Biosphere 2 and the challenges they’d faced in the early- to mid-nineties. A crew had volunteered to try and survive in a dome under the hot desert sun. At first, things had gone well enough. Then the bees died. Roaches appeared. A few times, those in charge of the project had had to pump oxygen into the enclosure, which was technically cheating, to stop those within from suffocating. Everyone inside grew too thin, too hungry, bones stark against skin as they lost weight; chemicals that had been stored in their fat from pesticides they’d eaten had poisoned the air. They’d begun fighting.
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the house of the scorpion (sequel?)
