I blame Pauly Shore for this

[Russ Smith]

"Looks like Biosphere 2, the world's largest terrarium, may soon be
history. Reporter Joseph Barrios of the morning daily broke the news
last week that Fairfield Homes is making a deal to buy the
Biosphere's spectacular 1,600 acres to develop a master-planned
community."

 

[jenna2891]

you could have posted anything and i would have agreed with you.

 

[jenna2891]

so, is the community being built inside the biosphere? i'd buy one of those houses.

 

[Dback Jon]

I blame Pauly Shore for a lot of things.....

 

[Russ Smith]

so, is the community being built inside the biosphere? i'd buy one of those houses.

I think they're actually going to dismantle the biosphere to build the homes.

That sucks, while I may make fun of Al Gore and some eco driven things, I always though the biosphere was a very valuable experiment. I guess basically the funding dried up as nobody was seeing enough discoveries coming out of it to warrant keeping it going.

But I still say if the average person on the street is asked about a biosphere there either going to say "what?", or they're going to bring up that horrible Pauly Shore movie.

 

[D-Dogg]

The biosphere was pretty cool.

 

[MigratingOsprey]

the biosphere is a joke - so much potential that went untapped - a lot of sunk money

if you ever have a chance to tour the place, don't ............. it's a beautiful area up there though

 

[Ryanwb]

Not to split hairs but the Biosphere is the planet Earth. Biosphere 2 is the big waste of money in Oracle, AZ

 

[Russ Smith]

the biosphere is a joke - so much potential that went untapped - a lot of sunk money

if you ever have a chance to tour the place, don't ............. it's a beautiful area up there though

The first one was of coure a disaster, they put those people in there and they literally went nuts, stealing food from each other. That's of course where they got the idea for the stupid movie.

Biosphere 2 was actually fairly productive, I read something this morning about 13 scientific papers being written based on studies conducted in the biosphere 2, including the foremost paper on the effects of CO2 on coral reefs. Obviously huge amounts of money went into it, it was a Texas billionaire that started the whole thing but Columbia University had been funding Bio 2 and they basically severed all ties a few years ago.

One of the places I always wanted to see but didn't.

 

[MigratingOsprey]

seriously, be glad you didn't - was very pricey, the entire staff is bitter, the building is in disrepair and although there is some good technology there and some interesting things - they never really were able to contain the environment and make them inhabitable for periods of time long enough to draw out anything worth the cost of building it - regardless of what papers have to say - the worst thing you could do is visit the place if you think there were great things going on there (trust me, i was one of the people kind of enchanted by the concept and design of the place - seeing reality sucked)

and ryan is right on - it's named biosphere 2, not because it's the second incarnation, but because the earth is biosphere 1

 

[Pariah]

Pauly Shore clubs baby seals.