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Hotel Tycoon Pushes Inflatable Space Stations
heptapod writes "Reclusive millionaire and motel tycoon Robert Bigelow has announced launching inflatable space stations through his personal aerospace firm. He's working off of NASA's TransHab designs and hopes to get launch one as early as November 2005! I'm sure after someone wins the X Prize they'll need someplace to stay the night. I wonder if each inflatable station module won't come with complimentary bibles."
I wonder if each inflatable station module won't come with complimentary bibles.
But will the bibles be inflatable as well?
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Who needs bibles when you could put one of these up there?
It'd be worrying if you saw a sign before leaving with
"bring a bike pump.... your life may depend on it!"
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Hotels do not place bibles in the rooms, the Gideons do.
So you'd have to wait for them to visit the place and put some bibles there first.
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
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them's some expensive arse space bibles!
current going rate of $10,000 a pound, I believe the shuttles had? maybe minus an order of magnitude.
you need to make up your mind. A hotel is where you stay when you take your family on vacation, a motel is where you take the hooker you just picked up. If he's a motel tycoon, then I'm bringing my own sheets for the bed when I go on one of those inflatable stations.
Truly, we need space inflatable jumping castles. Inflatable space stations? Bah!
I don't think this is worthy of an X-Prize so much as a Darwin award.
but the lack of gravity might put a slight damper on your plans there.
Making the moon less necessary since 1998.
Providing space? That must be like shipping ice to the north pole. ;-P
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I saw the headline "Hotel Tycoon Pushes Inflatable Space Stations" and thought it was about a video game (Railroad Tycoon-esque) with hotels where you could build inflatable space hotels too.
Disappointment runs rampant!
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... and they protect against sexually transmitted diseases without reducing sensitivity.
Hmmm.....
Sounds more like a space Youth Hostel!
Bring a sleep sack and a TOWEL!
I don't want a pickle; I just want a Motor-Cycle! A four foot cop arrived with a five foot gun!
They'd already be in heaven, so they'd be in the clear.
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...equipped with obvious and conveniently located self-destruct button.
SpaceShipOne has just entered LEO. Wait a minute. You're not Mike Melville!
No, I'm not. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Hey, do you know where I can find a subway? I sure am hungry.
Someone hates these cans.
People have got to do something at those space-stations right? Here's an idea :
Robert Bigelo : inflatable Gigolo
They'll take a really deep breath before they leave the atmosphere.
Ah, the atmosphere.
NASA has decided that astronaut food rations will now include a large supply of beans.
...now this! This whole inflatable tech is really taking off!
Reclusive millionaire and motel tycoon Robert Bigelow.....
Male jigalo?
Sue me, it rhymes.
2000 pieces of space junk? That's about the same amount as the pieces of junk I have under my bed. Spread out around the entire planet, they would be far apart.
And will they ship two, or prvide a hermaphoradite to save launch mass?
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I will wait until the mark X model is tested. Thank you very much.
Oddly enough, the marketing department has decided to call the prototype the Mark X.
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Inflatable space stations will go nicely with inflatable space ships:
Is air the answer to space?
if only it were.
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Can't wait to see the bubble burst on this one...
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Grrr. You cannot posibly have any idea how angry i get when people blame violence on the existence of a religion
... but, I suppose, if you weren't religious, you wouldn't get so very angry, right?
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I read the Bible for the sex and violence, myself.
POP!
You can jam it into the hole that air is leaking out of :)
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"Well, a 5 star hotel is considered the cream of the crop but what about a hotel full of stars?" In other news, Motel 6 has changed their slogan from "We'll leave the light on for you." to "My God, it's full of stars!"
Branson just crossed the channel in a car and GHWB just jumped out of a plane, so I guess the other billionaires are feeling somewhat inadequate.
I say let's see more of this, perhaps as a new reality TV show. Except with middle managers and annointed CEOs doing the dangerous stuff with outsourced safety checking.
Uhmm, those bibles in hotel rooms aren't complimentary... you're supposed to leave them when you leave.
VIII. Thou shalt not steal.
Did you READ it, or just steal it?
Really, all jokes aside.
I hate to burst your bubble, but I think you're full of hot air. Costs will balloon, profits will float away, and resources will be stretched too tight. Greenspan is predicting renewed inflation, which will cause investors to gasp for breath. I expect this project to be strung along until it hits a snag, then its finished.
Now I have a place I can take my inflatable girlfriend, and not get shunned.
In Soviet Russia, the hotel inflates YOU!
Worst inflatable hotel EVER.
Yeah, next thing you know, some jackass will start leaving Knoppix liveCDs in the rooms!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
although the Americans have learnt some of the tricks the Russians have found and are catching up.
For example, the USA spent trillions of dollars developing an urban legend that could work in zero-gravity, while the Russians simply used a pencil.
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The hotel guests will go to their window to see the staggering view of the earth. Instead they are greeted with a stunning view of the inflatable McDonalds that just went up across from the hotel. Hey at least weight won't be a problem until they come home.
Zero-G jumping castles! :D