Now researchers are testing those predictions inside the world's largest living laboratory. It's called Biosphere 2, named after what the researchers call Biosphere 1, Earth. Spread out over 1.2 hectares (3 acres) in southern Arizona, the huge greenhouse contains artificial habitats similar to ...
well, my experience in biosphere 2 was that we didn't get along, but we all kept our biosphere functioning. and that's an important distinction. so if you want to draw the analogy, whilst out here in biosphere 1 we aren't necessarily getting along very well and there are riots over 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...
Biosphere 2, currently under construction, is scheduled to commence its operations in 1991 with a two-year closure period with a crew of eight people. Biosphere 2 is a facility which will be essentially materially-closed to exchange with the outside environment. It is open to information and ...
Life on earth, which began no less than 1.5–2 billion years ago, is represented by an enormous number of organisms. Each organism can exist only under the condition of a constant and close bond with the environment, that is, with other organisms and with nonliving nature; in this sense,...
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摘要: Planet in a bottle. Eden revisited. Laboratory under glass. The largest self-sustaining closed ecological system ever made. Biosphere 2 is many things to many people. From its half-acre farm to its coral reef to its emerald...
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...
Observations by participants living inside the 1991-1993 Biosphere 2 closed system experiment provide the following insights. (1) Crew members should be involved in the design and construction of their life support systems to gain maximum knowledge about the systems. (2) Individuals living in closed...
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 ...