Bio-Dome Today

I'm sure most of you remember 1996's laugh riot known as "Bio-Dome", I've actually been meaning to revisit this film for a while, I keep forgetting though because I have to remember to do important things (I'm downloading it while writing this actually). There was a story on Gizmodo a little while ago, talking about an abandoned "Bio-Sphere", take a fucking guess where they filmed "Bio-Dome"?... In the muthafuckin' Bio-Sphere!! The initial "Bio-Sphere" experiments were a lot like I remember the probably still awesome movie, "Bio-Dome". Teams of scientists would live in this enclosure for extended periods of time with out being able to leave. Over the course of development and experiments from 1985-2007, over $200 million dollars was invested in the Bio-Sphere. A real estate developer bought it for $50 million in 2007 with plans of building homes, and a resort/spa. Unfortunately this never panned out either :( that would have been pretty cool to live or vacation in the Bio-Sphere. For a good amount of time it was being used for nothing, just abandoned but it was recently purchased by Univ. of Arizona for tours and research and stuff. Below you'll find some pictures of the Bio-Sphere whilst it was essentially abandoned and a (weak sauce) map. click to enlarge