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Self-enclosed large scale ecosystem projects have been unsuccessful ths far, and not for lack of trying. What do you think it would take to make it work?
No idea - I'm not an expert on them. How many serious attempts have been made? I know of only one.
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Maybe a better question is: what do you think would take to make it work?
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it's like deep learning. complex life only stable at a certain scale. In order for a tropical biome to work, do you need the ocean?
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there's a short list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_ecological_system#Examples … Also every high school "eco-column" ever (self-enclosed biosphere with sunlight as only input, they usually die in ~2 weeks)
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in the most optimistic scenario, this is simply a software control problem in which carbon/water/nutrient cycle is carefully regulated. In the least optimistic scenario, all biomes smaller than a biosphere are provably unstable :(
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