#oracle ticketing system

[hushman]

Sort of self indulgent but part of me really wants to see Dick Grayson go back to being a cop. Though to be clear, I don't want an edgy, Grayson trying to fix the system as the one good cop within a corrupt police force, style story or an angsty trying to make peace with having to carry a gun despite his mentor's belief.

I want fun, mostly light hearted antics of Dick Grayson as a beat cop and all the shenanigans that can come from it.

I want a training officer who's utterly perplexed at how competent Grayson is, despite the fact Grayson is trying to fly under the radar and underplay his abilities.

I want the bat family and Titans to constantly find ways to tease Grayson for being a cop.

I want Damian to ride in Grayson's cop car and to pretend to be indignant but secretly wanting to play with the sirens.

I want Selina and Jason to see how close to the line they can get with Officer Grayson before he is forced to arrest them.

I want Officer Grayson to give Bruce Wayne a ticket and it becoming a running joke.

I want Stephanie and Cassandra to swap out all of Graysons uniforms to a size smaller, leading to Officer Grayson to trend online as "Officer Sexy" (they regret nothing).

I want super heroes trying to keep a straight face whilst giving Officer Grayson their statement.

I want Dick to slowly realise just how bizarre the DC Universe is from the perspective of law enforcement.

I want B tier villians developing an inferiority complex when they get taken down by Officer Grayson without needing to call in any super heroes.

I want Dicks attempts to fly under the radar to be regularly foiled and needing to find ways to resolve matters in the least Nightwing way possible.

I want Grayson in situations where he is forced to go full Nightwing and then needs Oracle's help to clean up the mess and protect he's secret identity.

Barbara: What is it this time?

Dick: I swear, this was just supposed to be a noise complaint.

Barbara: And what has it turned into?

Dick: 27 unconscious gangsters and an illegal weapon shipment.

Barbara: *groan*

[landoom]

F1 FANFICS REC LIST - AU but one of them is still a driver

Halo (7365 words) by belowfreezing Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationships: Charles Leclerc/Max Verstappen Summary: "We have the halo system. It was a turning point for reducing head and neck injuries." What a fitting name, Max thought, as he envisioned a glowing ring above Charles's head.  OR Max is a MotoGP rider and Charles is a Formula 1 driver. They fall in love.

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Somewhere in Monaco (2121 words) by youknowmyname Rating: General Audiences Relationships: Charles Leclerc/Max Verstappen Summary: Max Verstappen is a driver for Oracle Red Bull Racing, and Charles Verstappen is the prince of Monaco. Somehow, and somewhere, their paths cross.

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chronically bitchless but still wifed up (8361 words) by leafmeal0ne Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationships: Lando Norris/Oscar Piastri Summary: Lando wasn’t above throwing his weight around in order to get what he wanted, at least in some circumstances. And he wanted to meet Oscar Piastri. In general, he wanted to go to a MotoGP weekend and probably could have either bought tickets and waited around there like a normal person or asked one of his actual sort-of friends in the paddock to hang out in their garage, but the more specific desire was to meet Oscar Piastri. 

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see you again (99005 words) by madlyiephasetwo Rating: Explicit Relationships: Lando Norris/Carlos Sainz Jr, Background George Russel/Alex Albon, Even more background Daniel Ricciardo/Max Verstappen Summary: The young man was handing over the bronze trophy to Charles and Carlos knew he had to be someone famous or important to present trophies at Silverstone but Carlos couldn’t quite put a finger on it, couldn’t place where he had seen his face before, even though there seemed to be something vaguely familiar about it.  Lando is fourth in line to the British throne. Carlos is still a Formula 1 driver.

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Loud And Clear Baby (3782 words) by cxrnlia Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationships: Lando Norris/Oscar Piastri Summary: Lando gets a new mechanic, who turns out to be a very young, attractive Australian. His accent for starters doesn’t even irritate Lando. Yeah he’s done for.

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Fair Winds And Following Seas (7127 words) by NovaCloud Rating: Mature Relationships: Charles Leclerc/Max Verstappen Summary: Max lets out an impatient sigh and looks at Lando as he washes the shot glass before putting it back. “Well who is it?”

Lando rolls his eyes. “You’re no fun.”

“I’m delightful, now come on,” Max presses, trying not to show he’s getting curious. “Who is this mystery person?”

“Charles Leclerc!” Lando says with a bright smile, he’s almost jumping up and down with excitement. “He’s chartering the yacht for the week!”

“Charles Leclerc?” Max repeats, raising an eyebrow. “The Charles Leclerc, F1 driver for Ferrari, is here?”

Or

Max works on a super yacht during the summer to make some money to invest in his sim racing career and Charles happens to charter it for the week.

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You're by the side of the road (5544 words) by szerelem Rating: General Audiences Relationships: Lando Norris/Oscar Piastri, Oscar Piastri & Daniel Ricciardo Summary: Quadrant ☑️ @Quadrant • 30 June We are delighted to announce that Quadrant got invited to the British Grand Prix as McLaren’s guest! We couldn’t be more thankful to the team! See you guys there. @McLarenF1 💭 91  🔁 8K�� ❤ 29K  📶 981,712 |  | McLaren ☑️ @McLarenF1 • 30 June 👀 Can’t wait to see you guys in the garage! 💭 28  🔁 5K  ❤ 27K  📶 781,693

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Drawn Together (4907 words) by Place2b Rating: General Audiences Relationships: Alexander Albon/George Russell Summary: George Russell was a proper omega. He was tall and slim and spoke with a crisp, smooth voice that left everyone waiting to see what he would say next. He moved with elegance and grace, never stumbling or tripping over his own two feet. Alexander Albon was not a proper alpha. He was soft spoken, afraid to use his voice. He never stood to his full height, too scared to intimidate those around him. He had a goofy face with teeth way too big for his mouth. But maybe together, they would be perfect

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all green lights (22685 words) by venerat Rating: Explicit Relationships: Alexander Albon/George Russell Summary: Sorry mate I think you've got the wrong number

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Racing Hearts (18944 words) by szerelem Rating: General Audiences Relationships: Alexander Albon/George Russell, Alexander Albon & Lando Norris & George Russell, Alexander Albon & Lando Norris, Lando Norris & George Russell, George Russell & Mick Schumacher, Alexander Albon & Mick Schumacher Summary: Leah @papayaboyzz • 20 February okay yall I just read alex albon’s interview w variety cuz my whole timeline is talking abt him, and am I tripping or was he talking abt george fucking russell? @gr63femfanboy you are the george expert 162 replies | 89 retweets | 4K likes leo @gr63femfanboy • 20 February after my dear friend Leah (@papayaboyzz) drew my attention to this (https://variety.com/2024/music/alex-albon-racing-hearts-23630123) interview with alex albon who is an amazing musical artist, I dug a little and this is what I found (a thread) 1 reply | 6K retweets | 16K likes OR Alex Albon is a singer who just released his first album and George Russell is still a Formula 1 driver. What happens when people begin linking the dots between the two of them?

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all I do is try, try, try (13305 words) by mercutiovibes Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationships: Alexander Albon/George Russell Summary: Alex is first in line to the throne, George is still a Formula 1 driver.

[cantsayidont]

January 1996. Before it became a Harley Quinn thing, BIRDS OF PREY was Barbara Gordon's (barely) crypto-lesbian crimefighting polycule. After Babs was shot by the Joker and summarily discarded by the Bat-books, John Ostrander and Kim Yale reinvented the former Batgirl as Oracle, a computer hacker and information broker who for a while was Amanda Waller's second-in-command of the Suicide Squad. In 1995, Oracle became the costar of the leading homoerotic team-up franchise of the '90s, recruiting Black Canary and later various other superheroines for what was nominally a CHARLIE'S ANGELS type adventure series with Oracle as Charlie.

What's memorable about this initial special, aside from its horny Gary Frank art, is that Black Canary doesn't know who Oracle is except by reputation and as an electronically altered voice on the telephone. However, Dinah is going through a rough patch, so when she comes home to find an answering machine message from Oracle saying she has a dangerous job for her and has already bought her a first-class ticket to Gotham, Dinah decides she has nothing better to do but play out the string. Oracle has gotten her a fancy rental car and a swanky hotel suite, in which there's a throat mic and tiny transceiver that will let Oracle communicate with her (and surveil her, although Oracle already knows everything about her, from her recent breakup with Oliver Queen to her poor credit rating) 24/7:

So, Babs not only wants Dinah to do some legwork for her, but also dresses her up like a doll, watches her every move, and is a voice in her ear basically at all times. (The early BIRDS OF PREY stories often have scenes of Babs talking to Dinah from the bath or the hot tub, because that's the kind of series this is.) Rather than being creeped out by this weird stalker/control-freak behavior from an anonymous woman, Dinah says, "Sure, why not?" and decides to just go with it, even after Oracle starts bringing other women into the mix. (It seems pretty clear that when Dinah asks, "Are these your personal taste?" she's asking whether they're what Oracle wants to see Dinah in — which Dinah evidently doesn't have a problem with — rather than whether they're something Oracle herself would wear.)

This being a '90s comic book by right-wing homophobe Chuck Dixon, there are of course various no-homo evasions throughout, but I'm not sure how one is supposed to not read this as kind of gay. The second BIRDS OF PREY story, which teams Black Canary and Lois Lane (and is written not by Dixon, but by Jordan B. Gorfinkel, the editor of the initial special), has this little aside:

There's no way anyone writing something like this in 1995–96 wouldn't know how people were likely to read this. (Dinah does know that Oracle is a woman even in their first adventure, and while Babs typically distorts her voice when communicating with people as Oracle, it doesn't appear that she does that with Dinah.)

