, i forget the name of it, sorry..
The biosphere only had a few different biomes though, not all of them.. They dident have all the species... In fact they were pretty select in what they allowed in there.. Maybe it could be slimmed down more.. Its a shame the experiment was cut short before a proper second run, it would have been very interesting to see if they could have solved the problems of the first expedition..
an amazing program came across it in a lecture during grade recovery for biology too bad it failed if they could keep on proceeding and make it better maybe the dream of outerspace colonies on the moon or mars may be possible but that is just it they stopped the project cold turkey when it failed the first time
They dident stop the experiment because it failed, the real issues were alot deeper than that.. In fact they had fixed a few of the problems and actually sent a second team in.. it was during the early stages of this teams expidition, that the management fell apart
system that will provide humans with all the life support services that natural ecosystems produce for free. We have no alternative but to maintain the health of ecosystems on Earth.
Probably the most amazing huma experiment ever performed. In the end I think we can all declare it a failure, but plans are in the working right now for a renewal and we could see a new biosphere 2 sealing, and a new team for 2 years begining before the year 2012.
永遠のための２年間、お疲れ様でした♡
gogo996gt2 1 week ago
~BIODOME!
kilcommie 2 months ago
Once the electronics wear out it's back to plan b, go outside and try to live.
Zooni2 2 months ago in playlist Survival Bunkers
purple sticky punch
boogerlab 3 months ago
No pauly shore? Fake...
spotofblack 4 months ago
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2:41 holy shit that guy looks creepy!
sevegarza 4 months ago
os thats what you have to di for life without pollution I'll never be able to afford it.
ACizzla 4 months ago
One of the participants wrote: "We suffocated, starved and went mad". Hardly what I would call a success.
Haseeb2 4 months ago
@Haseeb2 Most would if made to grow their own food instead of driving up to a window.
jgmamba 1 month ago
Biosphere was a complete reverse success....it promulgated the idea that multiple ecosystems can thrive in a artificially sustained, ego-driven project populated with attractive people in blue suits and Bass brother money.
Pooderipup 4 months ago
BOYCOTT TUCSON AZ THEY KILLED MY DOG SUKI ON 1/5/2011
R.I.P. SUKI , WE MISS AND LOVE YOU!!
pimakilledsuki 7 months ago
@pimakilledsuki They did?
How?
mariomaster87 5 months ago
ive been here and IT WAS FREAKEN AWSOME!
hate4love1 9 months ago
2:09 is that a leopard pig?
MrTechgnome 10 months ago
why wold you weld inside a biosphere????
lolol860 10 months ago
@lolol860 because the air is more condense and its very healthy. Fruits and veggies become pretty big and if you appearantly cut yourself in this biosphere, it will be alright in just an hour. Air is the source of life and growth :)))
stnhristov 6 months ago
VIVA LAS BIO-DOME!
skyster517 10 months ago
If we can't live in that for more than 6 months, then we are not ready for the true exploration of the universe. Maybe in the next 1000 years.
We need to totally weed out fussing and fighting amongst ourselves first - and that would take a looooong time.
On another note, what's with the awful music?
vlweb3d 10 months ago
So "Biodome" was pretty accurate.
ashleykubacki0233 10 months ago
A disaster. Please reed philosopher Jean Baudrillard about Biosphere 2 proyect in his book "The Illusion of the End"
juliox326 11 months ago
I was going to build a biosphere also when I considered all the herbicides/ pesticides which is sprayed over grain fields, but now I know that the solution to the problem of poisonous chemicals is to preserve the amazing Biosphere ONE we live on. I believe family size gardening, coupled with faith in the Christ of God is the way of the future.
godistheanswer121212 11 months ago
beautiful proyect
jecks3 1 year ago
The only thing that the Biosphere 2 project proved is that we truly do not have the knowledge necessary to balance an ecology within an archology. They would have died without help from the outside. Very humbling indeed.
Archangel72467 1 year ago 4
wow cool!!!
