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It is one of two large-scale enclosed ecosystem structures in the Western Hemisphere, the other being Biosphere 2 in Tucson, Arizona. However, unlike the latter, the Montreal Biodome was designed primarily as a museum, resembles but is fundamentally different from a closed ecological system such as Biosphere 2.
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]
The Biosphere, also known as the Montreal Biosphere (French: Biosphère de Montréal), is a museum dedicated to the environment in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is housed in the former United States pavilion constructed for Expo 67 located within the grounds of Parc Jean-Drapeau on Saint Helen's Island .
Biosphere 2, which closely resembles the film's "Bio-Dome", opened in Oracle, Arizona, in 1991. The first "mission" saw eight scientists sealed inside the facility between 1991 and 1993 as part of an experiment to see how feasibly they could live within a closed system .
the Montreal Biosphère, a geodesic dome on Ile Sainte-Hélène in Montreal, Quebec, Canada used as the pavilion for the 1967 World Exhibition Expo 67. Biosphere 2, an artificial closed ecosystem in Oracle, Arizona. BIOS-3, a closed ecosystem at the Institute of Biophysics in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
The Montreal Biosphère, formerly the American Pavilion of Expo 67, by R. Buckminster Fuller, on Île Sainte-Hélène, Montreal, Quebec. A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron.
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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 ...