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To: Daffynition; Red_Devil 232; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
...agricultural success that could sustain Biosphere's eight people for two years.
In the real world, that kind of success can be found in something called a small farm. :') Thanks Daffynition. I remember a little of the coverage given this budding project by media sycophants; one of the participants was a self-described longevity expert who in interview explained that there's no reason the human lifespan can't hit 600 without any technological advances -- but that the laws of probability led him to the conclusion that surviving beyond that point would be basically impossible, because everyone would succumb to a fatal accident within 600 years. And of course, one drawback would be that the retirement age would have to be moved up to 575.
17 posted on 04/05/2010 5:04:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: SunkenCiv
Interesting talk hosted on TED by Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

Impressive creds. [Both she and hubbie]

24 posted on 04/06/2010 2:41:03 AM PDT by Daffynition ( In the span of one man's lifetime, only the individual has any potential - not the collective.)
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