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Hatsune Miku
November 14th, 2009, 04:31 AM
BARCELONA (Reuters) -- "Galactic Suite", the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for business in 2012 and would allow guests to travel around the world in 80 minutes.

Its Barcelona-based architects say the space hotel will be the most expensive in the galaxy, costing $4 million for a three-day stay.

During that time guests would see the sun rise 15 times a day and use Velcro suits to crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman. Company director Xavier Claramunt says the three-bedroom boutique hotel's joined-up pod structure, which makes it look like a model of molecules, was dictated by the fact that each pod room had to fit inside a rocket to be taken into space.

More on the topic here (http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/08/14/space.hotel.reut/index.html)

mrmcdonaldduck
November 14th, 2009, 04:42 AM
so, people would pay 4 million dollars to go into space, while 4 million dollars could probably make an african village set for a good 100 years or so.

Zero Beat
November 14th, 2009, 04:55 AM
Jason 'rich' people dont see it that way, they are happy thats all that matters to them. Id love to go into outer space, just to spend it in a room...

mrmcdonaldduck
November 14th, 2009, 05:06 AM
i would love to go to space as well, just as an astronaut, not as a tourist. :D

JackOfClubs
November 14th, 2009, 08:38 AM
Damn, I only have 3.5 million on me at the moment :P

If I had $4 million to spare, and time, I would. But I have neither of those, so I won't be. Seems like a good idea though.

Sage
November 14th, 2009, 06:07 PM
so, people would pay 4 million dollars to go into space, while 4 million dollars could probably make an african village set for a good 100 years or so.

No it wouldn't, seeing as Africa is in debt like you would not imagine, and their governments are mostly unstable and corrupt. ^_^

Suicune
November 14th, 2009, 06:25 PM
Start saving your money kiddies.

ShatteredWings
November 14th, 2009, 08:59 PM
That's. Freaking cool.

Christheman
January 28th, 2012, 05:02 PM
Kinds ridiculous but cool

Commander Thor
January 28th, 2012, 05:17 PM
Kinds ridiculous but cool

This is from 2009.

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