LARPing by any other name.
What the...? Shouldn't NASA be smart enough to figure out how to make human powered treadmills and stationary bicycles? Wouldn't a smart scientist actually recapture that expenditure as stored electrical power?
said Dunn, 27, a doctoral candidate at Purdue University. “We’ve been pretending for so long.”....Yes, Ms. Dunn, you have been pretending.
Just think of it ..... you go to Disneyland/world, take the ride with the sinking seats on the rocketship, then be transported while in a drug-induced sleep to the Biosphere, wake up in your little cabin with a peculiar bicycle pin fastened to your clothing, go out of your cabin, and ask the stranger you see who they are. They reply ..............
“You are number Six!”
(large directable inflated Ball not included)
"Somebody get this man a cheeseburger!"I could NOT be a part of this experiment. Eight months later, they’d be opening the doors to find...me!
Makes my skin crawl just to think of it; trapped like a rat...
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.