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Biosphere 2 An Interview with John Allen ru sIrIus O n september 26, 1991 eight men and women climbed inside a domelike enclosure about the size of two and a half football fields to stay for two years. Intended to function as a closed, human life sustaining ecological system, the place was a human constructed biosphere — a Biosphere 2. The mission received something close to the quantity of media attention that was once reserved for manned space flight, but the tone of some reports had a "Hey, look at the weirdoes" quality.

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