Biosphere 2: What Really Happened?
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In the fall of 1991, I was sealed into an airtight, three-acre mini-world called Biosphere 2, a $150-million futuristic facility near the aptly named town of Oracle, Arizona. I joined seven other explorers in a daring, high-profile study of sustainability and the new science of biospherics—the study of closed systems that mimic Earth’s environment. It was right out of a
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What happens when you seal eight people in a giant bubble?
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25 years after first experiment ended, Biosphere poised for new efforts in science, outreach
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What happens when you seal eight people in a giant bubble?
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Biosphere 2 - Tucson Arizona - LocalWiki
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Biosphere 2 - Tucson Arizona - LocalWiki
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