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Biosphere 2 from the inside, half the original size. I, User:Colin Marquardt, took this photo on 2003-06-30. {{PD-user|Colin Marquardt}} File usage.
Biosphere 2, with upgraded solar panels in foreground, sits on a sprawling 40-acre (16-hectare) science campus that is open to the public. The Biosphere 2 project was launched in 1984 by businessman and billionaire philanthropist Ed Bass and systems ecologist John P. Allen, with Bass providing US$150 million in funding until 1991. [7]
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Also, Biosphere 2 likely depends heavily on the tourism to fund itself so the complete sealing of it is unpractical but there are other places where there are better seals such as the agricultural domes which are being converted to a new experiment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.56.191.137 22:37, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Controlled (or closed) ecological life-support systems (acronym CELSS) are a self-supporting life support system for space stations and colonies typically through controlled closed ecological systems, such as the BioHome, BIOS-3, Biosphere 2, Mars Desert Research Station, and Yuegong-1.
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Biosphere 2 captivated the world's attention and imagination; Discover magazine asserted that Biosphere 2 was "the most exciting scientific project to be undertaken in the U.S. since President John F. Kennedy launched us toward the moon," [20] and talk-show host Phil Donahue, in a live on-site broadcast, called Biosphere 2 "one of the most ...