European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 17, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 17 r in clonal geographic architects Maigret Augustine and Phil Howes with Model of the for biosphere i prototype to be completed by 1989. Self sustaining biosphere for space explorers by Mercer Cross National geographic humans will be exploring Mars in the  decades Many scientists predict such optimism will gain momentum from the presiden Olally appointed National commission on space which will Issue a report on the country s next so years of space activities. Manned exploration of the Moon and Mars Early in the next Century is expected to figure prominently in the report. Once they be arrived on the Moon. Mars or some other celestial body the. Explorers will  place to stay. A critical component of space colonization As the report will note will be biosphere greenhouse like self sustaining Erma Bombeck ecological systems Independent of Earth. A prototype biosphere Large enough to provide a Home away from Home for egg he Parsons or Kosher Lara is already moving toward reality at a 2,500 acre Lac Lilly called the suns Paca ranch conference Center in the Santa Catalina mountains near Oracle ariz., 30 Miles North of Tucson biosphere ii is he name of the $30 million Saven year project. It is being developed by a private company space biosphere ventures wet Meh has. Assembled a widely scattered team of scientists architects and planners. By Early 1989, the builders should be ready to have the Blos herlans go in and close the door for a two year slay in their diverse new environment says Carl n. Hodges director of the environmental research Laboratory Al the University of Arizona one of the project s chief contractors. Canadian Margret Augustine is the project director and co Arch Fleck of biosphere ii which is now in the design stage. In a presentation to the National space commission last november she described the component of the closed Structure. Within its slightly More than two acres 90,300 Square feet 3 million cubic get Iha prototype will House seven major ecosystems intensive agricultural systems a human habitat and Marine Marsh Savannah desert and Jungle biome. In the project s second year numerous experiments Are under Way. At the subspace Center a great Range of plants from All Over the world is being. Grown in a 17,00a-Square-foot greenhouse. In another building tissue cultures Are being developed we re looking at a Well balanced diet Augustine says otherwise we might have a Mutiny or  not that bios herlans will have to be vegetarians. We Are starting with a total. Food production system Hodges said in his presentation to . Commission. We do not plan to eat algae. The plan includes a number of animals Small goats Chicken fish and a few others. Everything in biosphere ii will have to sustain Lysell. Air will be circulated and purified through microbe filled chunks of dirt called soil Koch reactors. Biosphere arts will be Able to drink safely the same water that has been through the sewage and fish production systems Hodges says. Expertise from Many sources is being called upon to develop the biosphere s. Ecosystems. Down under the National museum of National history at the smithsonian institution in Washington. Scientists of the Marine systems. Laboratory Are building tanks that will House the Complex estuarine  at the new York botanical Garden s Institute of economic botany species Are being selected for the tropical rain Forest ecosystem. Work on the desert and Savannah ecosystems is being done in. The arid Tucson area. Apart from biosphere la s potential for space settlements. Hodges and his colleagues see it in More Down to Earlh terms As a Means of studying biosphere i the planet we now live on and helping solve the multiplying problems of its deteriorating environment i really believe that one of the problems of biosphere i is that it does t have another biosphere to talk  Hodges says. Biosphere la s Short term contribution in terms of biosphere i will be tremendous. That atone would be reason enough to do  but once the space commission issues its report with its projected timetable for . Interplanetary explorations the decades ahead attention will focus on the kind of lives people will live in space. Christopher p. Mckay a planetary scientist Al the National aeronautics and space administration s Ames research Center in California specializes in Mars settlement. The space commission report is important he a because it will legitimize talk about placing humans beyond Earth. La s no longer the Lunatic fringe it s mainstream  most scientists prefer an International Mars Mission achieved cooperatively by the United slates the soviet Union and perhaps other nations. Astronomer Carl Sagan president of the planetary society has said that such. A Mission would be an event As important As the colonization of the land by the first amphibians some 500 million years ago. It s time we All were honest about the common  Many people do you know who take their colds to bed drink lots of fluids and get plenty of rest everyone knows the Glrst thing you do with a cold is to get it up Shower it shave it if it is male and get it on the Road to somewhere. Ninety eight percent of the population take their colds to work Wilh Ham 70 percent take it to the theater 40 percent take their colds to a Lull sick people in the Hospital and some treat theirs to a hockey Gama a ride in an open convertible or a Marathon. Anything to get the cold s mind Olf itself. Once you dress a cold put eyeliner on it and splash it with Giorgio it does t look so bad and you can Palm yourself off As Well. There was a Lime when the cold was taken seriously. Gentle hands tucked you Between clean sheets and brought you trays of food took your temperature and pulled the blinds to let you sleep. I was in a deep sleep the other morning when my husband said Are you going to sleep All Day i have a cold i said. " everyone in the country has it. A lot of it is going  that s what they said about the bubonic plague and they la you sleep  you re not going to let a common cold flatted you of Are you just Gat up and move around and you won t think about  mine is uncommon. It does t want to be  i want to listen in to your conversation when you Call and Tell someone you can t write co urn because you havea cold i m telling you i can t pry my eyes open my body is burning up and my hair hurts i suppose that Means you re not going to pick up the film i dropped off last  i honestly Don t know what ii takes to immobilize people anymore. Not Only is the cold not taken seriously but other witnesses and infirmities Are no longer put to bed nor do they invite compassion. Remember when a broken leg kept you from flying to a business appointment in l.a.7 Hay you just leave a Little More time to drag from Gale 6 to Gale 42. Dental surgery is a Long lunch hour and women plan their deliveries around a Holiday weekend. Frankly i d like to sea the common cold restored to the respect and prestige it once enjoyed. Think How wonderful it would be to sneeze and have someone guide you by the Elbow to a chair. Or cough and in the next instant see fresh Lowers by your bedside. Or to have your Boss say stay Home stay warm and Call when you feel like getting  until that happens a cold is just another gift that keeps giving. It in Loi angles tint Syf Rikuta