Re: [FRIAM] Biospheres

2024-03-01 Thread Steve Smith
rambling free-association hath no bounds:     Synergia Ranch is just a hop-skip-stumble from Bonanza Creek where Trump-impersonator extra-ordinaire Alec Balwin shot somebody with an antique pistol that was "supposed to be" unloaded or blanked. The litigation continues as right-wingers (or

Re: [FRIAM] Biospheres

2024-03-01 Thread Steve Smith
I think you're thinking of Flynn's brother, Morris  ;-p I see what you did there... (not) Errol Flynn but (not) Morris Flynn either => Errol Morris -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group

Re: [FRIAM] Biospheres

2024-03-01 Thread Stephen Guerin
I think you're thinking of Flynn's brother, Morris ;-p On Fri, Mar 1, 2024, 2:03 PM Steve Smith wrote: > SG... so succinct with sufficient but not excess tangents, I bow to you! > > And then I tangent again. Your reference to Bannon's "help" with > Biosphere I (aka earth/gaia/mother-earth)

Re: [FRIAM] Biospheres

2024-03-01 Thread Steve Smith
SG... so succinct with sufficient but not excess tangents, I bow to you! And then I tangent again.  Your reference to Bannon's "help" with Biosphere I (aka earth/gaia/mother-earth) reminds me to offer up: American Dharma a documentary by Errol Flynn

Re: [FRIAM] Biospheres

2024-03-01 Thread Steve Smith
e the ocean is possible. The answer would have been yes, but not for fish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_rover -J. Original message From: Steve Smith Date: 3/1/24 7:26 PM (GMT+01:00) To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Biospheres Thanks for this prompt.  I r

Re: [FRIAM] Biospheres

2024-03-01 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 10:04 AM Jochen Fromm wrote: > Biosphere 2 near Tuscon was a similar, even more extreme experiment to > create a self-sustaining ecosystem. The experiment was considered a failure > and the whole center belongs now to the University of Arizona. >

Re: [FRIAM] Biospheres

2024-03-01 Thread Steve Smith
J - Thanks for this prompt.  I recently tripped over: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/martians-wanted-nasa-opens-call-for-simulated-yearlong-mars-mission/ and was reminded of my maunderings when Musk first stated his aspirations for Mars colonization acutely or eloquently enough to

[FRIAM] Biospheres

2024-03-01 Thread Jochen Fromm
Corentin de Chatelperron and Caroline Pultz tried to live for 120 days in the Mexican desert self sufficiently, growing their own food. Using their own desalination machines they generated fresh water for the plants and themselves