#biosphere 2

[mayanhandballcourt]

Photographer Phil Donohue

[dare-g]

Biosphere 2 🌎 ✌️

[creatureactivist]

I took them to be sealed away forever.

This place was so crazy. It's a literal tropical rainforest inside a glass enclosure in the desert. And they literally had 8 people locked inside of it for 2 years as an experiment in the 90s??

[lazlolullaby]

Experience innovative Earth systems research, interactive learning programs, and guided tours or virtual tours focused on our changing plane

gently yeets this into the Project Hail Mary fandom.

...it's an enclosed environmental system just like Grace's Terrarium on Erid. if you want to research more into what goes into making a human safe environment in a "relatively hostile" environment.

[fitnessgeekandcoffeefreak]

It was a rainy day so we pushing hiking back a day to go through a tour at Biosphere 2. I'm not typically into this kind of stuff, but it was pretty interesting! The crew of Biospherians lived inside for 2 years! TWO YEARS. The rain forest portion of the tour was my favorite part.

[terminalstroke]

Biosphere 2

[poptropicacheats]

Me n colton went to biosphere 2 a couple weeks ago and we had a lovely time

[bagdyernoke]

Biosphere 2 - Wikipedia

Biosphere 2 - Wikipedia

Much of the evidence for isolated human groups comes from psychological studies of scientists overwintering in Antarctic research stations. The study of this phenomenon is "confined environment psychology" (cf. environmental psychology), and according to Jane Poynter it was known to be a challenge and often crews split into factions.

Before the first closure mission was half over, the group had split into two factions and, according to Poynter, people who had been intimate friends had become implacable enemies, barely on speaking terms. Others point out that the crew continued to work together as a team to achieve the experiment's goals, mindful that any action that harmed Biosphere 2 might imperil their own health. This is in contrast to other expeditions where internal frictions can lead to unconscious sabotage of each other and the overall mission. All of the crew felt a very strong and visceral bond with their living world. They kept air and water quality, atmospheric dynamics and health of the life systems constantly in their attention in a very visceral and profound way. This intimate "metabolic connection" enabled the crew to discern and respond to even subtle changes in the living systems. (Alling et al., 2002; Alling and Nelson, 1993). "Appreciation of the value of biosphere interconnectedness and interdependency was appreciated as both an everyday beauty and a challenging reality", Walford later acknowledged "I don't like some of them, but we were a hell of a team. That was the nature of the factionalism... but despite that, we ran the damn thing and we cooperated totally"