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Profile: Biosphere 2 trying to attract scientists
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NPR Morning Edition
04-30-2002
Profile: Biosphere 2 trying to attract scientists
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
BOB EDWARDS, host:
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Bob Edwards.
Biosphere 2 is the midst of an overhaul. The $150 million greenhouse in southern Arizona originally was designed to prove that humans could live in a closed ecological system, the kind of place that might be built for astronauts to liv...
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Biosphere 2's first 'mission' ends as 8 people leave its bubble. (Originated from Arizona Republic)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ... studies about closed systems likely will remain the property of Space Biospheres Ventures. (EDITORS: STORY CAN TRIM HERE) After a news conference, Alling said she missed the presence of children during her two years in Biosphere 2. Although she doesn't believe ...
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Biosphere 2 concept may be irrelevant to moon life, scientists say. (Originated from Arizona Republic)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ... no, at least as far as space travel is concerned, but said their research might shed light on the Earth's problems. ``The good news is there is much more interest in the Earth ecology than when they first started,'' Soffen said. ``It's much more a miniature ...
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Profile: Biosphere 2 trying to attract scientists
Morning Edition (NPR)
; ... Biosphere 2 trying to attract scientists Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 10:00-11:00 AM BOB EDWARDS, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Bob Edwards. Biosphere 2 is the midst of an overhaul. The $150 million greenhouse in southern Arizona originally was designed ...
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Recycling biosphere 2.
Popular Mechanics
; ... ants, says my guide Bernd Zabel, a former Biospherian. The good news is that they don't bite, and they sleep at night. The exotic ... 2] levels accelerate plant growth. This might seem like good news, were it not for one significant catch. Not all plants respond ...
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CLEANSING THE AIR IS DIFFICULT OFFICE, INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS MIGHT USE BIOSPHERE 2'S SOIL BED FILTERING SYSTEM
The Boston Globe
; The air circulating through the seven million cubic feet of space enclosed by Biosphere 2 is one continuous system, and keeping it clean, contained and in a correct balance of gases is a very tricky business. The most obvious problem is sheer volume. Putting a huge greenhouse in the middle of the
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Ex-Biosphere 2 member says she acted on her own
The Boston Globe
; The day after a break-in at the three-acre sealed greenhouse called Biosphere 2, a Biosphere member who had acknowledged responsibility for opening the experiment's doors said she had acted on her own, not on behalf of anyone else involved in a dispute over the project's management. "My actions are
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Biosphere II may be slick, but it's a bargain at $11.95
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... public-relations coup. Seven months into the "experiment," an average of 1,100 people a day are queueing up to take a peek. Negative news stories notwithstanding, the place is a hit, and no wonder, because the first glimpse of the geometric steel-and-glass pavilion ...
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BIOSPHERE 2 GAINS CREDIBILITY, LOSES FUNDING
The Boston Globe
; ORACLE, Ariz. - A few students trudge past the sprawling glass structure on their way to a new dormitory. Inside the glass, two middle-aged tourists and their guide hike through a humid savanna and peer across a twisted mangrove swamp into a deep green "ocean." Down the hall, a researcher is
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Bad air led to some bad feelings inside Biosphere.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; WICHITA, Kan. _ Eighteen months after walking out of Biosphere 2, Jane Poynter can laugh about the experience. But, at the time, life in the bubble wasn't too funny. Because of a lack of oxygen that developed inside the 3.15-acre sealed glass enclosure, the eight crew members became tired easily,
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Little big world. (Biosphere 2)
The Economist (US)
; THE visitor to Biosphere 2, nestled in the mountains north of Tucson, has a feeling of deja vu. This could be because he sees so many reminders of things - the 3.15 acre glass palace contains thousands of species of plant and animal, arranged to caricature seven different types of ecosystem, from
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