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Space Hotel Shoots for the Stars

Bill M
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Galactic Suite Limited, a Barcelona-based company, is ambitiously planning to open the first ever space hotel in orbit around Earth by 2012. The hotel, a pod-like structure with portholes for viewing, will orbit the Earth once every 80 minutes. That’s 15 sunrises per day. The price of a 3-day stay aboard the Galactic Suite will run $4 million. That price includes 8 weeks of space camp training on a tropical island prior to launch. A generous $3 billion investment by a mystery space enthusiast, and further cash injections by investors in the US, Japan, and United Arab Emirates just might bring this seemingly sci-fi adventure to fruition.

 

Note: The sheer ambition of this project, in such an immediate time-frame, should illicit some degree of skepticism, including the possibility of a hoax.

Comments

The Cheap Seats?

Submitted by Talat Jonathan Phillips on Wed, 10/03/2007 - 10:29.
I hope I'm still around when this is affordable for your average Joe. I realize this is also how the airline industry started - only the well-off (admittedly not super-wealthy) could afford it. Hopefully, this will eventually lead to a Jet-Blue to the Moon for the rest of humanity. Of course, I've got my fingers crossed that by then it'll be a zero point/clean energy ship taking us up to an eco-sustainable "transition town." For now, this kind of money might be better spent saving all of us on the Earth's surface.

A Room for 6.5 Billion People

Submitted by sidecross on Fri, 10/05/2007 - 16:25.

According to Susan Sontag 80% of the human population does not have access to water in their dwellings, and the water near by is not necessarily safe or clean.

Whether this is a hoax or not concerning “Galactic Suite” the concern for water on this planet will soon make the concern for fossil fuels insignificant, and the concept for a “Galactic Suite” a concern only for the true ‘elites’.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

T. S. Eliot