{"id":2272,"date":"2004-02-25T03:14:01","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T19:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/25\/biosphere\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:32:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:32:21","slug":"biosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/25\/biosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Biosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting article from the Philadelphia Inquirer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/inquirer\/news\/front\/8017154.htm\" title=\"Biosphere's Lessons\">looking at the early-90&#8217;s Biosphere experiment<\/a>. I remember being fascinated by this at the time it was going on, but thought I remembered that it eventually fell apart. Apparently I was wrong &#8212; the experiment did last the full two years planned, though not without problems&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Living inside the glass enclosure known as Biosphere 2 for two years wasn&#8217;t easy. If its eight pioneering residents wanted pizza, they had to grow their own wheat and milk a goat for cheese. They contended with thinning air, insufficient food, constant work and, worst of all, each other.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Things like this might be more and more important as we look more seriously at exploring the universe outside of our little planet. It&#8217;s neat to see people looking back on this again, and nice to be able to get a little more information on how things actually went during those two years.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0108026\/2004\/02\/23.html#a2128\" title=\"Biosphere 2 - Oracle, AZ\">The Mediaburn Radio Weblog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting article from the Philadelphia Inquirer looking at the early-90&#8217;s Biosphere experiment. I remember being fascinated by this at the time it was going on. Apparently the experiment did last the full two years planned, though not without problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[514],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}