Rented a new documentary (on iTunes) called Spaceship One which is about the Biosphere Two project back in the early 90s. If that rings a bell, that was the self-contained environment that a bunch of people built to see if they could sustain themselves and their plants and animals for two years without outside assistance, air, food, or water.
So there was a lot I didn’t know about this story, it being something I casually watched with very mild interest back in the day. I just mainly recall that it happened and there was controversy and that it ultimately failed. I didn’t know the scientists who set it up were actually a bunch of 1960s hippies from San Francisco with a lot of technical and capitalist know-how. That they really wanted to prove the bio dome could work and that humans could thrive on another world. That there were accusations of a cult… and that, when things went south, a name in modern day Trump’s circle was involved.
Which is all well and good, but I kind of wanted to know more about the technical end of things and mostly the movie was interested in the personalities and media hype driving it. I wanted to know what went wrong in greater detail than the movie was offering. Which is fair enough… that’s not the movie they wanted to make. So what they did make was still pretty interesting but not on the level I wanted.
Still, a decent documentary with a lot of fascinating personalities and great, big plans. Interesting if you have vague memories of the hooplah and media hype but maybe don’t remember the details. A decent watch…
Score: 79