Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

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  • čas přidán 15. 06. 2009
  • www.ted.com Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments. This is the first TED talk drawn from an independently organized TEDx event, held at the University of Southern California.
    TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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Komentáře • 291

  • @rohanr6708
    @rohanr6708 Před 3 lety +119

    Yes theory brought me here

  • @chrisday1526
    @chrisday1526 Před 4 lety +28

    This woman is incredibly passionate about this. Very interesting talk, enjoyed it, thank you.

  • @CAIsMyCrack
    @CAIsMyCrack Před 13 lety +206

    4 months to make a pizza... what if she burnt it lol.

    • @ninjasocks6823
      @ninjasocks6823 Před 4 lety +5

      some guy tried to make a pencil from scratch, took him 2 years

    • @montanamike7948
      @montanamike7948 Před 3 lety +4

      She would make another because by then she has enough produce and ingredients to make them from then in granted she has sustainable sources. Duh.

    • @dad4378
      @dad4378 Před 2 lety +2

      Timbo slice are you alive?

  • @MrNiceguy3210
    @MrNiceguy3210 Před 9 lety +263

    Biosphere should be attempted again, except with real scientists and a better design.

    • @MrAlexanderLang
      @MrAlexanderLang Před 7 lety +14

      just real scientist would do.

    • @MrLiquidxIce
      @MrLiquidxIce Před 6 lety +4

      Or survival experts

    • @catsboi6278
      @catsboi6278 Před 5 lety +3

      I don't know if they could do that because it's opens to tours know and also it's cooler than you think when your actually there

    • @millanferende6723
      @millanferende6723 Před 3 lety +2

      @@MrLiquidxIce "Time to drink my own piss."

    • @grantdaly2986
      @grantdaly2986 Před 3 lety

      Space station seems to cope.

  • @moosefactory133
    @moosefactory133 Před 7 lety +3

    I will be visiting Tucson this June and hopefully will have a chance to visit Biosphere 2 if it is opened to the public

  • @ANDYBONE7
    @ANDYBONE7 Před 4 lety +2

    really good video. great information thank you I have learn a lot.

  • @Abquid
    @Abquid Před 14 lety +13

    The Biosphere2 is still out there near Tucson, AZ and well worth visiting...so interesting that I watched this rather scattered presentation and even read the book Jane Poynter wrote about the experience.

  • @bullvinetheband7260
    @bullvinetheband7260 Před 7 lety +19

    Part of the bio dome should have been reserved for evergreen trees they produce oxygen year round. If there pruned like a zen garden the redwood will stay well under 100 feet.

    • @Just.A.T-Rex
      @Just.A.T-Rex Před rokem

      It is. The biggest problem with the trees was that they didn’t account for simulating strong enough winds.

  • @CuriousNekosan
    @CuriousNekosan Před 12 lety +13

    This is a fantastic talk. She has good energy. With regards to the biosphere project I found the role of the soil within the enclosure particularly interesting. Essentially it was the microorganisms consuming organic matter within the soil which caused the CO2 problem. I wonder what would of happened if they put more thought into engineering the soil. I would love to have that job. This is just so interesting. :D

  • @gledalka
    @gledalka Před 15 lety +1

    amazing!

  • @robdieselpower
    @robdieselpower Před 13 lety +5

    @JUKIO01 I´m using it for fictional mars missions in school, it´s very motivating!

  • @Eddie303
    @Eddie303 Před 13 lety +2

    Superb... Thanx uploader

    • @mooncaje
      @mooncaje Před 3 lety +1

      Damn 9 years ago. Thats mad bro how are you know?

  • @paulussantosociwidjaja4781

    This remind me to the way of living at Brockwood Park Educational Community in UK I spent 4 and half years there.

  • @jasonlajoie
    @jasonlajoie Před 15 lety +28

    Boy the end really made me feel guilty about all my flatulence. My poor great, great, great grandchildren are going to have to breath that in.

  • @brandonarita8057
    @brandonarita8057 Před 3 lety

    Excelente video

  • @cliveramsbotty6077
    @cliveramsbotty6077 Před 8 lety +26

    glass blocks UV, condensation forms inside structures, curing concrete and calcium carbonate, humans like shagging. We didn't know any of this before the biosphere did we?

  • @funnyguise
    @funnyguise Před 15 lety +3

    She touches on permaculture with the rake story. I'd love to see Sepp Holzer (via translator, of course) or Bill Mollison or someone speaking on the subject.
    Hey, TEDtalksDirector, do you talk requests?

