BIOSPHERE

The Biosphere is all our ecosystems in totality and synchrony. It is an integration of all living things with the elements, atmosphere, lithosphere etc. The biosphere is said to have started evolving since the past 3.5 billion years.

Have you ever thought about what it must have taken for the earth to be created; the vast patches of land, oceanic water bodies, plants, the atmosphere, oxygen, carbon dioxide and everything else that makes the earth complete in every way? How did everything fit perfectly in place? How did the ecosystem take form? How was the food-chain created? How did man evolve?

Is Biosphere 2 the answer to all these questions? The Biosphere 2 is a 3.15-acre structure originally built to be a man-made, materially-closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona (USA) by Space Biosphere Ventures, a joint venture whose principal officers were John P. Allen, inventor and Executive Director, and Margret Augustine, CEO. Constructed between 1987 and 1991, it was used to explore the complex web of interactions within life systems in a structure that included five areas based on natural biomes and an agricultural area and human living/working space to study the interactions between humans, farming and technology with the rest

Well it seems like someone did think about the answers to all those questions doesn’t it? Allow us to explain this a little more.

The first closed mission lasted from September 26, 1991 to September 26, 1993. During this first mission, the oxygen inside the facility, which began at 20.9%, fell at a steady pace and after 16 months was down to 14.5%. Daily fluctuation of carbon dioxide dynamics was typically 600 ppm (parts per million) because of the strong drawdown during sunlight hours by plant photosynthesis, followed by a similar rise during the nighttime when system respiration dominated. This basically meant that people could not survive under such extreme atmospheric conditions.

The second mission was a little more successful than the first. During the transition period between missions, extensive research and system improvements had been undertaken. However, mission two was ended prematurely on September 6, 1994. The entire thing was sold later in 2005.

The University of Arizona was then the new management taking care of the entire facility. They used the site as a laboratory to study climate change, among many other things. Today Biosphere 2 stands tall and wide as the pride of Arizona.

Beats imagination doesn’t it?

More about this in due course of time.

Information Source: www.b2science.org