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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by Tangurena2 on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:12AM (#45604907)
The Biosphere 2 project was an attempt to see what the smallest self-sustaining ecosystem (that would feed humans and recycle air/water) would be. For a crew of 8 people, the area of plants, crops & wetland covered 3.14 acres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2

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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by mcv on Thursday October 16, 2025 @10:27AM (#45605781)
If I recall correctly, it ran into a number of problems, and they abandoned it when oxygen levels dropped too much. So I don't think this counts as having mastered it.
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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by rtkwe on Thursday October 16, 2025 @10:41AM (#45605947)
They were also quite naturalistic though too, they could have packed more into a smaller area with vertical aeroponics etc to decrease the area.
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