From: Eric Watt Forste (arkuat@idiom.com)
Date: Thu Nov 11 1999 - 17:53:18 MST
I think Lee Daniel Crocker is quite right in pointing out that we have few
clues how to maintain a biosphere capable of supporting a human society
indefinitely offplanet. More fullscale biosphere closure experiments are
needed, and *much* more information is needed about species (bacterial and
otherwise) symbiotic with human beings, and our ability to get along without
them in the Long Run. Symbiosis includes not only endosymbiosis, but for
example the "air-scrubbing" soil bacteria that were used in Biosphere 2.
-- arkuat
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