  • @TheAmazingMrMcFlyy
    @TheAmazingMrMcFlyy Před 5 lety +13

    This lady is “doing the most” for ted

  • @jihadssignatureofficial9436
    @jihadssignatureofficial9436 Před 6 měsíci

    Too much informative
    That's great❤

  • @josiya4187
    @josiya4187 Před 2 lety

    Epic video - stellar ending! :)

  • @popaddict
    @popaddict Před 15 lety +3

    LOL
    I'm always impresses by fellow youtubers and their witty comments!

  • @robdieselpower
    @robdieselpower Před 13 lety

    @worries good point!

  • @Sonic88Reducer
    @Sonic88Reducer Před 15 lety

    Noiiiccee i want more pauly shore

  • @1schwererziehbar1
    @1schwererziehbar1 Před 15 lety +1

    best ted talk in months.

    • @dad4378
      @dad4378 Před 2 lety

      Are you alive 😐

  • @gledalka
    @gledalka Před 15 lety +1

    awesome idea!! :)

  • @robdieselpower
    @robdieselpower Před 13 lety +1

    @BandytaCzasu yes, they do. Try it!

  • @eatingfatty
    @eatingfatty Před 15 lety +2

    now that is awesome!

  • @1derShorts
    @1derShorts Před 15 lety +1

    cool, is there any way i can read ur thesis?

  • @XCoreProduction
    @XCoreProduction Před 11 lety +4

    Best bio lesson by lussi ever

  • @LordTerror56
    @LordTerror56 Před 15 lety +1

    "14:20 this picture is so wrong xD"
    Yea. Another problem with it is that the top half of the picture has WAY more stars than the bottom half.

  • @izzzzzz6
    @izzzzzz6 Před 4 lety

    I just stumbled across this: They were building biosphere mentioned at 25mins in this TW video.
    ​@​

  • @JabroneyDirt
    @JabroneyDirt Před 5 lety +4

    Wow, I never knew biodome was a documentary?

  • @CH--mo9ep
    @CH--mo9ep Před 10 lety

    Wow !

  • @GrayGuard
    @GrayGuard Před 13 lety

    Been there.

  • @mahabaida3077
    @mahabaida3077 Před 9 lety +26

    basically the hunger games

  • @Chemicalogic
    @Chemicalogic Před 15 lety +2

    Ya, I understand that they do groundbreaking research that's applicable to colonizing other planets, but I was ranting about how we've been--and still are--ultra careless with biosphere one.

  • @conoba
    @conoba Před 15 lety +3

    Rain is 99% dinosaur piss that has been distilled serveral million times.

  • @ratholin
    @ratholin Před 15 lety +1

    wow second ted talk this week that used biophilic I just wish she hadn't given Prometheus credit for Tesla. This lady is nuts and brilliant at the same time. Good talk

  • @sillyhead34
    @sillyhead34 Před 15 lety +5

    wow. im jealous of this lady. she got to experience a completely pure way of life. she, for a while, understood everything about her life. one of the biggest stressors in my life is that i know that i would have no idea how to take care of myself if i did not have the option to depend on numerous industries and companies. and that, because i depend on the things i get from the store, i have no control over my life.

  • @robdieselpower
    @robdieselpower Před 13 lety +1

    @xXAkridXx its very educational, I used in class. Perfect. If only she´d be less overexcited ;)

  • @marshallbishop2506
    @marshallbishop2506 Před 6 lety +23

    Ahhh the mighty oxygen scrubber known as concrete.

  • @chawk111
    @chawk111 Před 15 lety +3

    Where do they keep the anti-Pauly Shore module?.

  • @E1GHTY8
    @E1GHTY8 Před 15 lety

    excellent observation

  • @zeytelaloi
    @zeytelaloi Před 15 lety +1

    omfg i was really surprised when i heard she spent time in Eritrea. n i think ive seen those farms seen

  • @robdieselpower
    @robdieselpower Před 13 lety

    @BarneyFlart look for JUKIO01´s comment. It´s because of mars missions.

  • @Mastikator
    @Mastikator Před 15 lety

    Cool

  • @thinhpham4713
    @thinhpham4713 Před 4 lety +1

    Interesting how she felt when she was at a supermarket.

  • @IdrisBusari
    @IdrisBusari Před 10 lety +10

    Transform deserts to #Eden . #ThrowAwaytheRake , let dead leaves build up the topsoil and build an #oasis !

  • @CurtBombS
    @CurtBombS Před rokem

    I can't find any information about Jane's education/Biography before Biosphere 2 when she was 29. Am I to just assume she was just a rich British kid?

