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Not At All - The Lesson Is Don't Depend on A Closed System

Go to the Moon and you need a Biosphere 2 or a lot of shipments from Earth. Go to Mars and you can replessih your H2O, carbon, nitrogen, and O2 (through electrolysis) supplies at will. Biosphere 2 was a failure, but not a miserable failure that needed much more than a small input of fresh supplies. There was a tremendous amount of engineering that came close to being self sustaining.

Regards,
Mark

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