New outer-space hotels designed for rich people

[The Man]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/27/space-hotel-rich-thrill-world

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

Disgusting, but not surprising. Remember when they rambled on about the necessity of inventing a space currency? The reasoning went that earth-cash would be clumsy and not so useful in space and would go around being dangerous projectiles, but they seemed oblivious to the fact that maybe there was no need for money in space-- well, they were probably thinking of making people in space pay for drinks and food in vending machines and futuristic space hotels on Mars for the rich fucks to enjoy themselves. Soon we'll get the armoured money transports from the colonies and the robbers trying to get at the space cash...

[ckaihatsu]

Ehhhhhhhh, I'd just be watching cable the entire time I was there....


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[anarcho-communist4]

Something for asteroids and other space debris to hit.

[Princess Luna]

I love this idea! Space "hotels" would most likely be risky in the beginning, so using rich fuckers as guinea pigs seems like a great idea

[ckaihatsu]

Watch Dominique Strauss-Kahn get busted *up there*...!


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[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Let's send them all up there, expenses paid, then destroy the means of their return.

[ckaihatsu]

Fucking "land" speculators....

[Le Socialiste]

Anybody else get the feeling that this will just end up with the rich migrating to Mars, with the intent of forcing their will on the masses from afar? I'm sure it isn't the reasoning behind such proposals, but I wouldn't be surprised if it became a convenient choice of action. I say let the fuckers be shipped off after we topple them and throw away the proverbial key, thus ensuring they can't ever trouble us again.

[ckaihatsu]

Actually the crisis of capitalism will be resolved with the super-rich elite taking to orbit and living in swanky floating mansions, turning earth into a giant resource colony under threat of total nuclear annihilation. At least that's what-- oh, wait, maybe I shouldn't have just-- um, okay, never mind.


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[Rss]

ICBM blowing those things up would make pretty fireworks. Or maybe they should be converted to mining stations and bumped towards asteroids. "Get this amount of minerals and we'll tow you back to Earth orbit. Maybe."

I want to become a space pirate so much.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

It's a tremendous waste of resources just for the titillation of a few wealthy businessmen but I guess anybody who is angry at this is just an angry envy filled communist... according to some comments on that article. :lol:

As much as I would like to experience Space, I personally don't envy anybody who wants to spend their time strapped to a rickety Soyuz rocket then spend a week floating about in a prison capsule with only a few inches of rubber and metal between their organs and the infinite freezing vacuum of space.

Like Concorde all it will take is one accident and a Youtube video of Bill Gates' head exploding like a watermelon, then it's all over.

[piet11111]

First one to hack the airlocks gets a cookie.

But seriously if this is what it takes to keep humanity in space then *ugh* let them have their space hotels.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I'd rather they spent their money on this sort of thing, rather than on shit like aircraft carriers and solid gold bidets. At least this has the possibility of becoming cheaper and more widely available. Cars used to be little more than a rich man's toy, and now there have been over 40 million produced (http://www.worldometers.info/cars/) as of this year alone. Of course, the demise of the private internal combustion vehicle is not far off, but the resources of space are far greater than the sum total of biotic hydrocarbon deposits in the Earth. In terms of energy expenditure, once you're in Earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere.

Another plus is that space, or at least the bits of it we can reach, doesn't have an ecosystem that can be fucked up.

[ckaihatsu]

Hey, maybe the privatization of space will be a *good* thing -- after all, why put out for NASA's hardware when rich people will *pay* to go to space to take snapshots, and then we can just buy *those* photos from them instead -- ?


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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), previously known as Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) is a planned next-generation space telescope, optimized for observations in the infrared.




JWST's capabilities will enable a broad range of investigations across many subfields of astronomy.[4] One particular goal involves observing some of the most distant objects in the universe, beyond the reach of current ground and space based instruments. This includes the very first stars, the epoch of reionization, and the formation of the first galaxies.




As of 2011, the mission is under review for cancellation by the United States Congress. At that time, about 3 billion USD had been spent,[5] and more than 75 percent of its hardware is either in production or undergoing testing.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope

[Impulse97]

Sigh....those trips and hotels are everything I've ever wanted to do in space short of going to another galaxy and meeting aliens...I knew I'd never be able to afford it, but seeing the nearly million $ price tag just crushed even the dream...:closedeyes:

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Hey, maybe the privatization of space will be a *good* thing -- after all, why put out for NASA's hardware when rich people will *pay* to go to space to take snapshots, and then we can just buy *those* photos from them instead -- ?


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You think I don't have a problem with pointless spending cuts? :rolleyes:

[ckaihatsu]

Sigh....those trips and hotels are everything I've ever wanted to do in space short of going to another galaxy and meeting aliens...I knew I'd never be able to afford it, but seeing the nearly million $ price tag just crushed even the dream...:closedeyes:


Dude -- can't the aliens at least meet you half-way -- ???


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[Salyut]

These projects come out of Russia every couple of years. They tend to vanish after a short publicity run; used to be more common in the 90's but the space economy got better...somewhat...

[DeBon]

Rite. We can stick people in space in the name of luxury, but there are people starving in - ah it's not worth it. That's Capitalism for you.

[Summerspeaker]

I'd rather they spent their money on this sort of thing, rather than on shit like aircraft carriers and solid gold bidets. At least this has the possibility of becoming cheaper and more widely available.

Do I detect a desire to experience zero gravity? :lol: For my part, I'll readily admit to such. If I were stupidly rich and didn't give a damn the rest of the species (that's redundant, isn't it?), I'd be all about space tourism. But it's of course utter nonsense and extravagance given the social context.


Cars used to be little more than a rich man's toy, and now there have been over 40 million produced (http://www.worldometers.info/cars/) as of this year alone.

Yeah, and look out how well that's worked out. :(

[XenoLair]

Soon: All the rich people will start living in space or on Mars and us poor sobs will live on earth working our asses off so they can enjoy themselves. This already exists, the rich just have to distance themselves away more.