  • @Todd82TA
    @Todd82TA Před 13 lety +15

    I wonder if she has to water her backyard to get it to look like that, or if she used native plants that pretty much are self-sustaining?

    • @benhelius4204
      @benhelius4204 Před rokem +1

      As she said, it's only for 6-8 weeks in spring, I assume, she doesn't water it
      (aside from that well maybe?)

  • @Thetrutv
    @Thetrutv Před 13 lety +4

    She knows too much about what she is talking about, what an intelligent woman.

  • @cal8414
    @cal8414 Před 9 lety +18

    Why did the biosphere projects stop after one failed attempt ?

    • @271gadget
      @271gadget Před 9 lety +17

      ***** Wasn't really sustainable, Jane did not mention everything which happened. At one point she cut the tip of her finger of so went out of the biosphere for medical attention... Also the 8 members were not scientists so they did not entirely understand it all. At another point the scientists outside began pumping oxygen in and carbon dioxide out. Hence, this all defeats the idea of sustainable.

    • @mikaelazed
      @mikaelazed Před 6 lety +1

      Also the second time they ran out of finance and there was a dispute over money issues

    • @whitepeoplergullible9241
      @whitepeoplergullible9241 Před 4 lety

      It's there you can visit it.

    • @kuraddohikari
      @kuraddohikari Před 4 lety +1

      @@whitepeoplergullible9241 you can, they use it for other earth science projects now. I guess it was decided it's better put to use for other purposes rather than just continuing to put new people in it and experiment with a closed system again. But if we need it for that purpose again they could do it, the buildings are being maintained and they could go ahead and shut the doors again. Maybe one day we'll be looking to setting up a colony on the Moon and they'll do this experiment in the Biosphere with more scientific planning.

    • @annebruecks7381
      @annebruecks7381 Před 2 lety

      @@kuraddohikari It was donated to the University of Arizona eventually, after the second attempt was stopped by the IRS/government.

  • @MitzvosGolem1
    @MitzvosGolem1 Před 2 lety

    The 1972 film "silent running " may have inspired this ...

  • @sausage4mash
    @sausage4mash Před 15 lety +41

    you have inspired me too poop more , thank you

  • @26bellezalatina
    @26bellezalatina Před 9 lety +9

    Who is watching in 2015?

    • @eurydicewaltz5063
      @eurydicewaltz5063 Před 9 lety +2

      Yaritza Garcia Me. You can see her chopped of finger, and that's the whole reason why she ruined everything. But she covers that up.

    • @danielho9544
      @danielho9544 Před 9 lety +1

      They also pump oxygen from biosphere 1 in to biosphere 2. Because during the night the plants in the biosphere 2 steals their oxygen and they just can't breathe. The whole this is a major fail. LoL and ya I am watching it at 2015. HI

    • @andreaquinn1645
      @andreaquinn1645 Před 9 lety

      daniel ho Biosphere has generated about 125 scientific studies, including regarding climate change impacts on acidification of the ocean and the repercussions therefrom. It seems like a primer on climate change might be of use to you. ncse.com/climate/climate-change-101

    • @SheriffMuttonchops
      @SheriffMuttonchops Před 6 lety

      No one is.

    • @johannesfranck1770
      @johannesfranck1770 Před 5 lety

      2020

  • @ajickdesign1998
    @ajickdesign1998 Před 3 lety +1

    Yes Theory?

  • @etwasnichts9398
    @etwasnichts9398 Před 3 lety +1

    In fact she was the one that failed the project with taking stuff back to the biosphere 2 after a injury of her hand

  • @JenGM24
    @JenGM24 Před 5 lety

    👏👏👏

  • @michaelvoskanyan220
    @michaelvoskanyan220 Před 12 lety +1

    I watched this because in my science class we are designing a "biosphere" so, yeah.....

  • @davidbrauner2822
    @davidbrauner2822 Před 7 lety

    So exelent pointes for vegetable oxigen teraforming Mars?

  • @ledzzappa
    @ledzzappa Před 8 lety +5

    this bird is flippin loopy, i read her book on biosphere 2.

