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‘Spaceship Earth’ Documentary on Isolating in Biosphere 2 Can Teach Us All a Lesson

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By Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor In the ’80s, a group of scientists and artists wanted to know if they could recreate Earth’s ecosystem, so they built Biosphere 2 (Earth was known as Biosphere 1) in Oracle, Ariz.

The experiment was not only scientific, but a social one where eight scientists locked themselves in the Biosphere from 1991 to 1993.

There would be no supplies and no physical contact with the outside world. On September 26,1991, Mark Van Thillo, Sally Silverstone, Mark Nelson, Linda Leigh, Taber McCallum, Roy Walford, Abigail Alling, and Jane Poynter, collectively known as “the synergists” were locked in the biosphere, a 3.15-acre home, a self-sustaining mini-world.

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