Yesterday 2/19/2009 we thought we could do a trip to The Biosphere & Mt. Lemmon. But the trip to the Biosphere took most of the day. We have herd people say that it wasn’t worth the trip but we enjoyed it. It’s an amazing look @ earth science & today is being used & managed by the University of Arizona. Not sure we would have paid $40 to go see it but we have a Tucson pass book so it was only $20.
There is no public money being used for this project. It was all built with private money. Located off Oracle Road (Hwy-77) at mile post 96.5 20 minutes north on Tucson & 90 minutes south of Phoenix. Click on the Pix to see bigger.
The tour started in the area of the kitchen used by the first group of people 4 men & 4 women (non married) they lived in this controlled environment for 2 yrs & 20 minutes. There was another small group that lived in the Biosphere for 6 months. We then entered into the Tropical Savannah that was so humid it was next to impossible to get pix as your lenses & glasses fogged up. Next stop the desert.
Next stop the Ocean.They trucked in 1 million Gallons of Ocean water from San Diego in Milk trucks to have pure Ocean water for the environment.
The tropical Rain Forest
The basement that makes it all work. Wonder if this is what it looks like deep in the earth??
Then there is the lungs. There are 2 big round domes. They now think it could all have been ok with just 1 dome.There is a big huge rubber balloon type membrane inside the dome with a large mettle disk that goes up & down with the heat & cold outside. You really need to be there to see this.
The outside.
The woman giving the tour gave 2 things we might like to google one was Mangrove restorations & Waste Water Garden The later having to do with septic type systems. And the book The Human Experiment by Jane Poynter.
To read more about the Biosphere 2 you can go http://www.B2science.org
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