Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

http://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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[CAIsMyCrack]

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

[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.

[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.