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- From: revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Biosphere II News
- Message-ID: <X5LmwB4w164w@cellar.org>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 02:58:56 GMT
- Sender: bbs@cellar.org (The Cellar BBS)
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- Lord knows how reliable this is, but both Buzzworm and the Whole
- Earth Review are running articles about Biosphere this month. Whole Earth's
- article by Kevin Kelley-- who is an advisor of some sort to the project, so
- caveats up, gang-- reports that, while the Biospherians have managed to live
- for a year inside the structure, it hasn't been easy. The article describes
- the day-to-day actviities in the structure, with a lot of little
- human-interest things like the ways they amuse themselves. Kelley reports
- that the Biospherians seem to be in good health, overall, with lower levels
- of body fat and cholesterol. One interesting thing he reports is that, while
- nearly everyone had caught a cold when they first went in, nobody's gotten
- a cold since then. Given Whole Earth's tendency to puff the place up, I'm
- taking the article skeptically-- but if Kelley's account of how closely
- monitored the Biosphereans' medical signs are monitored, maybe there might
- be some innaresting insights coming out of the project. (Whether it's worth
- $150 million, and whether the crowd around John Allen is the rightgroup to
- do it, is another question entirely.)
- I should mention that Kelley's article does not address the
- revelations of the Village Voice articles by Marc Cooper.
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- The _Buzzworm_ article looks to be less boosterish, and I guess I'll
- have to buy a copy-- I only browsed it in the bookstore. It does address the
- _Voice_ series, but I'm afraid I don't remember it clearly enough.
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- Brian "Rev. P-K" Siano revpk@cellar.org
- Servo: "Dianetics, by L. Ron Hubbard."
- Joel: "Why is my life messed up? Page 74."
- Servo: "When will this movie end? Page 155."
- Crow: "How much money can we get out of Tom Cruise? Page 85."
- "Mystery Science Theater 3000,"
- during a volcano scene in
- "Hercules and the Moon Men."
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