BioSub - A Self contained BiospheBeneath The Sea

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Ed Minchau wrote:
>
> My boss was just out at John Allen's (the guy who
> financed biosphere II) place on Saturday, and
> apparently they have been very quietly doing exactly
> that. The new facility is windowless and
> temperature-controlled, all lighting is electric and
> carefully metered, and they are doing it on a much
> smaller scale with the goal of figuring out the "not
> dying" part rather than "let's cram in every ecosystem
> we can think of".
>
> Ed
>

Ed,

I apologize for my "flaky billionaire" remark if John Allen has
turned his attention to a more realistic starting point for a
sustainable enclosed environment prototype. This area of research and
development is one of the first challenges in the critical path to
establishing a long term presence in space.

Chris