[ExI] What happens to US space programs after November?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:42 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 2:34 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> *> How about a self-sufficient and enclosed colony in Arizona?*
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
>>
>
> Biosphere two was a fiasco that was never self-sufficient, not even for
> food and air much less for more sophisticated stuff.
>

True.  But at least they tried, which is far more than most investigations
do; those who studied its failure now know some things not to do.  And its
remnants are still producing related science.

An effort like Biosphere 2 doesn't have to completely successfully
replicate a lunar colony in order to successfully produce useful results.
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