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I was thinking more along the lines of....
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
https://youtu.be/GbQy-0SzshA
(3:30)

On a more serious note however; I totally forgot about this place and it’s good to get an in-person opinion on it. And it’s apparently generating some authentic science now. From the last part of the Article:

“Biosphere 2 survives today because the University of Arizona needed a facility where it could do a controlled agricultural experiment, dubbed the “Landscape Evolution Observatory.” Unlike the original Biosphere 2 experiment, this project is from the get-go entirely focused on very specific scientific questions.....The money to run this project comes partly from grants, partly from the income provided by paying tourists on tours, and partly from a $30 million gift from Biosphere 2’s original backer, Ed Bass. Despite the facility’s checkered history, it appears that he hasn’t given up on it.”