بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
I was helping a new revert Muslimah to memorize al-fatihah and correcting her pronounciation the other day. To my surprise, she pronounced "bismillah al-rahman al-raheem" into al-rajeem, which will deliver totally opposite meaning. She's a Panamas. Understood. Then I told her to write in whichever way works best for her to prounce "raheem" not "rajeem". Therefore, to avoid confusion, it is better to read it from the original scripture, not the transliterated one :)
Thanks to the super long intro, today's post is to share my great experience in Biosphere 2, a mega experiments facilities which is one hour drive to the north of Tucson. Let's see what Tucson has to offer other than our magnificent cacti:
Biosphere 2 was actually an attempt to imitate natural biological processes on Earth through a smaller and reachable scale. Everything here seems like another world for me, especially when this facility is built in the middle of desert! Under one roof, these scientists tried to imitate the actual climate, accommodating for tropical region, sub-tropical and desert, of course. I was really excited, I missed the tropical breeze, the odor of the waterfall, the green jungle.
Our lucky day, few other companies were having their booth to demonstrate their newly hybrid cars and solar cars.
Oh well oh well, what a coincident professor! My enthusiastic professor showing me how DFQ works in the REAL world.
This is the cross section of a meteorite. It was actually pretty shiny, heavy!
Another collection of meterorites
Inside - GREEN! I've been seeing reds, yellows, all this while, what a relieve~~~
Jakun nampak lalang
Hutan....oh...
"Ocean" look at the corals
This is a diaphragm, resembling the function of a real diaphragm within human's body. What it does is during the day when plats transpire the most in the facilities, the black-rubberized top part of it will expand, accommodating more spacing for oxygen. The black-rubberized ceiling is said to have the strength of sustaining the maximum oxygen's capacity transpired by the plants in the facilities.
On the same day, the facility was having an opening ceremony for the newly adopted hydrological system from Oman. It is called the falaj system, really useful for this kind of arid environment. The falaj system monopolized the right geometry to have a maximum supply for water from top of the mountain. This method was practiced thousand of years in desert area and is introduced for UA studies.
The systematic sequence of supply in the falaj syatem prioritize the water for wudu', then distributed for drinking, house chores and finally for vegetations and farming.
Finding anemone!
And finally, food!!
This trip was before finals exams - I know, I suppose not to be hanging out that often, but this is a priceless experience :) Though the scientists had been trying so hard to build this facility to what we have seen it today, nothing is comparable to the mother's nature that Allah SWT has already created for us, in a systematic, precise creation. 10 years of experiments, these scientists claimed that the difficulties they faced made them stronger and they just cannot stop, for the next generation to continue what they had already begun. True, but to me, that's a clear sign that no matter how hard we tried to defy His creation, tried to make one creation, as close as we possible, as perfect as we can be, we will never succeed. There will always be some flaws here and there - Allahuakbar :)
After all, I have been writing "much" about Biosphere 2, you probably wonder. Then, what is biosphere 1? What do you think it is? :)
After all, I have been writing "much" about Biosphere 2, you probably wonder. Then, what is biosphere 1? What do you think it is? :)
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