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hvdfhbj | 5 years ago

Really more of a PR spectacle than a worthwhile experiment.

Including humans seems to have caused most of the problems there. If you actually wanted to experiment with closed biological systems in a useful way then I'd recommend doing a bunch of trials with a less cantankerous species of large omnivorous mammal, like the goat.

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heymijo|5 years ago

Biosphere 2 was originally meant to demonstrate the viability of closed ecological systems to support and maintain human life in outer space[0]

>including humans seem to have caused most of the problems

I chuckled a bit at your reply hvd.

The hardest, seemingly intractable problems in the world aren't engineering problems, they are human ones. If we want to level up as a species those are the ones we will need to figure out how to solve.