Spaceship Earth is a frustrating, fascinating tale of an isolation experiment gone awry: Review
It sounded like a great adventure; one giant terrestrial leap for mankind. Instead, it became a punchline,That's the broad outline of Biosphere 2, the earthbound experiment that launched to great fanfare in 1991, aiming to show the world the kind of self-sufficient life that might be possible on other planets. Eight eager residents entered the sealed-off dome in Oracle, Ariz.
It's a fascinating story, this clash of 1960s idealism with the cold realities of modern science, though not one that director Matt Wolf is fully able to bite off and chew inThe roots of it all begin with a charismatic figure named John Allen, an Oklahoma-born ecologist and engineer whose more out-there ideas found anchor in the free-flowing radicalism of late-'60s San Francisco.
One of those ideas, a sort of miniaturized eco-utopia that could serve as a prototype for future space colonies, gained the support of a Texas billionaire named Ed Bass. He helped them build Biosphere 2 , a place that did indeed look like a "prefab paradise," with its contained wonderland of self-supporting flora and fauna tended by eight jauntily jumpsuited terranauts.
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