Ted Project

AHHHHH!!!! This was due a LONG time ago...

I was looking through my blogs when I noticed that this blog was never posted...

Anyways, here it is.

4/9/2013
We were shown a partial presentation today by a student in my class: Emma N. She was telling us about a woman who lived in a Biosphere and was cut off completely from the rest of the world. Jane Poynter was her name. She lived in two Biospheres. The first is Earth. The other is Biosphere 2. She lived in Biosphere 2 for a total of 2 years and 20 minutes.

I thought that, that was AMAZING!!! I have always wanted to try and see what life without modern interaction would be like.

Now, she had a telephone and fun tools to help her harvest food and what not, but it was all hard work. She said in her talk that it took about four months to make a pizza. FOUR MONTHS. For one measly pizza. Now that is telling us something about our world today.


We have life easy. But life in the Biosphere 2 seems very hard. In her Biosphere, they had a miniature earth. Each section with a different environment or 'feel' to it. There was a savanna, rain forest, marsh, desert, and even a coral reef.

I believe that that is amazing. One big step for science. It really reminded me of the Disney Channel movie Zenon. That movie is all about a Biosphere on the MOON! Jane was talking about how the scientists on the team wanted to make it possible to do the same thing.

If I were to ever be able to live in such a place, even as a test, I would love to try and see how I could live. I want to be a scientist on a future project like this. I'd be the electrical (electricity) supervisor for the whole thing! That would be AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But not only that, I liked the way in which Emma presented the speaker. She seemed excited and always told us the interesting parts of the talk. She always connected the ideas of the speaker to things that normal students could relate.

All in all, I loved the speakers, both of them, I liked how both were excited about what they were talking about. I wish I could do something like that.

Here is the Biosphere!