Keeping an eye out for Pauly Shore, we made it to Tuscon and spent some time touring Biosphere 2.


Tee hee, you ran out of oxygen! Seriously though, the story of this place is fascinating. It felt to me almost like the transporters from Carl Sagan's Contact novel - magnificent and strange scientific marvels made possible by a vast expenditure of money and resources.


Dad examines the ocean and mangrove environments, all under glass and sealed airtight at one point for a one of a kind human experiment.


The underground machinery keeping the temperature and humidity and water and air and all the rest of it within normal parameters. The signs says "savannah drainage." An artificial world - weeeird.