¶ Biosphere
Index Entry
Biosphere:
“I’ll come back to your question about space. The point being that science has not done anything really about man until they were forced to do a little bit in medical science, but then only on a repair basis rather than on really how to service and understand him. . . You find there is really a very great ignorance of what is really necessary to actually support human beings, to keep them going. It is really an extraordinary matter that the minute you go out of our biosphere, the minute that you get out from this bountiful supply that we’ve had, you now for the first time really find out what is necessary to keep a man going. . . Men have been going to the moon on a sandwich and thermos bottle basis. It has been very easy to have that much, but when we talk about staying outside the biosphere for more than a year, then you really have, for the first time, to discover what really supports a man.”
¶ Citations
- WATTS TAPE, pp. 6-7, 19 Oct '70
