How to make Biosphere 2 actually work.

So I was reading about Biosphere 2 if you've never heard of it, it's basically a sort of Bio-Dome similar to that old comedy movie where they put themselves in a building that has an ecosystem of desert, ocean, rainforest, farmland, and live in seclusion to the outside world for a set amount of time. Thinking about this concept right away I spotted the main flaw with the "experiment" They didn't give the Biosphere time to settle before "closing it off from the outside world" I Image the future space travel where we sort of launch these biodomes into space that are self sustaining need something called a "sustaining period". Since it is very hard to predict what you need to put it to make things sustained, (Plants grow and become dominant, animals topple the ecosystem, oxygen levels rise and fall) You have to give the biodome a chance to organize itself. So right away Biosphere 2 was bound to fail, because they sealed it off, and said.. no we can't bring in oxygen or bring in outside food because that fails the experiment but they were going about it all wrong, and finally the human social aspect was going about it all wrong. Here's what needed to happen. They should have treated the project the same as what you see in the movie Apollo 13, or the Martian, in the sense that a team of "thinkers" existed with daily communication to help the people inside to figure out how to help stabilize the biodome. The people inside should simply be their as a human monitor. So when they run into problems they should have immediately opened the doors and brought in what they needed to help better stabilize the biodome. Not enough food, okay we need more of this and they bring in better plants, or animals, and then wait to see if it stabilizes. They also shouldn't really be living off of the biodome at first. So then again I image these things in the future would be build on spaceships and these ships would sit docked on earth until the domes pass a phase of stabilization, they would then be sealed, and after passing the final trial, be sent off into space. Think of it as growing a tree, first you have to plant the seed, then give it time to grow its roots, if the roots grow too large it kills other plants, so they have to artificially build environments that limit it's ability to do so, then once the tree is fully grown, and starts producing fruit, and is in its own self sustaining mode, no longer competing for survival, they can move to the next phase. I think they are trying to copy earth on too much of an organic level. Meaning they are trying to copy the thousands of years of evolution of plants and animals. When really they should be seeking to artificially and technologically solve these problems of sustainability and survival. I think they are taking the wrong approach in that manner. They are living like primitive humans, milking goats and farming their own crops, while the insects and the birds and the bees all do their thing. This is all wrong. Imagine if the crops were setup to become automated, as a sort of factory or assembly line. Run by machines. And processed. Think High Tech or futuristic when I say this. I mean they are building actual crops and fields like the primate people would build, when really it should be "plastic pockets of artificial soil that is fed the exact amount of water, nutrients, sunlight, through underground computer systems that know exactly what it needs to meet maximum growth. Then the machine automatically harvests the crop, and collects it, then perhaps processing it into something more. Food should be harvest in a similar way to how a car is manufactured. It's probably hard to get around the technical aspects of the how, but that is the mindset they should start with when seeking those answers. Instead of doing it by hand, the biodome should have a sort of built in "breadmaker, or a sort of factory of food, going from harvesting the crop, producing the food product, to even packaging it for later consumption and shipping it to a sort of storage and labeled for date in which it should be consumed. So where do we go next? What other problems do we face, how about meat, let's say the animals are grown in "containment" Where they don't have to compete with each other and are artificially bred, for food in a sort of automated process. Let's say it starts with chickens. They have their own sort of futuristic chicken coop.. I imagine white walls with self cleaning floors, artificial sunlight, and computer calculated food and water dispensaries, segregation from birth via egg collection, artificial insemination and rotation to maintain a healthy flock to calculate the lowest percent of inbreeding negative or unhealthy animals and highest change to maintain preferred genetic traits and life, then sortment, even containment from disease or contamination, to maintain the integrity of the species, to the slaughtering of mature adults and packaging into ready to cook meals all through automated robotic systems or human assisted engineering. Then you would design a sort of balance in the whole ecosystem of supply and demand. Lets say the "factory is producing too much food" then what happens, the machines then switch to specie preservation mode, perhaps collecting ideal samples for storage. I image it as like seeds being collected and put into a deep freeze or "idle state" and then being re-grown as needed similar to how they grow Dinosaurs in the movie Jurassic Park, or perhaps the animals are just kept living normals lives and instead of harvesting they are used as fertilizer or disposed as some sort of waist. We would have to sort of sit down and figure out what the most efficient procedure for this would be. Well here some some things to think about, hopefully others smarter than me can expand upon the concept.

Submitted April 29, 2017 at 06:57AM by d_a_s_h_ http://ift.tt/2pfRfFO