After a while, Dinah does become curious to know more about Oracle, but Babs refuses to let Dinah actually see her. Eventually, though, circumstances force the issue in BIRDS OF PREY #21:

Dixon's script for this issue contained the following note for artist Butch Guice:

The more drama you can squeeze from this the better. We’re going for The Pieta as opposed to anything that HINTS of the sexual. This scene is apparently RIPE for misinterpretation (or OVERinterpretation.) by some of our readers.

Mission accomplished — no lesbian implications here, boss!

So, as you can see, they have the "be gay" part down pretty well, and you may also be assured that Babs spends this series doing crimes. As a hacker, she of course commits computer fraud on the regular, breaking into restricted and classified systems (she's hacked the military GPS constellation so she can track Dinah, for instance), but she also routinely steals as much money as she needs to finance whatever equipment she needs and keep her girlfriend partner and their ever-growing list of attractive female cohorts in hot cars and fancy underwear. Vigilante superheroes generally take a pretty selective attitude about the law, but the number of felonies this once rather prim policeman's daughter and one-time congresswoman perpetrates honestly puts Catwoman to shame. The stories are frustratingly stupid and the art only gets hornier as it goes on, but what a good series this could have been if it were actually good.

[kiisuuumii]

steeeeeeeeppphhh :3c

for the ask game, 4, 13, 28?

kara !!!! :DD

4. what’s an inside joke you have with your family or friends?

my d&d group just collectively decided that our sorcerer/rogue tiefling was french one day if that counts

13. what are you doing right now?

other than answering your ask, i was about to work on my little thing i started earlier this week ! i'd like to keep what it is a secret just for now, but it does have me looking back into my archive a tad bit :3c (i'm so glad i stuck to trying to keep a consistent sorting system; it's really helped me find stuff ;w;)

28. do you collect anything?

very many things actually !! i have a crystal collection, a tarot/oracle collection, and a kpop (mainly nct) photocard collection right now, and i like to hold onto movie tickets if that counts (though i don't really put them anywhere..........)

i'm also starting to collect smiskis agkfdhj i have three right now but oaaughh i want more of him !!!!!!!

[tobiasdrake]

I am not okay.

Alright. One last ride. How do we do this?

Information that the Elder Mist probably could have just given us himself. Garl got it from a vision that Elder Mist's spring gave him. But if Elder Mist told us, then there wouldn't be a reason for Garl to use Borrowed Time.

The prophecy isn't for achieving the goal. It's for us. It's using him as a superfluous exposition vessel so that we can have one last ride with our bestie. T-T

Of course, Serai still has portals galore and we just established that she can use them to cross the globe; Between that and the Torment portal, there doesn't seem to be much limiting her in terms of size, distance, or duration. But we'll ignore that.

Maybe it's personal. For a whatever she is, asking to use her portal could be like asking someone to take their pants off. It might be a more intimate request than it seems. Who knows?

What, again? We were already so far behind on figuring this shit out that the Oracle of Tides made fun of us for it.

*sigh* We really are the remedial course of legendary super-warriors, aren't we?

Yeah, the Sky Bridge or Sky Shrine or something. I found it while I was faffing about but there wasn't anything to do there. If up is where we need to go, then that seems like our best ticket to the sky.

Is there a bridge? Is there a lever on the other side that can send over a bridge? Because one of us can portal and hit the lever, if there is. Or one of us can turn into a huge bird and hit the lever. Either way, we have options to send individual members of the group across; We's just lacking a way to get the whole group over there.

My prophecy did say I can make paths across water. That's been bugging me, since all I did was take a swing at Fleshy, then turn into a glow-ball and fly. Both satisfying experiences but neither really counts as "making paths across water".

But maybe this is my time.

The Versus community is going to lose their fucking minds.

Well, actually, they've probably already calc'd me at Solar System level via a disingenuous estimate of me moving the moon around, as if I were doing that with my bare hands.

Point is, I'm really cool and we should all shower me with praise. That's the point. I am ready to accept your praise.

Yes. Yeees. Feed the ego.

That is definitely a teleporter. We must be getting close because you don't enter the Kingdom of Zeal until the last third of the game.

I wonder what keeps these chunks of earth aloft. Is it the spiral pattern? I bet it's the spiral pattern. There's probably some kind of... inherent mysticism in....

That's stupid. I'll just ask Teaks when I get a chance.

In any case, I guess we're here to get somebody's permission to cross the Sea of Stars. Let's get to work.

I did, yes. I'm not 100% sure that Luana reincarnated into me but I'm willing to create that as dogma. Or, like, maybe I'm a timeline variant of her. I don't know, but I am eager to get that rumor started.

Also, you are way too huge. Could you. Like. Be less huge? These platforms must be tiny for a person of your size. Y'all must have incredible nimbleness to be comfortable walking around on these tiny little stepping stones.

Like mountain goats.

This inn is like a closet for you. How do you people live like this?

You have a Wheels table. How do you even see the dials? Your ridiculous size is so incongruent to the layout of your city! How did this happen!?

Alright, team. Here's the plan:

Garl's in charge. He's making the plans. I've got nothing. I barely even know what we're doing here.

The important thing is that we stay on-task so that Garl's enchantment doesn't wear off. But also that we take our sweet time carrying out our task so that we can maximize the amount of time we have left with our dear friend.

Think of this like a contract assignment with an hourly wage. As long as we're working on the job, we keep getting paid until the moment it's done. But there's no clear deadline for when that has to be, so sandbag it.

[slcwshow]

reading your daily horoscope. making up constellations. going where the wind takes you. life on the road. lazy summer afternoons. a ring on every finger. silver necklaces and patterned shirts. a collage of posters and concert tickets. the alleged van. an impulsive tattoo, given by a friend. talking late into the night. a smoky laugh. the mysteries of the universe. dying your own hair. hands covered in clay. befriending the neighbourhood cats.

statistics.

full name:  felix tagana-aguirre nickname(s): fe (fee) name meaning:  happy, fortunate age:  twenty-six date of birth:  june 29th star sign:  cancer place of birth:  castle village, galdoran current location:  wherever the road takes them (but, like, pelican town) gender:  non-binary pronouns:  he/they sexual orientation:  pansexual occupation:  travelling merchant family:  nicanor “nic” tagana-aguirre (father), sara tagana-aguirre (mother), carmen tagana-aguirre (older sister) education level:  high school graduate (barely) living arrangements:  lives in his van (which is also his shop) loved gifts:  coconut, spicy eel, clay hated gifts:  mayonnaise, coleslaw, raisins

biography.

Felix was born in Castle Village, a distant town known for its community of adventurers.

His mother and father, Sara and Nic, perhaps aren’t the sort of people you’d immediately associate with heroics and monster slaying. They’re both bermuda-shorts-wearing, fanny-pack-owning, glasses-on-a-string-around-the-neck types, aggressively pleasant and unfailingly kind. Their interest is less in killing monsters as it is in researching them, and they established the local tourist trap museum as a means of displaying all they've discovered.

Always an aimless kind of kid, Danny imagined they’d spend most of their life working the desk at his parents' museum, because it was easy and didn't require any major planning on their part. Their mom and dad are very supportive of their youngest child, to the point where it might've actually been hindering their ability to grow as adult, so Felix never felt any great pressure to get their life started.

Ultimately his impetus to leave Castle Village came on the back of the breakup of his first major relationship (they decided to just be friends, which is chill). Felix finally got around to fixing up the old van that'd sat on his parents' drive for the last eight years, and set off on his travels.

They’ve been roaming around the Ferngill Republic for the better part of a year now, collecting things from all over the continent and selling them to the residents of the small towns he passes through. It's a pretty sweet existence, all things considered, and he wonders if he'll ever feel inclined to settle in one place again.

other things.

Felix tunes into Welwick’s Oracle on the radio every day, and always checks his horoscope in the newspaper (even if he doesn’t intend to buy it).

Their van is a complete jalopy, but the exterior is painted with a mural of the night sky, done by their own hand.

He’s a pretty good potter, but would probably be a great potter if he spent more time practising… or if he had somewhere to fire the ceramics he makes.

A not-insignificant portion of the van's interior storage is taken up by tapes. Felix keeps telling themselves they’ll upgrade their music system to a CD player one of these days, but they never quite get around to it.

Even though he's only in town a couple of days a week, Felix is some kind of videogame savant, and currently holds the high score on the Journey to the Prairie King arcade machine at the Stardrop Saloon.

Sincerely believes in all things supernatural, and is very knowledgeable on the topic thanks to his parents.

They’ve played bass since they were a kid, and used to be in a band with their high school friends (they weren’t very good).

[erpsoftwaredubaiuae]

CRM Software Integration with ERP Systems in the UAE: A Complete Guide

In the rapidly evolving business environment of the UAE, efficiency, accuracy, and customer satisfaction are critical for success. To achieve these goals, businesses are increasingly turning to integrated technology solutions. One of the most impactful combinations is CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software integrated with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems.

This guide explores the importance, benefits, challenges, and best practices for integrating CRM and ERP software in the UAE.