I LOVE YOUR MOVIE =|)
bladirafairy 1 year ago
wow cool!!!
bladirafairy 1 year ago
I remember the first one failed. does anyone know if this one ever needed any outside help?
probe26 1 year ago
@probe26 really?? am i going to have to be the one to say it? ok well WE are biosphere one, this is biosphere 2 which never worked out. there weren't TWO biosphere projects. ok? should have done your hw there buddy
tetzelpretzel 1 year ago
we ca just be thankful that two idiots weren't in there smoking,or having a party,or trying to be funny,ruining the bio do..I mean sphere
Punkchic207 1 year ago
we ca just be thankful that two idiots weren't in there smoking,or having a party,or trying to be funny
Punkchic207 1 year ago
Biosphere 2 demonstrates to engineers how to build a future spaceship for planetary exploration.
ThisLittleAngel 1 year ago
always stupid music....Leave it out
danvango 1 year ago
i only watch it becaise i must do it 4 biology homefoks xD
R1iverSid3 1 year ago 12
@R1iverSid3
You might want to foucus less on Biology, and more on Remedial English class.
'Old enough to take Biology class, is old enough to know about capitalization, punctuation, and how to spell really hard words like "because".
SinnFein4ever 1 year ago
this is our last topic in biology .. very cool :)
liannah27 1 year ago
Hippies with too much cash...
eholler1 1 year ago
@agogaraxis
Your kinda close.. I know that a few local species managed to sneak in during the building somehow, ants were one, they kinda took over the other ants and dominated, then started eating birds and other insects
Jezath 2 years ago
Also the concrete dident get sealed properly for the first run, so it built up carbon calcinate i think which added to problems with excess carbon etc
Jezath 2 years ago
calcium carbonate i mean
Jezath 2 years ago
@Jezath lol, "then started eating birds and other insects", pretty sure ants cant eat birds, nor are birds insects, but nice try. It didn't fail, they ended after two years like they said they would, they had to let in air because microbes were consuming it and the carbon dioxide was being absorbed by exposed concrete.
xXKrazyLepreconXx 2 years ago
Ants can eat birds lol and do so at every opputunity in fact (depending on species)... I meant the ants dominated the other ant species and ate other insects that were in the biosphere..
I dident say it failed, not once i said it failed..
I was going over the couple things that went wrong.. like trapping local species inside and also the microbe/concrete problem..
As i said they overcame these problems for the 2nd expedition, which WAS cut short, due to management issues..
Jezath 2 years ago
now the interesting thing is, how does the original biosphere (earth) deal with these problems on a wider scale.. How does the planet deal with its excess Co2 etc? If we know that it could be possible to apply it on a smaller scale to further help manage an enclosed system like this..
Jezath 2 years ago
they didn't manage the problem they had to pump oxygen into the sphere from outside. there were too many biological chemical exchanges taking place on the ground level for proper photosynthetis the only way they could possibly have fixxed the issue would be to start from scratch.
parsleysprigs 1 year ago
@parsleysprigs my father constructed it
tobalynorberto 1 year ago
Your kind of right, the first mission was completed and the tests revealed quite remarkable results.. One of the problems they had was a buildup of carbon in the atmosphere.. This was party caused by microbes in the soil and unsealed concrete.. they fixed this for the second mission, which ended up being cancelled due to managment issues
Jezath 2 years ago
I very much doubt that it was a truly closed system.
PObserver 2 years ago
whatever the reason this is some amazing stuff, especially the fact that it began over 25 years ago
neverbshadee 2 years ago
the worst part was this music that was piped through all areas 24 hours a day
maha77 2 years ago 15
@maha77
really??
MrsNamelessly 1 year ago
@maha77 hahaha !
vefluffer 1 year ago
Quite fascinating stuff, this.:)
lanternchikk 2 years ago
A neat idea, but this example is to driven by ideology, not science. If humans really wanted a self reliant human colony, then there would be no need for an entire ecosystem, only the essential plants and animals for human survival.
jetsam50000 2 years ago
Keeping those plants and animals alive and able to reproduce requires an ecosystem.
sinak12345 2 years ago
Yes but it doesn't necessary need to be as complex as a real ecosystem. But given enough room, it would be nicer.
jetsam50000 2 years ago
there would be on planets like mars, or if there is atomic radiation.
myztic123 2 years ago
yes but you can't ship a whole eco system to mars... and that was the ultimate purpose.
