This Is The Largest Earth Science Experiment. What Went Wrong?
731,693
Published 2020-12-13
► Subscribe: goo.gl/r5jd1F
The 80s was the beginning of a new modern generation. There were hundreds of new companies, products, scientific breakthroughs, and new technologies being released to the amazement of many.
And in 1987, one of the most ambitious and expensive scientific projects was launched...
50-minutes north of Tucson, Arizona in the USA, at the base of the Santa Catalina Mountains in Oracle, lies a glass and spaceframe facility unlike anything you have ever seen before. A set of geodesic domes, and pyramids known as Biosphere 2.
It was a vision that could be a step towards humans colonizing Mars.
#biosphere2 #biosphere #space #science #mars #spacex
All Comments (21)
-
This is not a failed experiment! This experiment merely shows us what not to do! A failed experiment is an experiment in which we do not learn something new!
-
I don't view this as a lesson on how fragile earth's ecological system is, but more of a lesson how little we understand the factors involved.
-
It wasn't a failure, this is how we learn.
-
Major props to Ed Bass. Despite his investment a failure, he still insisted on donating money for the univeristy of arizona for reasearch. I wish most billionaires would be like like him
-
Did yone else just randomly find this video and say oh ok
-
That's infuriating that the lessons learned from it were kept private.
-
This isn't a failure because they learned a lot from it. Could you imagine if we tried to build a base with concrete in space without knowing that it reacted like that.
-
I love the conclusion. The entire project is widely regarded as a failure, but to the motivated minds, a lesson learned is never a failure. I am grateful for the huge donations and contributions made by this man to support and advance our scientific endeavors. Let us make these mistakes now, for in the future we will be ever more prepared.
-
Credit to Edward Bass. He put his money where his mouth is. Unlike modern celebrities and businessmen who talk about it then take a private jet home.
-
Sometimes youtube recommendation makes wonders, great channel, great quality, great narration, instant subs..
-
My understanding was that no one thought to account for the oxygen consumed by micro-organisms living in the soil. I visited the complex after the University of Arizona acquired it. It was an absolutely amazing and beautiful place. It was obvious that a LOT of careful planning and TLC went into its design, construction, and operation. I highly recommend taking a tour of the facility if tours are still available.
-
I swear this story helped inspire Vault-Tec in the Fallout franchise
-
Rarely do you see millionaires being still faithful and optimistic as much as they could to what they started with. Kudos to Mr. Bass for supporting them through.
-
How can this be considered a failure!? It’s incredibly important to understand how a colonization could fail. Imagine trying this on mars and then finding out stabilizing O2 isn’t as easy as in theory. Plus giving supplies for the team is a good idea. It’s like patching the problem so the project could survive enough to learn what works and what doesn’t
-
Just an FYI to anyone not from the US: while it is 50 miles north of Tucson, Arizona. Tucson is not pronounced “tuss-cun”, like the narrator of this video did. It’s pronounced like “too sawn”, which comes from a Native American word meaning, “at the base of the black hill.” My guess is that he assumed it was pronounced like the Tuscany region of Italy.
-
The thing I remember about Biosphere 2 were the reports on how the plant life reacted to the enclosed space. Apparently the plant life stopped behaving normally when enclosed and then "adapted" itself. To me this was a profound vindication that we simply don't know very much about our own ecosystem.
-
So many millions spent for scientific knowledge - but without scientists.
-
The fact none were professional scientists would not have helped. I wonder if some issues could have been foreseen with better research and planning.
-
Entire team can't figure out to sustain themselves. Matt Daemon: "Hold my potato."
-
This wasn't a failure. It was very successful in producing just how unprepared we really are to colonize another planet. It found many weaknesses that were not accounted for and most importantly showed how weak the human psyche really is.