Why Integration Matters in the UAE Market

Businesses in the UAE operate in a highly competitive and fast-paced economy, especially in sectors like retail, real estate, trading, and services. Separate CRM and ERP systems may result in:

Data silos

Communication gaps

Duplicate entries

Delayed decision-making

CRM software focuses on managing customer relationships, sales pipelines, and marketing campaigns, while ERP systems handle finance, inventory, HR, and operations. Integrating the two ensures real-time collaboration between front-end customer service and back-end business processes—essential for seamless operations in the UAE’s dynamic market.

Key Benefits of CRM and ERP Integration

Unified Customer Data Integration gives businesses a 360-degree view of customers—purchase history, support tickets, invoices, delivery status—all in one place.

Improved Sales and Order Management Sales teams can access real-time inventory and pricing data directly from the ERP system while working in the CRM interface.

Streamlined Operations Integration reduces manual data entry and synchronization errors, improving productivity across departments.

Better Decision-Making With accurate, consolidated data, managers in the UAE can make quicker, data-driven decisions.

Enhanced Customer Experience Faster response times, personalized service, and better order tracking result in improved customer satisfaction.

Popular CRM and ERP Solutions in the UAE

Many UAE businesses rely on leading software platforms for CRM and ERP needs, such as:

CRM: Zoho CRM, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Freshsales

ERP: SAP Business One, Oracle NetSuite, TallyPrime, Focus ERP, Odoo

These solutions often provide native or API-based integration capabilities, making it easier for UAE companies to connect their systems.

Challenges in CRM-ERP Integration

While the benefits are clear, integration can be complex:

Data inconsistency: Aligning data formats between CRM and ERP requires careful mapping.

Customization requirements: UAE companies often need tailored solutions due to specific VAT rules or bilingual (Arabic-English) interfaces.

Cost and resources: Integration may require investment in middleware, APIs, or third-party services.

Change management: Staff training and adaptation are essential for successful implementation.

Best Practices for Successful Integration

Define Clear Objectives Outline what you want to achieve—faster sales cycles, improved reporting, or better inventory management.

Choose Compatible Platforms Opt for CRM and ERP systems that support seamless integration or come from the same vendor (e.g., Microsoft Dynamics 365).

Use Integration Middleware Tools like Zapier, MuleSoft, or custom APIs can bridge the gap between CRM and ERP platforms.

Ensure Data Cleanliness Eliminate duplicates and standardize data before integration to prevent downstream issues.

Test Thoroughly Run end-to-end testing across departments before going live.

Work with Local Experts Partnering with UAE-based software consultants ensures compliance with regional laws and cultural considerations.

Conclusion

For UAE businesses aiming to enhance operational efficiency and deliver superior customer experiences, integrating CRM Software UAE with ERP systems is no longer optional—it’s essential. By bridging the gap between customer interactions and back-end processes, organizations can build smarter, more responsive, and scalable operations.

Whether you are a retail chain in Dubai, a logistics company in Abu Dhabi, or a service provider in Sharjah, investing in CRM-ERP integration can set you apart in today’s competitive marketplace.

[tameblog]

The premise of the critically panned 1996 film Bio-Dome is closer to our reality than I’d like to admit. In it, the planet has become so polluted it’s rapidly becoming unsuitable for human life. (Sound familiar?) With the backing of a powerful investor, a group of environmental scientists seal themselves in an enormous enclosed terrarium for a year as part of a climate experiment. In true ’90s slacker comedy fashion, the two stoner protagonists accidentally get themselves locked inside the Bio-Dome, and, of course, wreak havoc. Though the film’s plot is fictional, its premise is loosely based on the real-life Biosphere 2, a $150-million hermetically sealed environmental system in Oracle, Arizona, with wilderness biomes including a rainforest, desert, grassy savannah, mangrove wetlands, and a 25-foot-deep ocean with a coral reef, in which eight researchers actually lived between 1991 and 1993. The experiment famously ended in disaster when rising carbon dioxide levels and crop failure threatened the participants’ lives. While geodesic domes with controlled environments designed to replicate Earth’s ecosystems seemed eccentric in the early 1990s, when climate change was just starting to enter the mainstream discourse, in the decades since, multimillion- or billion-dollar developments that bring the natural world—or simulations of it—inside have become increasingly common. In some cases, like with "the world’s largest indoor desert" in Omaha, Nebraska, or Montreal’s Biosphère (housed in the Expo 67 geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller), these attractions are centered around education and research. Then, there’s a slightly different iteration developed purely for recreation. As global temperatures rise and "unprecedented weather events" occur with increasing regularity, there might be a future where more of our outdoor recreation will be relegated to indoor simulations. In some ways, these built environments are case studies for how successfully (or unsuccessfully) natural environments can be replicated to facilitate the human pastimes—like surfing or skiing, even hiking—that rely on them. The indoor "beach" at the New Century Global Center in Chengdu—one of China’s most polluted cities—is illuminated by an artificial sun.Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group’s Seagaia Ocean Dome was an early example of the over-the-top-faux-natural-environment-as-amusement-park phenomenon. Opened in 1993, the $1.8 billion facility, which was situated less than .2 miles from an actual beach in the coastal city of Miyazaki, Japan, was a Polynesia-themed marvel with a 129,166-square-foot man-made beach with sand from crushed marble and a wave machine capable of 200 surfable variations (in unsalted, chlorinated water). It closed in 2007, faltering under steep ticket prices and operational costs, but that wasn’t the end of the road for artificial beaches. There’s one at the colossal New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China, with space for more than 6,000 beachgoers to lounge under its fake sun. At Berlin’s Tropical Islands, which is housed in a 1938 airfield hangar, a massive screen with a photo of a blue sky hovers above a "sea" made up by three Olympic-size swimming pools. The indoor air temperature is kept in the high seventies. On the other end of the weather spectrum, there are indoor ski resorts like Ski Dubai, a 242,000-square-foot "snow park" in the Mall of the Emirates, where 30 to 40 tons of new snow are produced nightly to blanket five imitation ski slopes, or Big Snow American Dream, North America’s only indoor ski resort, in New Jersey. Ironically, the environmental impact of many of these climate-controlled facilities is significant; a 2013 report, for example, estimated that Ski Dubai’s annual greenhouse gas emissions equate to 900 annual round-trip flights from Dubai to Munich. Massive developments like Ski Dubai or Paradise Island Water Park that simulate natural environments in contained spaces pump tons of carbon into the atmosphere, only exacerbating the factors that increasingly threaten those places and make their conditions more hostile. Ski Dubai’s artificial snow is produced similarly to how faux snow is made at outdoor ski resorts.Christiana Moss of Studio Ma, an award-winning architecture and environmental design studio in Phoenix, Arizona, has some ideas about the way we should be approaching buildings that bring the outdoors indoors. As temperatures increase, especially in places like Phoenix, Moss believes more structures need to be suited to not only controlling contrasting indoor climates, but tempering them with the heat outside. "Increasingly, the realm of what you would consider indoors and what we consider outdoors needs to be expanded and blended to temper exterior temperatures," she says. "It’s about the layers of interior and exterior space.... It’s a huge opportunity for really rethinking and redesigning what we consider to be indoors and outdoors, what we consider to be responsible cities, and how we think about access to shade in daylight." The 3.14-acre Biosphere 2 laboratory includes "active research systems" such as ocean and desert environments and a rainforest ecosystem (pictured).Another major factor to consider is the growing body of research supporting the benefits of access to nature on physical and mental health. "In Eastern megacities, an indoor/outdoor environment is an easier way to access ‘natural’ space," says space architect Vittorio Netti, who works as a professor at University of Houston and also as an aerospace engineer at Axiom Space, referring to how for someone living in a cramped megacity, indoor "beaches" with real sand or enclosed "forests" with actual flora can provide easier access to elements of the natural world.Netti, who has spent significant time testing out simulated spaces for his work, believes that future luxury and quality of life will be defined by access to natural spaces. He stresses there are two overlooked areas in considering the design of enclosed "nature" simulations for humans: circadian rhythm and smell. To be truly convincing, faux natural environments should incorporate changes in light and darkness over a roughly 24-hour cycle. And they shouldn’t be sterile.The original Biosphere 2 experiment failed colossally when carbon dioxide levels in the self-contained bubble rose 10 times the normal atmospheric amount, making the enclosed ecosystem uninhabitable. In 2021, a Scientific American article that referred to the live-in terrarium as "effectively like a time machine that can preview a climate-altered Earth" detailed how, after a few decades and some significant retooling, the facility is finally living up to its potential as a site for important climate research. But the focus of its experiments are now centered on narrower questions about our real planet, rather than a man-made re-creation. According to astrobiologist Jacob Haqq Misra, who studies planet habitability and authored the book Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values Through Space Settlement, a dystopian vision of a future reliant on sealed ecosystems for "outdoor" recreation is more something of the public imagination than a prediction from actual experts. "The good news is, it would take a lot to make planet Earth uninhabitable," says Misra. Source link

[ramestoryworld]

