About This Project

For human life on or off earth to survive, we need to completely understand sealed ecosystems. The problem is, we don’t.

Large bio-dome experiments have been abandoned and amateur experiments show that, in an environment (that remains sealed) stability can occasionally be achieved. By first, designing “seemingly” stable conditions (cyclical light /warmth, having complexity) and allowing it to find homeostatic equilibrium on its own. Can it be accelerated? Scaled up? Applied in space?

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What is the context of this research?

To better understand sealed ecosystems (so we can more effectively alter them), we must improve our understanding of interconnected relationships in complex closed-loop environments. Our immediate survival may depend on rectifying this.

We also need to fully understand how ecosystems work in varying atmospheric and gravimetric conditions. Simulating the artificial conditions on other planets or in space is problematic in part due to gravity’s effect on growth and in part, due to outmoded design. The survival of humanity long-term absolutely depends on us becoming experts at this, very rapidly. The goal being to become a multi-planetary species to ensure a higher likelihood of survival (in case of planetary mass extinction)

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What is the significance of this project?

We, as a society, don’t really know how to make, or sustain an ecosystem that supports human life long-term (without constant support and intervention).

We don’t have enough real world experimental data, therefore we have a limited grasp of life cycles (nitrification, circadian, thermal convection, microbiol etc…) when applied to complex closed loop ecosystems.

Our own biosphere (earth), is too large to fully understand all our impacts, and too complex to adequately measure all the variable changes. In smaller ones (biospheres) human supporting bio-domes have been attempted, failed and were abandoned. This is essential to solving our global warming crisis right now and right now, we are stalling in this bio-technology when we should be moving forwards.

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What are the goals of the project?

Large scale attempts have failed to create functional sealed biospheres. The most successful progress has been in the hands of amateurs.

“Full sealed” mico-biosphere conditions, mostly created by hobbyists, have maintained homeostatic conditions the longest, (conditions not been properly measured.)

A middle ground between these two approaches must be explored to develop our understanding of the relationships of these cycles .

The key take-away from these smaller experiments is that, in an environment (that remains sealed) stability can be occasionally achieved by first designing “seemingly” stable conditions (still receiving cyclical light and warmth), sealing it, and allowing it to find homeostatic equilibrium on its own.

To put it comically. Life finds a way.

Create a biosphere!