In the summer of 1992, mom and dad decided the time was ripe for a Southwestern road trip, complete with VW Vanagon. So, we went to the Biosphere to check out the planet in a bottle. Little did we know of all the drama unfolding behind those glass walls...
Years later, after moving to Tucson for grad school, I took an interior tour of the now-defunct eden. Our surly tour guide carried an old hand held projection system with attached microphone used to tell us about the rainforest, the beach, the savannah, the failure of the biosphere due to an oversite in design (wind!). Realizing later that he was in fact one of the original bionauts, I wished I had been able to delve more into the biosphere's backstory. I heard it was a lover scorned scenario (a sealed door flung open in spite, the resulting crumble of the hermetic earth dome). Anyway, he left before we could question him.
Here is Cabinet's reportage on the Biosphere's demise.
