Titanic Terrarium references

 




"Growing up in a biosphere
No respect for bad weather"

Biosphere's, like this impressive looking thing:

are enclosed reproductions of the Earth's unique atmosphere and environment which allow living organisms to grow. These man made contraptions can support life-forms, and people do live in these artificial environments for years at a time. A powerful and moving documentary of such an endeavor was released a few years ago:

 "...There's a trace of mint wafting in from the North
so we don't fuck with the 401"

The 401 is the busiest highway in Canada and runs east and west across the province of Ontario. It's notorious for it's traffic, especially in the Greater Toronto Area, so motorists who can avoid messing with it, do. 

"...His great grandfather worked for Goodyear"
He'd see the blimp on Sunday's."

Goodyear is a successful tire manufacturer, who also own a blimp. The airship, with massive Goodyear logo displayed on it's side, usually shows up over heavily attended Sunday afternoon football games. This kinda makes you wonder if there's something more than just coincidence and the 'love of flying' at work here.

"...he helped build the Titanic"

The Titanic was a big ship on a bad trip. The museum's resident Titanic expert, suggests that this website can teach you everything you ever wanted to know about the subject. Personally, after hearing 9,876 speeches about the boat in grade and middle school, I think I've got it down.

"...Terrarium"

A Terrarium is a greenhouse-style enclosed environment, much like a biosphere, where you can grow all sorts of crazy stuff, including poisonous frogs apparently.