The premise of the critically panned 1996 film Bio-Dome is closer to our reality than I’d like to admit. In it, the planet has become so polluted it’s rapidly becoming unsuitable for human life. (Sound familiar?) With the backing of a powerful investor, a group of environmental scientists seal themselves in an enormous enclosed terrarium for a year as part of a climate experiment. In true ’90s slacker comedy fashion, the two stoner protagonists accidentally get themselves locked inside the Bio-Dome, and, of course, wreak havoc. Though the film’s plot is fictional, its premise is loosely based on the real-life Biosphere 2, a $150-million hermetically sealed environmental system in Oracle, Arizona, with wilderness biomes including a rainforest, desert, grassy savannah, mangrove wetlands, and a 25-foot-deep ocean with a coral reef, in which eight researchers actually lived between 1991 and 1993. The experiment famously ended in disaster when rising carbon dioxide levels and crop failure threatened the participants’ lives. While geodesic domes with controlled environments designed to replicate Earth’s ecosystems seemed eccentric in the early 1990s, when climate change was just starting to enter the mainstream discourse, in the decades since, multimillion- or billion-dollar developments that bring the natural world—or simulations of it—inside have become increasingly common. In some cases, like with "the world’s largest indoor desert" in Omaha, Nebraska, or Montreal’s Biosphère (housed in the Expo 67 geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller), these attractions are centered around education and research. Then, there’s a slightly different iteration developed purely for recreation. As global temperatures rise and "unprecedented weather events" occur with increasing regularity, there might be a future where more of our outdoor recreation will be relegated to indoor simulations. In some ways, these built environments are case studies for how successfully (or unsuccessfully) natural environments can be replicated to facilitate the human pastimes—like surfing or skiing, even hiking—that rely on them. The indoor "beach" at the New Century Global Center in Chengdu—one of China’s most polluted cities—is illuminated by an artificial sun.Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group’s Seagaia Ocean Dome was an early example of the over-the-top-faux-natural-environment-as-amusement-park phenomenon. Opened in 1993, the $1.8 billion facility, which was situated less than .2 miles from an actual beach in the coastal city of Miyazaki, Japan, was a Polynesia-themed marvel with a 129,166-square-foot man-made beach with sand from crushed marble and a wave machine capable of 200 surfable variations (in unsalted, chlorinated water). It closed in 2007, faltering under steep ticket prices and operational costs, but that wasn’t the end of the road for artificial beaches. There’s one at the colossal New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China, with space for more than 6,000 beachgoers to lounge under its fake sun. At Berlin’s Tropical Islands, which is housed in a 1938 airfield hangar, a massive screen with a photo of a blue sky hovers above a "sea" made up by three Olympic-size swimming pools. The indoor air temperature is kept in the high seventies. On the other end of the weather spectrum, there are indoor ski resorts like Ski Dubai, a 242,000-square-foot "snow park" in the Mall of the Emirates, where 30 to 40 tons of new snow are produced nightly to blanket five imitation ski slopes, or Big Snow American Dream, North America’s only indoor ski resort, in New Jersey. Ironically, the environmental impact of many of these climate-controlled facilities is significant; a 2013 report, for example, estimated that Ski Dubai’s annual greenhouse gas emissions equate to 900 annual round-trip flights from Dubai to Munich. Massive developments like Ski Dubai or Paradise Island Water Park that simulate natural environments in contained spaces pump tons of carbon into the atmosphere, only exacerbating the factors that increasingly threaten those places and make their conditions more hostile. Ski Dubai’s artificial snow is produced similarly to how faux snow is made at outdoor ski resorts.Christiana Moss of Studio Ma, an award-winning architecture and environmental design studio in Phoenix, Arizona, has some ideas about the way we should be approaching buildings that bring the outdoors indoors. As temperatures increase, especially in places like Phoenix, Moss believes more structures need to be suited to not only controlling contrasting indoor climates, but tempering them with the heat outside. "Increasingly, the realm of what you would consider indoors and what we consider outdoors needs to be expanded and blended to temper exterior temperatures," she says. "It’s about the layers of interior and exterior space.... It’s a huge opportunity for really rethinking and redesigning what we consider to be indoors and outdoors, what we consider to be responsible cities, and how we think about access to shade in daylight." The 3.14-acre Biosphere 2 laboratory includes "active research systems" such as ocean and desert environments and a rainforest ecosystem (pictured).Another major factor to consider is the growing body of research supporting the benefits of access to nature on physical and mental health. "In Eastern megacities, an indoor/outdoor environment is an easier way to access ‘natural’ space," says space architect Vittorio Netti, who works as a professor at University of Houston and also as an aerospace engineer at Axiom Space, referring to how for someone living in a cramped megacity, indoor "beaches" with real sand or enclosed "forests" with actual flora can provide easier access to elements of the natural world.Netti, who has spent significant time testing out simulated spaces for his work, believes that future luxury and quality of life will be defined by access to natural spaces. He stresses there are two overlooked areas in considering the design of enclosed "nature" simulations for humans: circadian rhythm and smell. To be truly convincing, faux natural environments should incorporate changes in light and darkness over a roughly 24-hour cycle. And they shouldn’t be sterile.The original Biosphere 2 experiment failed colossally when carbon dioxide levels in the self-contained bubble rose 10 times the normal atmospheric amount, making the enclosed ecosystem uninhabitable. In 2021, a Scientific American article that referred to the live-in terrarium as "effectively like a time machine that can preview a climate-altered Earth" detailed how, after a few decades and some significant retooling, the facility is finally living up to its potential as a site for important climate research. But the focus of its experiments are now centered on narrower questions about our real planet, rather than a man-made re-creation. According to astrobiologist Jacob Haqq Misra, who studies planet habitability and authored the book Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values Through Space Settlement, a dystopian vision of a future reliant on sealed ecosystems for "outdoor" recreation is more something of the public imagination than a prediction from actual experts. "The good news is, it would take a lot to make planet Earth uninhabitable," says Misra. Source link

[alexha2210]

The premise of the critically panned 1996 film Bio-Dome is closer to our reality than I’d like to admit. In it, the planet has become so polluted it’s rapidly becoming unsuitable for human life. (Sound familiar?) With the backing of a powerful investor, a group of environmental scientists seal themselves in an enormous enclosed terrarium for a year as part of a climate experiment. In true ’90s slacker comedy fashion, the two stoner protagonists accidentally get themselves locked inside the Bio-Dome, and, of course, wreak havoc. Though the film’s plot is fictional, its premise is loosely based on the real-life Biosphere 2, a $150-million hermetically sealed environmental system in Oracle, Arizona, with wilderness biomes including a rainforest, desert, grassy savannah, mangrove wetlands, and a 25-foot-deep ocean with a coral reef, in which eight researchers actually lived between 1991 and 1993. The experiment famously ended in disaster when rising carbon dioxide levels and crop failure threatened the participants’ lives. While geodesic domes with controlled environments designed to replicate Earth’s ecosystems seemed eccentric in the early 1990s, when climate change was just starting to enter the mainstream discourse, in the decades since, multimillion- or billion-dollar developments that bring the natural world—or simulations of it—inside have become increasingly common. In some cases, like with "the world’s largest indoor desert" in Omaha, Nebraska, or Montreal’s Biosphère (housed in the Expo 67 geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller), these attractions are centered around education and research. Then, there’s a slightly different iteration developed purely for recreation. As global temperatures rise and "unprecedented weather events" occur with increasing regularity, there might be a future where more of our outdoor recreation will be relegated to indoor simulations. In some ways, these built environments are case studies for how successfully (or unsuccessfully) natural environments can be replicated to facilitate the human pastimes—like surfing or skiing, even hiking—that rely on them. The indoor "beach" at the New Century Global Center in Chengdu—one of China’s most polluted cities—is illuminated by an artificial sun.Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group’s Seagaia Ocean Dome was an early example of the over-the-top-faux-natural-environment-as-amusement-park phenomenon. Opened in 1993, the $1.8 billion facility, which was situated less than .2 miles from an actual beach in the coastal city of Miyazaki, Japan, was a Polynesia-themed marvel with a 129,166-square-foot man-made beach with sand from crushed marble and a wave machine capable of 200 surfable variations (in unsalted, chlorinated water). It closed in 2007, faltering under steep ticket prices and operational costs, but that wasn’t the end of the road for artificial beaches. There’s one at the colossal New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China, with space for more than 6,000 beachgoers to lounge under its fake sun. At Berlin’s Tropical Islands, which is housed in a 1938 airfield hangar, a massive screen with a photo of a blue sky hovers above a "sea" made up by three Olympic-size swimming pools. The indoor air temperature is kept in the high seventies. On the other end of the weather spectrum, there are indoor ski resorts like Ski Dubai, a 242,000-square-foot "snow park" in the Mall of the Emirates, where 30 to 40 tons of new snow are produced nightly to blanket five imitation ski slopes, or Big Snow American Dream, North America’s only indoor ski resort, in New Jersey. Ironically, the environmental impact of many of these climate-controlled facilities is significant; a 2013 report, for example, estimated that Ski Dubai’s annual greenhouse gas emissions equate to 900 annual round-trip flights from Dubai to Munich. Massive developments like Ski Dubai or Paradise Island Water Park that simulate natural environments in contained spaces pump tons of carbon into the atmosphere, only exacerbating the factors that increasingly threaten those places and make their conditions more hostile. Ski Dubai’s artificial snow is produced similarly to how faux snow is made at outdoor ski resorts.Christiana Moss of Studio Ma, an award-winning architecture and environmental design studio in Phoenix, Arizona, has some ideas about the way we should be approaching buildings that bring the outdoors indoors. As temperatures increase, especially in places like Phoenix, Moss believes more structures need to be suited to not only controlling contrasting indoor climates, but tempering them with the heat outside. "Increasingly, the realm of what you would consider indoors and what we consider outdoors needs to be expanded and blended to temper exterior temperatures," she says. "It’s about the layers of interior and exterior space.... It’s a huge opportunity for really rethinking and redesigning what we consider to be indoors and outdoors, what we consider to be responsible cities, and how we think about access to shade in daylight." The 3.14-acre Biosphere 2 laboratory includes "active research systems" such as ocean and desert environments and a rainforest ecosystem (pictured).Another major factor to consider is the growing body of research supporting the benefits of access to nature on physical and mental health. "In Eastern megacities, an indoor/outdoor environment is an easier way to access ‘natural’ space," says space architect Vittorio Netti, who works as a professor at University of Houston and also as an aerospace engineer at Axiom Space, referring to how for someone living in a cramped megacity, indoor "beaches" with real sand or enclosed "forests" with actual flora can provide easier access to elements of the natural world.Netti, who has spent significant time testing out simulated spaces for his work, believes that future luxury and quality of life will be defined by access to natural spaces. He stresses there are two overlooked areas in considering the design of enclosed "nature" simulations for humans: circadian rhythm and smell. To be truly convincing, faux natural environments should incorporate changes in light and darkness over a roughly 24-hour cycle. And they shouldn’t be sterile.The original Biosphere 2 experiment failed colossally when carbon dioxide levels in the self-contained bubble rose 10 times the normal atmospheric amount, making the enclosed ecosystem uninhabitable. In 2021, a Scientific American article that referred to the live-in terrarium as "effectively like a time machine that can preview a climate-altered Earth" detailed how, after a few decades and some significant retooling, the facility is finally living up to its potential as a site for important climate research. But the focus of its experiments are now centered on narrower questions about our real planet, rather than a man-made re-creation. According to astrobiologist Jacob Haqq Misra, who studies planet habitability and authored the book Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values Through Space Settlement, a dystopian vision of a future reliant on sealed ecosystems for "outdoor" recreation is more something of the public imagination than a prediction from actual experts. "The good news is, it would take a lot to make planet Earth uninhabitable," says Misra. Source link