MumblingMickey 2 years ago
its perfectly feasible to ship an ecosystem to mars.. Even with todays tech, however it would be extremly expensive
Jezath 2 years ago
@Jezath Yeah... you got the ten to wenty trillion that might take... lol! and there is no advantage that cannot be gained over sending machines!... terraforming would be cheaper... yet more time consuming.
MumblingMickey 2 years ago
I think the advantage would be there from the get go, this is why there looking more into ecosystems in space than hydroponics.. I mean.. what ya gonna do with all the chemicals for hydroponics? with machines you also have the logistics and running costs in fuel etc..
Jezath 2 years ago
I dunno, but i think the advantage would be that once its in place its completly self sustainable, with machines or giant terraform devices, the fuel £$ would outweigh any £$ of transporting an ecosys there, if the correct form of transport and deployment is used.
Jezath 2 years ago
i mean its prohibitly expensive just to run an artificial spacestation, with food deliverys, fuel deliverys, and all other logistics involved.. Having an ecosystem would solve almost all of these issues
Jezath 2 years ago
@Jezath Humans are VERY expensive to 'run' in environments like space...
Machines are cheap in comparison.. personally yes I'd love to accept the notion that we could whisk people off to another planet... its very romantic and all that... but machines present a cheaper way of getting there... and indeed building a permanent presence for weak and I might add non-disposable biological entities like us!
Yep it will take a long time... but what can you do about that?
MumblingMickey 2 years ago
i agree without humans at all it may be alot easier, and therefore cheaper..
but as ya know we have this insatiable curiosity.. we have to be there... we wouldent be satisfied with just machines there..
Jezath 2 years ago
@MumblingMickey i think everyone on is realizing how bad we fucked up our planet and they want to run away from the problem.
parsleysprigs 1 year ago
@Jezath it would take longer than a life time i don't think it's possible everyone just needs to give up the idea of abandoning our planet and start taking care of it.
parsleysprigs 1 year ago
@parsleysprigs I agree we need to start taking care of the planet we have, but with the population explosion and human footprint ( IE: how many acres of land it currently takes to support one human life) were just plain going to need more space. Which is out there in space, for that were going to need to find resources.. I saw some very interesting stuff on mars programs recently and interesting module designs, i forget the name of it, sorry..
Jezath 1 year ago
The biosphere only had a few different biomes though, not all of them.. They dident have all the species... In fact they were pretty select in what they allowed in there.. Maybe it could be slimmed down more.. Its a shame the experiment was cut short before a proper second run, it would have been very interesting to see if they could have solved the problems of the first expedition..
Jezath 2 years ago
Hi there I thank it is time to take Biosphere 2 to the Moon and mars. There is 3 ways to make this happen.
1.matter trap 2.seg 3.draw a circal around the BioSphere that is the space that will be moved.
Charles Gitchell Jr.
Jenner Pomo Research/Earth/Space/
JennerPomo 2 years ago
an amazing program came across it in a lecture during grade recovery for biology too bad it failed if they could keep on proceeding and make it better maybe the dream of outerspace colonies on the moon or mars may be possible but that is just it they stopped the project cold turkey when it failed the first time
jokey1134 2 years ago
no research prject is a failure..all data is valuable
Jezath 2 years ago
@jokey1134
They dident stop the experiment because it failed, the real issues were alot deeper than that.. In fact they had fixed a few of the problems and actually sent a second team in.. it was during the early stages of this teams expidition, that the management fell apart
Jezath 2 years ago
Krebs: No one knows how to engineer a
system that will provide humans with all the life support services that natural ecosystems produce for free. We have no alternative but to maintain the health of ecosystems on Earth.
gooziddaiejoon 2 years ago
id love to do that
elliotward 2 years ago
my aunt Sally Silverstone was there in this mision and co-commanded it
tobysilverstone 3 years ago
Probably the most amazing huma experiment ever performed. In the end I think we can all declare it a failure, but plans are in the working right now for a renewal and we could see a new biosphere 2 sealing, and a new team for 2 years begining before the year 2012.
09KLAEHNW 3 years ago