[quote=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33579859/ns/technology_and_science-space/?GT1=43001]BARCELONA, Spain - A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and time frame for the multi-billion dollar project.
The Barcelona-based architects of The Galactic Suite Space Resort say it will cost $4.4 million for a three-night stay at the hotel, with this price including an eight-week training course on a tropical island.
During their stay, guests would see the sun rise 15 times a day and travel around the world every 80 minutes. They would wear Velcro suits so they can crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman.
Galactic Suite Ltd's CEO Xavier Claramunt, a former aerospace engineer, said the project will put his company at the forefront of an infant industry with a huge future ahead of it, and forecast space travel will become common in the future.
"It's very normal to think that your children, possibly within 15 years, could spend a weekend in space," he told Reuters Television.
A nascent space tourism industry is beginning to take shape with construction underway in New Mexico of Spaceport America, the world's first facility built specifically for space-bound commercial customers and fee-paying passengers.
British tycoon Richard Branson's space tours firm, Virgin Galactic, will use the facility to propel tourists into suborbital space at a cost of $200,000 a ride.
Galactic Suite Ltd, set up in 2007, hopes to start its project with a single pod in orbit 280 miles above the earth, with the capacity to hold four guests and two astronaut-pilots.
It will take a day and a half to reach the pod — which Claramunt compared to a mountain retreat, with no staff to greet the traveler.
"When the passengers arrive in the rocket, they will join it for three days, rocket and capsule. With this we create in the tourist a confidence that he hasn't been abandoned. After three days the passenger returns to the transport rocket and returns to earth," he said.
More than 200 people have expressed an interest in traveling to the space hotel and at least 43 people have already reserved.
The numbers are similar for Virgin Galactic with 300 people already paid or signed up for the trip but unlike Branson, Galactic Suite say they will use Russian rockets to transport their guests into space from a spaceport to be build on an island in the Caribbean.
But critics have questioned the project, saying the time frame is unreasonable and also where the money is coming from to finance the project.
Claramunt said an anonymous billionaire space enthusiast has granted $3 billion to finance the project.
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Whats there to do in space?
The time frame seems a little optimistic.
Fucking A.
Space hotel always sounded so kickass
[quote]"It's very normal to think that your children, possibly within 15 years, could spend a weekend in space," he told Reuters Television.[/quote]
FUCK THE CHILDREN
I'LL GO INSTEAD
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'Bout goddamn time.
And then it explodes and cause APOCALYPCE
Fuck yeah, I love space :v:
2012? I don't think so
sounds like a great place to lose your virginity, fucking space :smug:
Shit, I was hoping it would be on the moon
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and then it would esplode and people would be all like arhghghghfsdfgsgfhgags
[quote]During their stay, guests would see the sun rise 15 times a day and travel around the world every 80 minutes. They would wear Velcro suits so they can crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman.[/quote]
I'm Going.
[QUOTE=lum1naire;18158825]sounds like a great place to lose your virginity, fucking space :smug:[/QUOTE]
When you masturbate in the space hotel white shit will be flying all over the room
[QUOTE=lum1naire;18158825]sounds like a great place to lose your virginity, fucking space :smug:[/QUOTE]
Zero-gravity sex. Awesome.
Not unless it has artificial gravity...
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[QUOTE=Wii60;18158854]When you masturbate in the space hotel white shit will be flying all over the room[/QUOTE]
what if semen accidently flies into your mouth
"OH SHIT"
I think they are going to take payments for reservations in 2012, and then they can go to the hotel in 2099.
Sounds cool, but I get the feeling it's a few years too early.
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what if semen accidently flies into your mouth
"OH SHIT"[/QUOTE]
Yeah......accidentally....
:smug:
[QUOTE=Water|Marine;18159128]Yeah......accidentally....
:smug:[/QUOTE]
Damn it, I knew you would be behind the "accidental" zero-grav semen drinks!
[QUOTE=Aurora93;18158869]what if semen accidently flies into your mouth
"OH SHIT"[/QUOTE]
Hehe.
Damn I love spiderman. And damn I love zero-gravity sex. Should still be worth noting however that 2001: A Space Odyssey has made me fucking scared of space. Imagine that big eyeball motherfucker just staring at you as you blast projectile semen at your fiance's face from 12 feet away.
Any "OHMAHGOD 2012 ENDOFTHEWORLD" people can suck my dick.
Awesome. We get to pay money to shit in a bag.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;18159360]Awesome. We get to pay money to shit in a bag.[/QUOTE]
What?
Of course not. Your feces will be expelled into space, where it will splatter upon a UFO whose residents will praise it as a multipurpose adhesive. Kind of like that black dude that invented all the stuff you can make with peanuts.
Wikipedia has an article about sex and/or breasts in outer space.
I very much want to test their hypotheses.
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[QUOTE=Umi-hebi;18159436]eeeeeeEeeeeeeEEeeEEeeEEEEEEEEEEEEeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE[/QUOTE]
That's from 2001: A space Odyssey, not XFiles.
I only got that because I'm actually listening to the XFiles theme now.
Is it bad that I read "Spiderman," as, "Slenderman?"
I was wondering, "why the fuck is Slenderman being referenced in a news article?"
oh god that's kinda scary
2012 Come On :(
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