[angusstory]

The premise of the critically panned 1996 film Bio-Dome is closer to our reality than I’d like to admit. In it, the planet has become so polluted it’s rapidly becoming unsuitable for human life. (Sound familiar?) With the backing of a powerful investor, a group of environmental scientists seal themselves in an enormous enclosed terrarium for a year as part of a climate experiment. In true ’90s slacker comedy fashion, the two stoner protagonists accidentally get themselves locked inside the Bio-Dome, and, of course, wreak havoc. Though the film’s plot is fictional, its premise is loosely based on the real-life Biosphere 2, a $150-million hermetically sealed environmental system in Oracle, Arizona, with wilderness biomes including a rainforest, desert, grassy savannah, mangrove wetlands, and a 25-foot-deep ocean with a coral reef, in which eight researchers actually lived between 1991 and 1993. The experiment famously ended in disaster when rising carbon dioxide levels and crop failure threatened the participants’ lives. While geodesic domes with controlled environments designed to replicate Earth’s ecosystems seemed eccentric in the early 1990s, when climate change was just starting to enter the mainstream discourse, in the decades since, multimillion- or billion-dollar developments that bring the natural world—or simulations of it—inside have become increasingly common. In some cases, like with "the world’s largest indoor desert" in Omaha, Nebraska, or Montreal’s Biosphère (housed in the Expo 67 geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller), these attractions are centered around education and research. Then, there’s a slightly different iteration developed purely for recreation. As global temperatures rise and "unprecedented weather events" occur with increasing regularity, there might be a future where more of our outdoor recreation will be relegated to indoor simulations. In some ways, these built environments are case studies for how successfully (or unsuccessfully) natural environments can be replicated to facilitate the human pastimes—like surfing or skiing, even hiking—that rely on them. The indoor "beach" at the New Century Global Center in Chengdu—one of China’s most polluted cities—is illuminated by an artificial sun.Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group’s Seagaia Ocean Dome was an early example of the over-the-top-faux-natural-environment-as-amusement-park phenomenon. Opened in 1993, the $1.8 billion facility, which was situated less than .2 miles from an actual beach in the coastal city of Miyazaki, Japan, was a Polynesia-themed marvel with a 129,166-square-foot man-made beach with sand from crushed marble and a wave machine capable of 200 surfable variations (in unsalted, chlorinated water). It closed in 2007, faltering under steep ticket prices and operational costs, but that wasn’t the end of the road for artificial beaches. There’s one at the colossal New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China, with space for more than 6,000 beachgoers to lounge under its fake sun. At Berlin’s Tropical Islands, which is housed in a 1938 airfield hangar, a massive screen with a photo of a blue sky hovers above a "sea" made up by three Olympic-size swimming pools. The indoor air temperature is kept in the high seventies. On the other end of the weather spectrum, there are indoor ski resorts like Ski Dubai, a 242,000-square-foot "snow park" in the Mall of the Emirates, where 30 to 40 tons of new snow are produced nightly to blanket five imitation ski slopes, or Big Snow American Dream, North America’s only indoor ski resort, in New Jersey. Ironically, the environmental impact of many of these climate-controlled facilities is significant; a 2013 report, for example, estimated that Ski Dubai’s annual greenhouse gas emissions equate to 900 annual round-trip flights from Dubai to Munich. Massive developments like Ski Dubai or Paradise Island Water Park that simulate natural environments in contained spaces pump tons of carbon into the atmosphere, only exacerbating the factors that increasingly threaten those places and make their conditions more hostile. Ski Dubai’s artificial snow is produced similarly to how faux snow is made at outdoor ski resorts.Christiana Moss of Studio Ma, an award-winning architecture and environmental design studio in Phoenix, Arizona, has some ideas about the way we should be approaching buildings that bring the outdoors indoors. As temperatures increase, especially in places like Phoenix, Moss believes more structures need to be suited to not only controlling contrasting indoor climates, but tempering them with the heat outside. "Increasingly, the realm of what you would consider indoors and what we consider outdoors needs to be expanded and blended to temper exterior temperatures," she says. "It’s about the layers of interior and exterior space.... It’s a huge opportunity for really rethinking and redesigning what we consider to be indoors and outdoors, what we consider to be responsible cities, and how we think about access to shade in daylight." The 3.14-acre Biosphere 2 laboratory includes "active research systems" such as ocean and desert environments and a rainforest ecosystem (pictured).Another major factor to consider is the growing body of research supporting the benefits of access to nature on physical and mental health. "In Eastern megacities, an indoor/outdoor environment is an easier way to access ‘natural’ space," says space architect Vittorio Netti, who works as a professor at University of Houston and also as an aerospace engineer at Axiom Space, referring to how for someone living in a cramped megacity, indoor "beaches" with real sand or enclosed "forests" with actual flora can provide easier access to elements of the natural world.Netti, who has spent significant time testing out simulated spaces for his work, believes that future luxury and quality of life will be defined by access to natural spaces. He stresses there are two overlooked areas in considering the design of enclosed "nature" simulations for humans: circadian rhythm and smell. To be truly convincing, faux natural environments should incorporate changes in light and darkness over a roughly 24-hour cycle. And they shouldn’t be sterile.The original Biosphere 2 experiment failed colossally when carbon dioxide levels in the self-contained bubble rose 10 times the normal atmospheric amount, making the enclosed ecosystem uninhabitable. In 2021, a Scientific American article that referred to the live-in terrarium as "effectively like a time machine that can preview a climate-altered Earth" detailed how, after a few decades and some significant retooling, the facility is finally living up to its potential as a site for important climate research. But the focus of its experiments are now centered on narrower questions about our real planet, rather than a man-made re-creation. According to astrobiologist Jacob Haqq Misra, who studies planet habitability and authored the book Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values Through Space Settlement, a dystopian vision of a future reliant on sealed ecosystems for "outdoor" recreation is more something of the public imagination than a prediction from actual experts. "The good news is, it would take a lot to make planet Earth uninhabitable," says Misra. Source link

[tumibaba]

