Civilization might have been better served if, on that fateful evening in 1997, John de Mol had just called it a night and gone to sleep. But he couldn't stop brooding about television. It was dose to midnight, at the end of a long and fruitless brainstorming session, when someone had mentioned Biosphere 2―the American media stunt that locked four men and four women in a giant glass bubble in the desert for two years. At 5 a.m. the next morning, De Mol had his inspiration.
展开▼
机译：如果在1997年那个决定性的夜晚，约翰·德·莫尔（John de Mol）刚把它称为一个晚上并入睡，文明就可以得到更好的服务。但是他无法停止沉迷于电视。直到午夜，一个漫长而毫无结果的头脑风暴结束时，有人提到了生物圈2号（Biosphere 2），这是美国媒体的特技，将四男四女锁定在沙漠中一个巨大的玻璃气泡中两年。第二天早上5点，De Mol获得了灵感。
展开▼
