Posted on 06/15/2015 12:30:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Questioning the credentials of the participants (despite the contribution in the preparation phase of Biosphere 2 of worldwide top-level scientists and among others the Russian Academy of Science), Marc Cooper wrote[41] that "the group that built, conceived, and directs the Biosphere project is not a group of high-tech researchers on the cutting edge of science but a clique of recycled theater performers that evolved out of an authoritarian—and decidedly non-scientific—personality cult".
Read ‘The Martian’ by Andy Weir - wildly entertaining!
Now being made into a movie directed by Ridley Scott.
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