The premise of the critically panned 1996 film Bio-Dome is closer to our reality than I’d like to admit. In it, the planet has become so polluted it’s rapidly becoming unsuitable for human life. (Sound familiar?) With the backing of a powerful investor, a group of environmental scientists seal themselves in an enormous enclosed terrarium for a year as part of a climate experiment. In true ’90s slacker comedy fashion, the two stoner protagonists accidentally get themselves locked inside the Bio-Dome, and, of course, wreak havoc. Though the film’s plot is fictional, its premise is loosely based on the real-life Biosphere 2, a $150-million hermetically sealed environmental system in Oracle, Arizona, with wilderness biomes including a rainforest, desert, grassy savannah, mangrove wetlands, and a 25-foot-deep ocean with a coral reef, in which eight researchers actually lived between 1991 and 1993. The experiment famously ended in disaster when rising carbon dioxide levels and crop failure threatened the participants’ lives. While geodesic domes with controlled environments designed to replicate Earth’s ecosystems seemed eccentric in the early 1990s, when climate change was just starting to enter the mainstream discourse, in the decades since, multimillion- or billion-dollar developments that bring the natural world—or simulations of it—inside have become increasingly common. In some cases, like with "the world’s largest indoor desert" in Omaha, Nebraska, or Montreal’s Biosphère (housed in the Expo 67 geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller), these attractions are centered around education and research. Then, there’s a slightly different iteration developed purely for recreation. As global temperatures rise and "unprecedented weather events" occur with increasing regularity, there might be a future where more of our outdoor recreation will be relegated to indoor simulations. In some ways, these built environments are case studies for how successfully (or unsuccessfully) natural environments can be replicated to facilitate the human pastimes—like surfing or skiing, even hiking—that rely on them. The indoor "beach" at the New Century Global Center in Chengdu—one of China’s most polluted cities—is illuminated by an artificial sun.Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group’s Seagaia Ocean Dome was an early example of the over-the-top-faux-natural-environment-as-amusement-park phenomenon. Opened in 1993, the $1.8 billion facility, which was situated less than .2 miles from an actual beach in the coastal city of Miyazaki, Japan, was a Polynesia-themed marvel with a 129,166-square-foot man-made beach with sand from crushed marble and a wave machine capable of 200 surfable variations (in unsalted, chlorinated water). It closed in 2007, faltering under steep ticket prices and operational costs, but that wasn’t the end of the road for artificial beaches. There’s one at the colossal New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China, with space for more than 6,000 beachgoers to lounge under its fake sun. At Berlin’s Tropical Islands, which is housed in a 1938 airfield hangar, a massive screen with a photo of a blue sky hovers above a "sea" made up by three Olympic-size swimming pools. The indoor air temperature is kept in the high seventies. On the other end of the weather spectrum, there are indoor ski resorts like Ski Dubai, a 242,000-square-foot "snow park" in the Mall of the Emirates, where 30 to 40 tons of new snow are produced nightly to blanket five imitation ski slopes, or Big Snow American Dream, North America’s only indoor ski resort, in New Jersey. Ironically, the environmental impact of many of these climate-controlled facilities is significant; a 2013 report, for example, estimated that Ski Dubai’s annual greenhouse gas emissions equate to 900 annual round-trip flights from Dubai to Munich. Massive developments like Ski Dubai or Paradise Island Water Park that simulate natural environments in contained spaces pump tons of carbon into the atmosphere, only exacerbating the factors that increasingly threaten those places and make their conditions more hostile. Ski Dubai’s artificial snow is produced similarly to how faux snow is made at outdoor ski resorts.Christiana Moss of Studio Ma, an award-winning architecture and environmental design studio in Phoenix, Arizona, has some ideas about the way we should be approaching buildings that bring the outdoors indoors. As temperatures increase, especially in places like Phoenix, Moss believes more structures need to be suited to not only controlling contrasting indoor climates, but tempering them with the heat outside. "Increasingly, the realm of what you would consider indoors and what we consider outdoors needs to be expanded and blended to temper exterior temperatures," she says. "It’s about the layers of interior and exterior space.... It’s a huge opportunity for really rethinking and redesigning what we consider to be indoors and outdoors, what we consider to be responsible cities, and how we think about access to shade in daylight." The 3.14-acre Biosphere 2 laboratory includes "active research systems" such as ocean and desert environments and a rainforest ecosystem (pictured).Another major factor to consider is the growing body of research supporting the benefits of access to nature on physical and mental health. "In Eastern megacities, an indoor/outdoor environment is an easier way to access ‘natural’ space," says space architect Vittorio Netti, who works as a professor at University of Houston and also as an aerospace engineer at Axiom Space, referring to how for someone living in a cramped megacity, indoor "beaches" with real sand or enclosed "forests" with actual flora can provide easier access to elements of the natural world.Netti, who has spent significant time testing out simulated spaces for his work, believes that future luxury and quality of life will be defined by access to natural spaces. He stresses there are two overlooked areas in considering the design of enclosed "nature" simulations for humans: circadian rhythm and smell. To be truly convincing, faux natural environments should incorporate changes in light and darkness over a roughly 24-hour cycle. And they shouldn’t be sterile.The original Biosphere 2 experiment failed colossally when carbon dioxide levels in the self-contained bubble rose 10 times the normal atmospheric amount, making the enclosed ecosystem uninhabitable. In 2021, a Scientific American article that referred to the live-in terrarium as "effectively like a time machine that can preview a climate-altered Earth" detailed how, after a few decades and some significant retooling, the facility is finally living up to its potential as a site for important climate research. But the focus of its experiments are now centered on narrower questions about our real planet, rather than a man-made re-creation. According to astrobiologist Jacob Haqq Misra, who studies planet habitability and authored the book Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values Through Space Settlement, a dystopian vision of a future reliant on sealed ecosystems for "outdoor" recreation is more something of the public imagination than a prediction from actual experts. "The good news is, it would take a lot to make planet Earth uninhabitable," says Misra. Source link

[romaleen]

The premise of the critically panned 1996 film Bio-Dome is closer to our reality than I’d like to admit. In it, the planet has become so polluted it’s rapidly becoming unsuitable for human life. (Sound familiar?) With the backing of a powerful investor, a group of environmental scientists seal themselves in an enormous enclosed terrarium for a year as part of a climate experiment. In true ’90s slacker comedy fashion, the two stoner protagonists accidentally get themselves locked inside the Bio-Dome, and, of course, wreak havoc. Though the film’s plot is fictional, its premise is loosely based on the real-life Biosphere 2, a $150-million hermetically sealed environmental system in Oracle, Arizona, with wilderness biomes including a rainforest, desert, grassy savannah, mangrove wetlands, and a 25-foot-deep ocean with a coral reef, in which eight researchers actually lived between 1991 and 1993. The experiment famously ended in disaster when rising carbon dioxide levels and crop failure threatened the participants’ lives. While geodesic domes with controlled environments designed to replicate Earth’s ecosystems seemed eccentric in the early 1990s, when climate change was just starting to enter the mainstream discourse, in the decades since, multimillion- or billion-dollar developments that bring the natural world—or simulations of it—inside have become increasingly common. In some cases, like with "the world’s largest indoor desert" in Omaha, Nebraska, or Montreal’s Biosphère (housed in the Expo 67 geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller), these attractions are centered around education and research. Then, there’s a slightly different iteration developed purely for recreation. As global temperatures rise and "unprecedented weather events" occur with increasing regularity, there might be a future where more of our outdoor recreation will be relegated to indoor simulations. In some ways, these built environments are case studies for how successfully (or unsuccessfully) natural environments can be replicated to facilitate the human pastimes—like surfing or skiing, even hiking—that rely on them. The indoor "beach" at the New Century Global Center in Chengdu—one of China’s most polluted cities—is illuminated by an artificial sun.Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group’s Seagaia Ocean Dome was an early example of the over-the-top-faux-natural-environment-as-amusement-park phenomenon. Opened in 1993, the $1.8 billion facility, which was situated less than .2 miles from an actual beach in the coastal city of Miyazaki, Japan, was a Polynesia-themed marvel with a 129,166-square-foot man-made beach with sand from crushed marble and a wave machine capable of 200 surfable variations (in unsalted, chlorinated water). It closed in 2007, faltering under steep ticket prices and operational costs, but that wasn’t the end of the road for artificial beaches. There’s one at the colossal New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China, with space for more than 6,000 beachgoers to lounge under its fake sun. At Berlin’s Tropical Islands, which is housed in a 1938 airfield hangar, a massive screen with a photo of a blue sky hovers above a "sea" made up by three Olympic-size swimming pools. The indoor air temperature is kept in the high seventies. On the other end of the weather spectrum, there are indoor ski resorts like Ski Dubai, a 242,000-square-foot "snow park" in the Mall of the Emirates, where 30 to 40 tons of new snow are produced nightly to blanket five imitation ski slopes, or Big Snow American Dream, North America’s only indoor ski resort, in New Jersey. Ironically, the environmental impact of many of these climate-controlled facilities is significant; a 2013 report, for example, estimated that Ski Dubai’s annual greenhouse gas emissions equate to 900 annual round-trip flights from Dubai to Munich. Massive developments like Ski Dubai or Paradise Island Water Park that simulate natural environments in contained spaces pump tons of carbon into the atmosphere, only exacerbating the factors that increasingly threaten those places and make their conditions more hostile. Ski Dubai’s artificial snow is produced similarly to how faux snow is made at outdoor ski resorts.Christiana Moss of Studio Ma, an award-winning architecture and environmental design studio in Phoenix, Arizona, has some ideas about the way we should be approaching buildings that bring the outdoors indoors. As temperatures increase, especially in places like Phoenix, Moss believes more structures need to be suited to not only controlling contrasting indoor climates, but tempering them with the heat outside. "Increasingly, the realm of what you would consider indoors and what we consider outdoors needs to be expanded and blended to temper exterior temperatures," she says. "It’s about the layers of interior and exterior space.... It’s a huge opportunity for really rethinking and redesigning what we consider to be indoors and outdoors, what we consider to be responsible cities, and how we think about access to shade in daylight." The 3.14-acre Biosphere 2 laboratory includes "active research systems" such as ocean and desert environments and a rainforest ecosystem (pictured).Another major factor to consider is the growing body of research supporting the benefits of access to nature on physical and mental health. "In Eastern megacities, an indoor/outdoor environment is an easier way to access ‘natural’ space," says space architect Vittorio Netti, who works as a professor at University of Houston and also as an aerospace engineer at Axiom Space, referring to how for someone living in a cramped megacity, indoor "beaches" with real sand or enclosed "forests" with actual flora can provide easier access to elements of the natural world.Netti, who has spent significant time testing out simulated spaces for his work, believes that future luxury and quality of life will be defined by access to natural spaces. He stresses there are two overlooked areas in considering the design of enclosed "nature" simulations for humans: circadian rhythm and smell. To be truly convincing, faux natural environments should incorporate changes in light and darkness over a roughly 24-hour cycle. And they shouldn’t be sterile.The original Biosphere 2 experiment failed colossally when carbon dioxide levels in the self-contained bubble rose 10 times the normal atmospheric amount, making the enclosed ecosystem uninhabitable. In 2021, a Scientific American article that referred to the live-in terrarium as "effectively like a time machine that can preview a climate-altered Earth" detailed how, after a few decades and some significant retooling, the facility is finally living up to its potential as a site for important climate research. But the focus of its experiments are now centered on narrower questions about our real planet, rather than a man-made re-creation. According to astrobiologist Jacob Haqq Misra, who studies planet habitability and authored the book Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values Through Space Settlement, a dystopian vision of a future reliant on sealed ecosystems for "outdoor" recreation is more something of the public imagination than a prediction from actual experts. "The good news is, it would take a lot to make planet Earth uninhabitable," says Misra. Source link