  • @JennerPomo
    @JennerPomo Před 15 lety +2

    I am looking for a team and Investers to rebuild BioSphere 2 in a Matter Trap and build a satallight
    and put it in to space by the matter trap beam.
    The Satalight then beams up the BioSphere 2 and puts it in to space the BioSphere 2 picks up the Satalight and the Moves to the Moon and Mars.
    Then at the Moon or Mars BioSphere 2 puts out the Satalight and beams on to the suerfus
    of the Moon or Mars.
    Charles Gitchell Jr.
    Jenner Pomo Research/Earth/Space/

  • @adityasinghrajput5148
    @adityasinghrajput5148 Před 2 lety

    theinfographics show bought me here

  • @Cypherson
    @Cypherson Před 15 lety

    If that's the most you take from this, that is sad indeed.

  • @JustHuntr
    @JustHuntr Před rokem +1

    she is spot on.. the small things do count.. dont stand there and allow the water to run out the faucet while brushing your teeth for example. BE conservative

  • @Sgt-Gravy
    @Sgt-Gravy Před 6 lety +1

    This project should get the first Artificial Intelligence super computer... Right?

  • @saraessex8124
    @saraessex8124 Před 5 lety

    Stubby, and squirrely...springboard into the future!

  • @JennerPomo
    @JennerPomo Před 15 lety +1

    Needed gravity mite come from SEG's Iron core Magnet's spinning.
    Charles Gitchell Jr.
    Jenner Pomo Research/Earth/Space/

  • @vincelamb4063
    @vincelamb4063 Před 3 lety

    "Spaceship Earth" brought me here.

  • @niniomigrania
    @niniomigrania Před 15 lety

    But its better to fail here on earth all we can before going into other planets, this still a success in my opinion.

  • @Mister__Jey
    @Mister__Jey Před 2 lety

    The goal is kind of weird, so why didn't they have tundra, why didn't they have an ice landscape? I mean, these are also areas on earth that take up a lot of space.

    • @2pua3
      @2pua3 Před 2 lety

      Part of it was finding biomes that would compliment and help each other. For example, the Desert was a fog desert, so it was more "wet" than a normal desert. The tundra wouldn't have contributed much and would have been difficult to maintain, esp because everything was interconnected. The biomes weren't separated.
      I also imagine logistically, it would have been a nightmare. The Sonoran Desert is *hot* and the cooling was a closed system. How would you keep it cold enough sustainably enough?

  • @joshuatoro8977
    @joshuatoro8977 Před 6 lety +1

    Where is the Cow?

  • @BandytaCzasu
    @BandytaCzasu Před 14 lety +1

    Those small biospheres in jar really do work?

  • @bbjames3430
    @bbjames3430 Před 4 lety

    8L

  • @JeremyGViking
    @JeremyGViking Před 15 lety

    AND A KILLER BUZZ!! lol
    Thats very true though.

  • @mooncaje
    @mooncaje Před 3 lety +3

    School brought me here....

  • @madam.bovary.
    @madam.bovary. Před 8 měsíci

    Funda Hocamdan duyup geldim 🙋‍♀️

  • @vegidio
    @vegidio Před 6 lety +6

    The idea was great and I think it should be attempted again with the lessons learned from the first experiment, but they need to do things right:
    1. Put real scientists there. Most of the team in Biosphere 2, including Jane, had next to zero scientific background.
    2. Don't try to fake the experiment like they did in the original one, using some resources from outside like... oxygen!
    3. The biospherians don't need to me military personal, but they need military training. Jane was the first failure of the experiment when she cut the tip of her finger in the first 2 weeks, forcing her to leave and later return. By the way, when she returned, she brought new resources from outside.
    4. Also, the need to someone (or at least 2 people) with some type of medical training. The fact the Jane had to leave the experiment because she cut the tip of her finger was embarrassing.

  • @bishop51807
    @bishop51807 Před 5 lety

    80% comments are trolls this experiment did show us how little we knew of earth.

  • @mmpoggs2033
    @mmpoggs2033 Před 6 lety

    So we are in a dome!? I thought so!

  • @flatearth2461
    @flatearth2461 Před 6 lety +17

    how on earth anybody survived 2yrs with her... painful

  • @Indeterminite
    @Indeterminite Před 4 lety +2

    I feel so sorry for these people. I couldn't imagine living in a glass dome for 2 years with this woman

  • @JustHuntr
    @JustHuntr Před rokem

    wow.. so the concrete is whats going to kill the earth? Basically?

  • @MJack2255
    @MJack2255 Před 6 lety +4

    I like how she says she walked into BioSphere and became one with it but left out for only 7 days before she had to leave for medical treatment because she hurt herself with something then had spare parts in the air lock with her when she came back in. I wanted to hear about the 8 people and the two factions. Not the same old bullshit she could have said in 5 minutes.

  • @Mattmlo
    @Mattmlo Před 15 lety +1

    Bio Dome!!!

