Richard Branson speaks of the glory of space tourism but put yourself into it. Once you have seen the great view and have experienced some groovy weightless sex, you're facing the fact you're in a really uncomfortable super-expensive hotel. The other possibility is for thrill flights but how many times does anyone need to ride a super-expensive roller coaster. There doesn't seem too much realism in this or at least nothing which would last very long.
Bollocks on that.
We don't believe people are going to space unless it's for a reason and most likely that reason is to build something. A whole lot of that building will get robotic but not likely all of it so we figure humans will be up there to work just as they are now only many more of them.
What we want them building most of all is a starship but it's too sci fi to dream of it when they don't even have a motor for it yet. Because of the length of the anticipated journey, the standard has been figuring a starship must carry thousands of people so the construction project to build such a ship would be immense.
(Ed: you get off on immense things!)
Sure, I do. Humans are capable of immense things but so many have let themselves be conditioned to the idea they're not possible now. That's absolute bloody rubbish. There were a bunch of camel-herding goombahs wandering around the desert and one said, "Hey, I want to build a gigantic fucking pyramid."
It's mostly money which gets humans to do anything or some equivalent form of reward or why should we bother. Someone needs to find a way to make the big bucks from being in space. They have tried making ultra-pure medicine and it seemed there was some success with doing it but unknown what commercial value that might have. Mostly the money just now seems to come from satellites looking back at Earth, beaming content back, or similar. There doesn't seem to be so much which is finding an implicit value in being in space beyond the view.
There seems to be some possible value in an orbiting factory when it makes really poisonous stuff. Batteries and electronics often have hideous elements in them. It's got to be a huge benefit to the producer when any poisonous byproducts can be blown out an airlock without fretting those pesky EPA people. Your import / export costs will be a tad higher but maybe the saving would offset that from working in an environment where you can't poison the air.
It seems there's some sort of angle which will play out of that commercial aspect of space but the tourism just isn't doing it.
Maybe there's the ...
The Sub-Orbital Jaunt
This one is definitely in the thrill ride category and there's not much to say for it beyond that. The only value seems as a merit badge for rich people.
The One-Week Space Vacation
Are you daft? What the hell will you do in space for a week? We will take wild guesses and assume shopping and working on your golf are out.
The Extended Package
In staying for a longer period, presumably you're going to perform some function so now we have the situation in which you paid the big bucks to go to space and you're working for someone else. Clever.
Bah! It's rubbish.
Bollocks on that.
We don't believe people are going to space unless it's for a reason and most likely that reason is to build something. A whole lot of that building will get robotic but not likely all of it so we figure humans will be up there to work just as they are now only many more of them.
What we want them building most of all is a starship but it's too sci fi to dream of it when they don't even have a motor for it yet. Because of the length of the anticipated journey, the standard has been figuring a starship must carry thousands of people so the construction project to build such a ship would be immense.
(Ed: you get off on immense things!)
Sure, I do. Humans are capable of immense things but so many have let themselves be conditioned to the idea they're not possible now. That's absolute bloody rubbish. There were a bunch of camel-herding goombahs wandering around the desert and one said, "Hey, I want to build a gigantic fucking pyramid."
It's mostly money which gets humans to do anything or some equivalent form of reward or why should we bother. Someone needs to find a way to make the big bucks from being in space. They have tried making ultra-pure medicine and it seemed there was some success with doing it but unknown what commercial value that might have. Mostly the money just now seems to come from satellites looking back at Earth, beaming content back, or similar. There doesn't seem to be so much which is finding an implicit value in being in space beyond the view.
There seems to be some possible value in an orbiting factory when it makes really poisonous stuff. Batteries and electronics often have hideous elements in them. It's got to be a huge benefit to the producer when any poisonous byproducts can be blown out an airlock without fretting those pesky EPA people. Your import / export costs will be a tad higher but maybe the saving would offset that from working in an environment where you can't poison the air.
It seems there's some sort of angle which will play out of that commercial aspect of space but the tourism just isn't doing it.
Maybe there's the ...
The Sub-Orbital Jaunt
This one is definitely in the thrill ride category and there's not much to say for it beyond that. The only value seems as a merit badge for rich people.
The One-Week Space Vacation
Are you daft? What the hell will you do in space for a week? We will take wild guesses and assume shopping and working on your golf are out.
The Extended Package
In staying for a longer period, presumably you're going to perform some function so now we have the situation in which you paid the big bucks to go to space and you're working for someone else. Clever.
Bah! It's rubbish.
2 comments:
Sub orbital is already a decent business with companieslike Soace Adventures or Vomit Comet. Not for the rich since Vomit Comit is about $5Gs .
True orbit space has I believe thousands who have paid for the trips already and yes for the rich as I think Brason is charging $200Gs plus.
So yes space tourism will surely thrive as they start adding space walks etc as they start getting experience at it.
One of the top guys with build a useable habitat on the during these trips so the transportation costs of the materials are borne by the tourists.
Who knows maybe before I croak in tbe next couple of years it will be viable
I know they've been selling rides or at least options on them for quite a while for suborbital but I'm not convinced this has any depth. It's still going to be a difficult and arduous ride even with it softened for tourism so I'm really not convinced this is such a strong angle or that it will last past early adventurers.
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