Not to be out-done by Emily and her recent tourist adventures, I have headed over to Tucson, Arizona, to spend a few days with David, and his father, David the First. David the First lives at the foot of some hills, surrounded by endless, cloudless skies, and fifty-foot tall cacti. Did you know the “arms” of a cactus grow to balance it as it gets taller? And that cacti grow straight up because that way they get the least of the high noon sun? It is pretty incredibly gorgeous here.
Today, we drove north a bit to visit Biosphere 2. I can’t recall having encountered any scholarly articles about this experiment gone awry, but it seems like a science studies dream come true. The outside is pretty amazing, it’s like Caprica City, or something out of Logan’s Run, as you can see here. Inside, it’s a bit of a mess, but the underground tour of the “South Lung” — a giant steel and rubber structure that somehow allows the Biosphere to “breathe” so it doesn’t explode or implode due to external temperature changes — was pretty frakkin awesome. I also enjoyed the peek into one of the apartments lived in by the original “Biospherians,” as our tour guide referred to them.
After leaving Biosphere 2 for Biosphere 1, David 1 and 2 and I headed a bit out of the center of Tucson for a delicious Mexican lunch. Burritos here are called burros, and I discovered the Michelada, a tangy and delicious beer cocktail. The recipe here seems like a good version of what I had. And don’t skip the black pepper, it seals the deal.
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