2020/07/08

New “Spaceship Earth” Documentary Captures Historic (But Failed) Human Experiment

● 08/07/2020
“This is the story of the eccentric but charismatic commune leader John P Allen [and] the rebellious young billionaire Ed Bass, who offered to put some of his family oil money at Allen’s disposal to realise one of his most cherished visions: building a gigantic biodome-style enclosed ecosystem.”
– Film critic Peter Bradshaw, summarizing Spaceship Earth, Matt Wolf’s documentary on the (failed) 1991 experiment that quarantined eight individuals inside Biosphere 2, a replica of Earth’s ecosystem
The Guardian
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