Biosphere 2 Not Such a Bust
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In most people’s minds, Biosphere 2 was a fabulously expensive failure, a $200 million earth-in-a-bottle that choked on carbon dioxide and was overrun by ants. But not everybody feels that way. "In our view, Biosphere 2 was a tremendous success," said Bill Dempster, the project’s engineering systems director and designer of the sphere’s remarkable lungs. […]
In most people’s minds, Biosphere 2 was a fabulously expensive failure, a $200 million earth-in-a-bottle that choked on carbon dioxide and was overrun by ants. But not everybody feels that way. In our view, Biosphere 2 was a tremendous success, said Bill Dempster, the project’s engineering systems director and designer of the sphere’s remarkable lungs. […]
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Biosphere 2
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Biosphere 2: Would you isolate yourself for Space Age Research
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Biosphere 2: What Really Happened?
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Biosphere 2 – Oracle, Arizona - Atlas Obscura
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This Is The Largest Earth Science Experiment. What Went Wrong
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Biosphere 2 - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (with Photos)
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Biosphere 2: Saving the world within a world
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Biosphere 2 The Second Earth Experiment of the 1990s
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