Slashdot Mirror
More on Inflatable Space Hotels
StJefferson writes "It's anything but a traditional Budget Suites room, with a price tag projected to be somewhere in the range of US$50,000-100,000 per night. But Bob Bigelow's inflatable space habs will get their first trial next November, and are expected to go into production in 2008. There's even speculation that Bigelow is in talks with Burt Rutan regarding the small problem of getting customers to the door of his high-flying outposts. And the best part? Bigelow's doing this all on his own, as a private entrepreneurial venture. He's only answerable to his wife regarding the wisdom of this investment, and 'so far, she's on board.' Remind you Heinlein fans of anyone?" We've mentioned this guy before.
Bigelow has put a lot of thought into what space tourists would do while they're up there--everything from laser light shows on the dark side of the moon to phone calls placed to envious friends back home, to short space walks.
Phone call to friend: "Hey man, I am watching a KILLER laser light show at a Pink Floyd concert where they are playing on the dark side of the moon!"
MOONUNIT 555-555-1969
Friend: "The spoofed CallerID from your VoIP Asterik box is getting old and lay off the acid man, you're going to rot your brain. Next you are going to be telling me that you paid $1 million to spend a weekend in an inflatable hotel room in space."
But the question on everyone's minds is:
Will it be full of colourful balls and do you have to take your shoes off before going in?
"Curiouser and Curiouser" - Alice
include a Free Continental breakfast, or I'm not going.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
200 mile high club?
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
I hope the material they use is micro-meteorite proof.
--<POP>--
-- bleep - bleep - bleep
I wonder what sorta deals priceline.com will offer?
.00
1-Star Space Orbital
4-Star Deluxe
3-Star Upscale
2½-Star Moderate-Plus
2-Star Moderate
1-Star Economy
Name Your Own Price $
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
"I hope the material they use is micro-meteorite proof."
they have that covered... they're bringing a micro-bruce-willis
What's there to do in Delaware? Yet, people still go there.
The comment has already been made. Let's move it along people. Nothing to see here.
I hope they find a way to get the stink of sex out of those things... perhaps after every visitor depressurize it into space or something.
peace,
-Grokent
the phrase 'space hotel' and variants like 'spays hotale' to the block words in your spam blocker
Ok, with all the hype about a mile high club, what are the odds that people will pay $100k/night to boink in zero or near-zero gravity?
It sure as hell sounds more fun than going to Niagara Falls...
Information: "I want to be anthropomorphized"