The failure of the Biosphere 2 experiment
Do you remember back in the 1990’s there was a great
experiment conducted in the dessert of Arizona? Scientists constructed a small
self-contained biosphere that was intended to be self-sustaining and made 2
attempts to seal off a crew to live and thrive within the domed area. It was named Biosphere 2 after the planet
earth, which was considered the first Biosphere. It had an ocean, dessert, tropical forest
and other representative regions of our planet, along with fish and animals
intended to sustain life. Despite very
careful and intelligent choices Biosphere 2 was a complete failure. My family and I visited and toured the
facility / grounds back in the mid 90’s.
Now for a practical observation - I’m not knocking the
efforts of the scientists and other great minds involved in this endeavor. However, if a great deal of human
intelligence could not pull this off on an extremely small scale, is it
reasonable to believe that non-intelligent random forces and time could pull
this off on a planetary scale?
Personally, I don’t possess that great of faith.
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