[monaleen101]

The premise of the critically panned 1996 film Bio-Dome is closer to our reality than I’d like to admit. In it, the planet has become so polluted it’s rapidly becoming unsuitable for human life. (Sound familiar?) With the backing of a powerful investor, a group of environmental scientists seal themselves in an enormous enclosed terrarium for a year as part of a climate experiment. In true ’90s slacker comedy fashion, the two stoner protagonists accidentally get themselves locked inside the Bio-Dome, and, of course, wreak havoc. Though the film’s plot is fictional, its premise is loosely based on the real-life Biosphere 2, a $150-million hermetically sealed environmental system in Oracle, Arizona, with wilderness biomes including a rainforest, desert, grassy savannah, mangrove wetlands, and a 25-foot-deep ocean with a coral reef, in which eight researchers actually lived between 1991 and 1993. The experiment famously ended in disaster when rising carbon dioxide levels and crop failure threatened the participants’ lives. While geodesic domes with controlled environments designed to replicate Earth’s ecosystems seemed eccentric in the early 1990s, when climate change was just starting to enter the mainstream discourse, in the decades since, multimillion- or billion-dollar developments that bring the natural world—or simulations of it—inside have become increasingly common. In some cases, like with "the world’s largest indoor desert" in Omaha, Nebraska, or Montreal’s Biosphère (housed in the Expo 67 geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller), these attractions are centered around education and research. Then, there’s a slightly different iteration developed purely for recreation. As global temperatures rise and "unprecedented weather events" occur with increasing regularity, there might be a future where more of our outdoor recreation will be relegated to indoor simulations. In some ways, these built environments are case studies for how successfully (or unsuccessfully) natural environments can be replicated to facilitate the human pastimes—like surfing or skiing, even hiking—that rely on them. The indoor "beach" at the New Century Global Center in Chengdu—one of China’s most polluted cities—is illuminated by an artificial sun.Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group’s Seagaia Ocean Dome was an early example of the over-the-top-faux-natural-environment-as-amusement-park phenomenon. Opened in 1993, the $1.8 billion facility, which was situated less than .2 miles from an actual beach in the coastal city of Miyazaki, Japan, was a Polynesia-themed marvel with a 129,166-square-foot man-made beach with sand from crushed marble and a wave machine capable of 200 surfable variations (in unsalted, chlorinated water). It closed in 2007, faltering under steep ticket prices and operational costs, but that wasn’t the end of the road for artificial beaches. There’s one at the colossal New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China, with space for more than 6,000 beachgoers to lounge under its fake sun. At Berlin’s Tropical Islands, which is housed in a 1938 airfield hangar, a massive screen with a photo of a blue sky hovers above a "sea" made up by three Olympic-size swimming pools. The indoor air temperature is kept in the high seventies. On the other end of the weather spectrum, there are indoor ski resorts like Ski Dubai, a 242,000-square-foot "snow park" in the Mall of the Emirates, where 30 to 40 tons of new snow are produced nightly to blanket five imitation ski slopes, or Big Snow American Dream, North America’s only indoor ski resort, in New Jersey. Ironically, the environmental impact of many of these climate-controlled facilities is significant; a 2013 report, for example, estimated that Ski Dubai’s annual greenhouse gas emissions equate to 900 annual round-trip flights from Dubai to Munich. Massive developments like Ski Dubai or Paradise Island Water Park that simulate natural environments in contained spaces pump tons of carbon into the atmosphere, only exacerbating the factors that increasingly threaten those places and make their conditions more hostile. Ski Dubai’s artificial snow is produced similarly to how faux snow is made at outdoor ski resorts.Christiana Moss of Studio Ma, an award-winning architecture and environmental design studio in Phoenix, Arizona, has some ideas about the way we should be approaching buildings that bring the outdoors indoors. As temperatures increase, especially in places like Phoenix, Moss believes more structures need to be suited to not only controlling contrasting indoor climates, but tempering them with the heat outside. "Increasingly, the realm of what you would consider indoors and what we consider outdoors needs to be expanded and blended to temper exterior temperatures," she says. "It’s about the layers of interior and exterior space.... It’s a huge opportunity for really rethinking and redesigning what we consider to be indoors and outdoors, what we consider to be responsible cities, and how we think about access to shade in daylight." The 3.14-acre Biosphere 2 laboratory includes "active research systems" such as ocean and desert environments and a rainforest ecosystem (pictured).Another major factor to consider is the growing body of research supporting the benefits of access to nature on physical and mental health. "In Eastern megacities, an indoor/outdoor environment is an easier way to access ‘natural’ space," says space architect Vittorio Netti, who works as a professor at University of Houston and also as an aerospace engineer at Axiom Space, referring to how for someone living in a cramped megacity, indoor "beaches" with real sand or enclosed "forests" with actual flora can provide easier access to elements of the natural world.Netti, who has spent significant time testing out simulated spaces for his work, believes that future luxury and quality of life will be defined by access to natural spaces. He stresses there are two overlooked areas in considering the design of enclosed "nature" simulations for humans: circadian rhythm and smell. To be truly convincing, faux natural environments should incorporate changes in light and darkness over a roughly 24-hour cycle. And they shouldn’t be sterile.The original Biosphere 2 experiment failed colossally when carbon dioxide levels in the self-contained bubble rose 10 times the normal atmospheric amount, making the enclosed ecosystem uninhabitable. In 2021, a Scientific American article that referred to the live-in terrarium as "effectively like a time machine that can preview a climate-altered Earth" detailed how, after a few decades and some significant retooling, the facility is finally living up to its potential as a site for important climate research. But the focus of its experiments are now centered on narrower questions about our real planet, rather than a man-made re-creation. According to astrobiologist Jacob Haqq Misra, who studies planet habitability and authored the book Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values Through Space Settlement, a dystopian vision of a future reliant on sealed ecosystems for "outdoor" recreation is more something of the public imagination than a prediction from actual experts. "The good news is, it would take a lot to make planet Earth uninhabitable," says Misra. Source link

[iamownerofme]

