History of Biosphere 2

I may be mis-remembering, but I thought Martin Gardiner or one of the other bogus science writers did a take-down on how truly awful the science was, going into and coming out of Biosphere 2. is there really a lot of new information here?

I don't think retrospectively, you can fix opening the airlock and bringing things in and out, without fundamentally questioning the "sealed world experiment" problem

I toured the facility around 2005-6 (iirc). Looks like you still can.

It had a futuristic and lightly post-apocalyptic vibe. The jungle plants were growing out of control, pressing up against the glass panes of one of the habitats. Ants streamed in and out from the desert outside through a crack in a glass panel.

If you check it out (http://biosphere2.org/visit/tour-schedule-hours), you can have a full post-apocalypse vacation by adding a tour of the ICBM museum south of Tucson, the AMARC plane graveyard, Cosanti in Scottsdale and Arcosanti (where you can stay) north of Phoenix.

I think that the article is missing the point of what it was about and what was learned from it, maybe 'Steve Bannon' isn't what was needed.

A better primer on the BBC news website:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-41151951/building-a-n...

An interview with one of the participants, clearly she learned a new perspective concerning her place in the world.

Originally it was told by the media as a project for a prototype space colony. There are those with ambitions to get humans living on Mars and beyond, but it is not going to be as easy as sci-fi ideas of the 1950's would lead us to believe.

I would say Biosphere-2 was actually a really good experiment even though it is mocked for the lack of any good science. We learn a lot through follies, the delusions of grandeur that others have and how naive we once were.

What I would like to see is some original press from 1991 with the likes of BBC's Tomorrow's World or Horizon presenting the thing seriously, particularly when it comes to 'Space Colony'.

Where'd the cockroaches come from? Presumably from the outside?

I cant read because of the paywall. Sometimes inspecting and removing works, but not now.