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Scientists and the general public alike have long been conflicted over how to view Biosphere 2, the controversial experiment in space living and the would-be research center in the high Sonoran Desert north of Tucson, Arizona. Was the Biosphere, which is now up for sale and sits empty (excep...
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Jane Poynter spent two years in the world's most famous artificial environment. Her new book, , throws open the Biosphere 2 airlock to the world -- the good science, the hard work and the raging conflict among crew members. A Wired News interview by Eric
Each recent report of liquid water existing elsewhere in the Solar System has reverberated through the international press and excited the imagination of humankind. Why? Because in the past few decades we have come to realize that where there is liquid w
coupled with new data on the survival of microbes in the space environment and modelling of the potential for transfer of life between celestial bodies, suggests that life could be more common than previously thought. Here we examine critically what it means to be an extremophile, and the implic...
Using the case of Biosphere 2, launched in the Arizona desert in 1983, this paper studies the images of nature and environment contained in this quest to create an ecosystem and human habitat as good as, or superior to nature on Earth (known in this context as Biosphere 1). The second ...
In contrast to the simplistic definition of life as the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body, present-day biological sciences are mechanistically oriented, that is, cells and their inventory are functionally determined by the nonvitalist principle that living matter...
活下来将是每天的挑战,但正如生物圈but as proved by the Biosphere 2 experiment, not impossible. As2号实验所证明的,并非不可能。早在20世纪80early as the 1980s, scientists were building Biosphere 2 in the Arizona年代,科学家就在亚利桑那州的沙漠中建造了生desert. It consisted of a closed space in...
biosphere that part of the earth’s surface where most forms of life exist, specifically those parts where there is water or atmosphere. mechanism Philosophy. the theory or doctrine that all the phenomena of the universe, especially life, can ultimately be explained in terms of physics and chemi...