Visiting Biosphere 2 makes me realize that we know so very little about the world in which we live, yet our actions and decisions are based on imperfect snippets of data that we extrapolate and codify and then etch into stone. We think we know more than we really do. We think we can control and predict, yet all we seem to be doing is shift a delicate balance further out to the edges where implications and consequences that were once inelastic become elastic and magnified in its environmental impact. Biosphere 2 is a poor but necessary replication of the original biosphere 1, the Earth. Poor because we can never replicate the complex systems that nature has evolved, not even with half a billion dollars and counting. Necessary as it is the closest thing we have for research and testing, the collection of data which fuels the computer models that fan the flames of our understanding of the very fragile planet we live on.
It occurs to me that the biggest mistake we can make is to think we can definitively know something. When we fall into that trap we shut the door on inquiry, we blind ourselves to the possible yet less probable, we stop reconizing that error allows us to grow and learn, and we fool ourselves into a false sense of security.
Serious bed head
Picnic table cum bench press
Play things
Biosphere 2
An engineering marvel
Youngest biospherean in the group
Pneumatically sealed
Simulating the earths oceans
Rainforest room
What are we doing to our world?
Anyone want to reach for the fire extinguisher?
Simulating a desert (located in a desert...the irony)
Rock to soil experiment, break it down
Get your hands off my boy young lady!
Expandable lung capacity of the biosphere
Getting deep down into the technosphere
Metal and rubber lung, so the heat expanded air doesn't make the biosphere explode
Imagine spending two years sealed away
We need that fire extinguisher now
Helping with the grocery shopping
Welcome Mah Mah!