The premise of the critically panned 1996 film Bio-Dome is closer to our reality than I’d like to admit. In it, the planet has become so polluted it’s rapidly becoming unsuitable for human life. (Sound familiar?) With the backing of a powerful investor, a group of environmental scientists seal themselves in an enormous enclosed terrarium for a year as part of a climate experiment. In true ’90s slacker comedy fashion, the two stoner protagonists accidentally get themselves locked inside the Bio-Dome, and, of course, wreak havoc. Though the film’s plot is fictional, its premise is loosely based on the real-life Biosphere 2, a $150-million hermetically sealed environmental system in Oracle, Arizona, with wilderness biomes including a rainforest, desert, grassy savannah, mangrove wetlands, and a 25-foot-deep ocean with a coral reef, in which eight researchers actually lived between 1991 and 1993. The experiment famously ended in disaster when rising carbon dioxide levels and crop failure threatened the participants’ lives. While geodesic domes with controlled environments designed to replicate Earth’s ecosystems seemed eccentric in the early 1990s, when climate change was just starting to enter the mainstream discourse, in the decades since, multimillion- or billion-dollar developments that bring the natural world—or simulations of it—inside have become increasingly common. In some cases, like with "the world’s largest indoor desert" in Omaha, Nebraska, or Montreal’s Biosphère (housed in the Expo 67 geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller), these attractions are centered around education and research. Then, there’s a slightly different iteration developed purely for recreation. As global temperatures rise and "unprecedented weather events" occur with increasing regularity, there might be a future where more of our outdoor recreation will be relegated to indoor simulations. In some ways, these built environments are case studies for how successfully (or unsuccessfully) natural environments can be replicated to facilitate the human pastimes—like surfing or skiing, even hiking—that rely on them. The indoor "beach" at the New Century Global Center in Chengdu—one of China’s most polluted cities—is illuminated by an artificial sun.Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group’s Seagaia Ocean Dome was an early example of the over-the-top-faux-natural-environment-as-amusement-park phenomenon. Opened in 1993, the $1.8 billion facility, which was situated less than .2 miles from an actual beach in the coastal city of Miyazaki, Japan, was a Polynesia-themed marvel with a 129,166-square-foot man-made beach with sand from crushed marble and a wave machine capable of 200 surfable variations (in unsalted, chlorinated water). It closed in 2007, faltering under steep ticket prices and operational costs, but that wasn’t the end of the road for artificial beaches. There’s one at the colossal New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China, with space for more than 6,000 beachgoers to lounge under its fake sun. At Berlin’s Tropical Islands, which is housed in a 1938 airfield hangar, a massive screen with a photo of a blue sky hovers above a "sea" made up by three Olympic-size swimming pools. The indoor air temperature is kept in the high seventies. On the other end of the weather spectrum, there are indoor ski resorts like Ski Dubai, a 242,000-square-foot "snow park" in the Mall of the Emirates, where 30 to 40 tons of new snow are produced nightly to blanket five imitation ski slopes, or Big Snow American Dream, North America’s only indoor ski resort, in New Jersey. Ironically, the environmental impact of many of these climate-controlled facilities is significant; a 2013 report, for example, estimated that Ski Dubai’s annual greenhouse gas emissions equate to 900 annual round-trip flights from Dubai to Munich. Massive developments like Ski Dubai or Paradise Island Water Park that simulate natural environments in contained spaces pump tons of carbon into the atmosphere, only exacerbating the factors that increasingly threaten those places and make their conditions more hostile. Ski Dubai’s artificial snow is produced similarly to how faux snow is made at outdoor ski resorts.Christiana Moss of Studio Ma, an award-winning architecture and environmental design studio in Phoenix, Arizona, has some ideas about the way we should be approaching buildings that bring the outdoors indoors. As temperatures increase, especially in places like Phoenix, Moss believes more structures need to be suited to not only controlling contrasting indoor climates, but tempering them with the heat outside. "Increasingly, the realm of what you would consider indoors and what we consider outdoors needs to be expanded and blended to temper exterior temperatures," she says. "It’s about the layers of interior and exterior space.... It’s a huge opportunity for really rethinking and redesigning what we consider to be indoors and outdoors, what we consider to be responsible cities, and how we think about access to shade in daylight." The 3.14-acre Biosphere 2 laboratory includes "active research systems" such as ocean and desert environments and a rainforest ecosystem (pictured).Another major factor to consider is the growing body of research supporting the benefits of access to nature on physical and mental health. "In Eastern megacities, an indoor/outdoor environment is an easier way to access ‘natural’ space," says space architect Vittorio Netti, who works as a professor at University of Houston and also as an aerospace engineer at Axiom Space, referring to how for someone living in a cramped megacity, indoor "beaches" with real sand or enclosed "forests" with actual flora can provide easier access to elements of the natural world.Netti, who has spent significant time testing out simulated spaces for his work, believes that future luxury and quality of life will be defined by access to natural spaces. He stresses there are two overlooked areas in considering the design of enclosed "nature" simulations for humans: circadian rhythm and smell. To be truly convincing, faux natural environments should incorporate changes in light and darkness over a roughly 24-hour cycle. And they shouldn’t be sterile.The original Biosphere 2 experiment failed colossally when carbon dioxide levels in the self-contained bubble rose 10 times the normal atmospheric amount, making the enclosed ecosystem uninhabitable. In 2021, a Scientific American article that referred to the live-in terrarium as "effectively like a time machine that can preview a climate-altered Earth" detailed how, after a few decades and some significant retooling, the facility is finally living up to its potential as a site for important climate research. But the focus of its experiments are now centered on narrower questions about our real planet, rather than a man-made re-creation. According to astrobiologist Jacob Haqq Misra, who studies planet habitability and authored the book Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values Through Space Settlement, a dystopian vision of a future reliant on sealed ecosystems for "outdoor" recreation is more something of the public imagination than a prediction from actual experts. "The good news is, it would take a lot to make planet Earth uninhabitable," says Misra. Source link

[shelyold]

The premise of the critically panned 1996 film Bio-Dome is closer to our reality than I’d like to admit. In it, the planet has become so polluted it’s rapidly becoming unsuitable for human life. (Sound familiar?) With the backing of a powerful investor, a group of environmental scientists seal themselves in an enormous enclosed terrarium for a year as part of a climate experiment. In true ’90s slacker comedy fashion, the two stoner protagonists accidentally get themselves locked inside the Bio-Dome, and, of course, wreak havoc. Though the film’s plot is fictional, its premise is loosely based on the real-life Biosphere 2, a $150-million hermetically sealed environmental system in Oracle, Arizona, with wilderness biomes including a rainforest, desert, grassy savannah, mangrove wetlands, and a 25-foot-deep ocean with a coral reef, in which eight researchers actually lived between 1991 and 1993. The experiment famously ended in disaster when rising carbon dioxide levels and crop failure threatened the participants’ lives. While geodesic domes with controlled environments designed to replicate Earth’s ecosystems seemed eccentric in the early 1990s, when climate change was just starting to enter the mainstream discourse, in the decades since, multimillion- or billion-dollar developments that bring the natural world—or simulations of it—inside have become increasingly common. In some cases, like with "the world’s largest indoor desert" in Omaha, Nebraska, or Montreal’s Biosphère (housed in the Expo 67 geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller), these attractions are centered around education and research. Then, there’s a slightly different iteration developed purely for recreation. As global temperatures rise and "unprecedented weather events" occur with increasing regularity, there might be a future where more of our outdoor recreation will be relegated to indoor simulations. In some ways, these built environments are case studies for how successfully (or unsuccessfully) natural environments can be replicated to facilitate the human pastimes—like surfing or skiing, even hiking—that rely on them. The indoor "beach" at the New Century Global Center in Chengdu—one of China’s most polluted cities—is illuminated by an artificial sun.Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group’s Seagaia Ocean Dome was an early example of the over-the-top-faux-natural-environment-as-amusement-park phenomenon. Opened in 1993, the $1.8 billion facility, which was situated less than .2 miles from an actual beach in the coastal city of Miyazaki, Japan, was a Polynesia-themed marvel with a 129,166-square-foot man-made beach with sand from crushed marble and a wave machine capable of 200 surfable variations (in unsalted, chlorinated water). It closed in 2007, faltering under steep ticket prices and operational costs, but that wasn’t the end of the road for artificial beaches. There’s one at the colossal New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China, with space for more than 6,000 beachgoers to lounge under its fake sun. At Berlin’s Tropical Islands, which is housed in a 1938 airfield hangar, a massive screen with a photo of a blue sky hovers above a "sea" made up by three Olympic-size swimming pools. The indoor air temperature is kept in the high seventies. On the other end of the weather spectrum, there are indoor ski resorts like Ski Dubai, a 242,000-square-foot "snow park" in the Mall of the Emirates, where 30 to 40 tons of new snow are produced nightly to blanket five imitation ski slopes, or Big Snow American Dream, North America’s only indoor ski resort, in New Jersey. Ironically, the environmental impact of many of these climate-controlled facilities is significant; a 2013 report, for example, estimated that Ski Dubai’s annual greenhouse gas emissions equate to 900 annual round-trip flights from Dubai to Munich. Massive developments like Ski Dubai or Paradise Island Water Park that simulate natural environments in contained spaces pump tons of carbon into the atmosphere, only exacerbating the factors that increasingly threaten those places and make their conditions more hostile. Ski Dubai’s artificial snow is produced similarly to how faux snow is made at outdoor ski resorts.Christiana Moss of Studio Ma, an award-winning architecture and environmental design studio in Phoenix, Arizona, has some ideas about the way we should be approaching buildings that bring the outdoors indoors. As temperatures increase, especially in places like Phoenix, Moss believes more structures need to be suited to not only controlling contrasting indoor climates, but tempering them with the heat outside. "Increasingly, the realm of what you would consider indoors and what we consider outdoors needs to be expanded and blended to temper exterior temperatures," she says. "It’s about the layers of interior and exterior space.... It’s a huge opportunity for really rethinking and redesigning what we consider to be indoors and outdoors, what we consider to be responsible cities, and how we think about access to shade in daylight." The 3.14-acre Biosphere 2 laboratory includes "active research systems" such as ocean and desert environments and a rainforest ecosystem (pictured).Another major factor to consider is the growing body of research supporting the benefits of access to nature on physical and mental health. "In Eastern megacities, an indoor/outdoor environment is an easier way to access ‘natural’ space," says space architect Vittorio Netti, who works as a professor at University of Houston and also as an aerospace engineer at Axiom Space, referring to how for someone living in a cramped megacity, indoor "beaches" with real sand or enclosed "forests" with actual flora can provide easier access to elements of the natural world.Netti, who has spent significant time testing out simulated spaces for his work, believes that future luxury and quality of life will be defined by access to natural spaces. He stresses there are two overlooked areas in considering the design of enclosed "nature" simulations for humans: circadian rhythm and smell. To be truly convincing, faux natural environments should incorporate changes in light and darkness over a roughly 24-hour cycle. And they shouldn’t be sterile.The original Biosphere 2 experiment failed colossally when carbon dioxide levels in the self-contained bubble rose 10 times the normal atmospheric amount, making the enclosed ecosystem uninhabitable. In 2021, a Scientific American article that referred to the live-in terrarium as "effectively like a time machine that can preview a climate-altered Earth" detailed how, after a few decades and some significant retooling, the facility is finally living up to its potential as a site for important climate research. But the focus of its experiments are now centered on narrower questions about our real planet, rather than a man-made re-creation. According to astrobiologist Jacob Haqq Misra, who studies planet habitability and authored the book Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values Through Space Settlement, a dystopian vision of a future reliant on sealed ecosystems for "outdoor" recreation is more something of the public imagination than a prediction from actual experts. "The good news is, it would take a lot to make planet Earth uninhabitable," says Misra. Source link