  • @firstnamesecondname5341

    While her energy levels are admirable she needs to learn to turn the volume down, watching the 14 minutes from earth documentary and quite a few biosphere recordings, it seemed her over enthusiasm caused a few issues and subsequent oversight resulted in a couple of dangerous situations evolving

  • @MrBuddha974
    @MrBuddha974 Před 5 lety

    It’s better better to fail here than up there.

  • @pongfonge
    @pongfonge Před 15 lety +2

    Why do we make coffins so comfortable? They always look pretty damn cozy and they cost a fortune, but I'm not quite sure what the benefit is. I think I'll go with cremation and save some space for the living.
    PS
    That solar radiation will cause some gnarly sun burns. I think there are some ways colonists could cope on Mars but it's all theory. One low tech solution is burying the colonies under a few layers of Martian soil. This could help but well need more than this.

    • @chris-2496
      @chris-2496 Před 3 lety

      You won't go with anything when you are dead - you will be dead. The cosy coffin is for those saying goodbye to the deceased to honour the memory. The dead have not much say in this.

  • @cyphaflip
    @cyphaflip Před 15 lety

    Eh... the point of Biosphere 2 was to test if we could erect these self-contained, closed-system livable units on different PLANETS, and also to better understand the necessary components to create independent life-supporting systems for humans. Shortsightedness? Hardly.

  • @lakermangmx
    @lakermangmx Před 15 lety +1

    wiki : Marc Cooper wrote[that "the group that built, conceived, and directs the Biosphere project is not a group of high-tech researchers on the cutting edge of science but a clique of recycled theater performers that evolved out of an authoritarian and decidedly non-scientific personality cult".

  • @michaelmuturi12
    @michaelmuturi12 Před 4 lety +5

    one easy way to gauge the intellectual substance of Ted talk or you tube video; just look at the comments, this talk was a joke, as an ecologist, it's disappointing to see such a grand experiment wasted on people who were not serious, by the looks of it she was there for the thrills

  • @---ROWLEY---
    @---ROWLEY--- Před 3 lety

    I want to do it solitary.

  • @Zabakiller
    @Zabakiller Před 15 lety

    14:20 this picture is so wrong xD the dark part of earth should block the view on the stars behind it...

  • @whitepeoplergullible9241
    @whitepeoplergullible9241 Před 4 lety +3

    Who is seeing this in 2020?

  • @matthewr3570
    @matthewr3570 Před 3 lety

    They made a comedy movie about this didn’t they?

  • @heartobefelt
    @heartobefelt Před 12 lety +6

    If concrete inside the biosphere contributed to the loss of Oxygen , then what is the affect of the concrete jungles we live in ? cities use billions of tons of concrete , should we immediately start coating it all with a sealing membrane and change building codes to negate this problem ?
    after all . everything we do on earth affects the future of our biosphere

    • @startnotionstopmotionbob9878
      @startnotionstopmotionbob9878 Před 6 lety

      You apparently didn't listen to what she actually said, the concrete didn't absorb it directly/on it's own.

    • @scientchahming5
      @scientchahming5 Před 2 lety

      The difference is that cities are open air,

    • @luminatrixfanfiction
      @luminatrixfanfiction Před rokem

      I think there's a misconception here. Concrete absorbs CO2 to form Calcium Carbonate. It's not absorbing oxygen, just CO2 but that is equally bad because, plants need CO2 to survive and if concrete absorbs it, then you start to get a biosphere system failure. The main culprit of what was causing loss of oxygen was due to bacterial microbes in the soil which was consuming oxygen.

  • @bogdan2501
    @bogdan2501 Před 7 lety +23

    Why yell? I really wanted to hear the story... too bad

    • @baronvonbasscat
      @baronvonbasscat Před 6 lety +6

      same
      : (
      that strident voice is probably what doomed the Biosphere 2.
      BTW they should have called it Biosphere 1 because we live on Earth yo, not "B.S.1" ; D

    • @siriusleigh24
      @siriusleigh24 Před 3 lety

      I thought the same. Obviously doesn't know what the microphone was for.

  • @813k4
    @813k4 Před 3 lety +1

    i am here for school

  • @ratholin
    @ratholin Před 15 lety +1

    Yeah there should be a colonize and terraform game. Did you ever play sim earth back in the old days?

  • @thesunflowchannel1995
    @thesunflowchannel1995 Před 6 lety +7

    The whole thing was a fail. She cut the top of her finger and went to a HOSPITAL at around day 12. Later they started pumping oxygen in there lol.