奥拉AURA

位于亚利桑那州奥拉克是“生物圈2号”建筑的所在地。在最初运行的几年里，八名“生物宇航员”潜心于一个实验，看看在另一个星球上建这么一个封闭系统是否可行，那里是亚利桑那州访问量第二大的旅游景点(第一大的是大峡谷)。
Located in Oracle, AZ, is the building that houses “Biosphere 2.” During the first years of operation when a troupe of eight “bionauts” were sealed inside in an experiment meant to establish the viability of such a closed system for use on another planet, it was Arizona’s second most visited tourist attraction (the first being the Grand Canyon).

在他们1986年出版的书《空间生态圈》中,约翰·艾伦和前船员马克·尼尔森说生物圈2号的原型是一种使人类实现“宇宙不灭”的模型，以解决不相干的地球上的问题。人口爆炸带来的负担,农业对环境的压力,技术瘫痪,矿物和化石燃料的消耗, 以及在这个超负荷的地球上其它潜在的不利条件，将阻止人类的不断扩张。艾伦在《生物圈2号:人类实验》中就是这么写的。
In their 1986 book, Space Biospheres, John Allen and former crew member Mark Nelson said Biosphere 2 is the prototype for a means of enabling man to achieve "cosmic immortality" to render irrelevant earthly issues before "the burdens of population explosion, agricultural stress on the environment, technological paralysis, mineral and fossil fuel depletion, and numerous other potentially debilitating conditions of an over-burdened planet will prevent the expansion of the human species," as Allen wrote in Biosphere 2: The Human Experiment.

但是由于出现了一些技术上的困难，这个崇高的目标被放弃了。1986年，图森亚利桑那大学环境研究实验室的卡尔·霍奇斯说，之前的生物圈展示了“如何更好地管理生物圈1号”的潜力。霍奇斯还说：“科学家们将…有能力引入污染物到系统中，然后跟随它们的路径和监测它们对于整个系统的影响。因此，像地下水污染、酸雨或“温室效应”导致的地球变暖等问题都可以在实验室里精确地进行研究。
But with the onset of a few technical difficulties, this lofty goal was abandoned and brought to the fore Biosphere’s potential to show “how to do a better job of stewardship of Biosphere I”, as Carl Hodges, of the University of Arizona’s Environmental Research Laboratory in Tucson, said in 1986. “Scientists will ... be able to introduce contaminants into the system, then follow their path and measure their effects throughout the system. Thus, problems like ground-water contamination, acid rain or the warming of the Earth due to the ‘greenhouse effect’ could be studied with laboratory precision,” Hodges said.

● 生物圈2号 - 简介
● Biosphere II - Intro

● 费用和时间
● Fees， Hours

● 方位
● Directions

● 十天天气预报
● 10 day weather forecast