Sunday, August 12, 2007

Space the next Frontier, or Place for a Hotel

please read first
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070810/ts_nm/space_hotel_dc;_ylt=AhZ3hkk91MLtCA2TovPw.OsDW7oF

So I have a couple of questions…..
First of all, who the hell wants to pay four million dollars, to “use Velcro suits to crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman.”? You can do that for about one hundred bucks if you rent one of those giant, Velcro, carny blow-up things. Secondly, they haven’t figured out the bathroom situation. How do they not know what to do? I’m pretty sure astronauts have bowel movements from time to time. I’m guessing NASA and or the Russians know a thing or two about letting out a couple of space nuggets. Why aren’t these people asking them about space toilets? (Fun fact: Russian Yuri Gagarin celebrated as the first human in space and the first to orbit the Earth is also believed to hold the prestigious honor of being the first human to poop in space. These actions seem to go hand in hand.)
Anotherly, they have calculated that just 40,000 people are rich enough to go on this space vacation. Is this bothering anyone else? 40,000 people have so much money that they can merely spend four million dollars on a three day vacation, staying at a place with Velcro walls and horrible pluming none the less. To help you better understanding of how much 4 million dollars is, if you were to ever guess four million dollars to win a vacation on The Price is Right you would be over………by a lot. And to help you understand just how short three days is, to a person born in a leap year that is 116 years old, three days is merely .00000708% of the days they have lived.
This line is probably the most frightening of all, “Galactic Suite said the price included not only three nights in space. Guests also get eight weeks of intensive training at a James Bond-style space camp on a tropical island.” First, after the phrase “not only a three night’s stay, they also get” one would assume, and hope, that the next words are a free continental breakfast, or fifty dollars of space money to spend at the spa, which has floating drops of water that function as showers. But if you sign up for this trip you have to work, apparently secret agent style. Just in case one of these rich people also happens to be an evil genius. This just sounds like a bond film, Space Hotel Royale. Though rich people in space provides us with what could be the best reality TV show in history. The Surreal Life in Space, Survivor: The Asteroid Belt, The Simple Life: Astronauts. I hope Paris is one of those 40,000. Oh wouldn’t we all love to see that. Now that would be news. Screw Lance Bass in space I want Paris in orbit. Can you just see all the paparazzi with their telescopes? Oh it would be spectacular, no more Paris. No, she wouldn’t do it; she would be going to a rival hotel.
The next line is my favorite. "There is fear associated with going into space," said Claramunt. "That's why the shuttle rocket will remain fixed to the space hotel for the duration of the guests' stay, so they know they can get home again." Are you kidding? Just having the shuttle attached to the freaking space hotel is supposed to make everyone feel better. This is what first comes to mind when I am tearing myself from the walls of the space hotel, “We could lose our oxygen supply at any moment, there is a large possibility and evil genius is on board, this hotel floating in space most likely wasn’t built properly since the people in charge didn’t know how to install a bathroom nor had sense enough to ask NASA for help, and on top of all of that the only experience I have closely resembling what to do in space is a two month training course on a tropical island. Oh why didn’t I just stay on the tropical island? Hell, I could have just stayed on one of MY islands. Oh god, where did the shuttle pilot go?”
And it is nice to see that the director of the hotel loves Earth so much that he is taking the right steps when it comes to pollution from the rocket being sent back and forth every three days…..wait, never mind “Galaxy Suite have no plans so far to offset the pollution implications of sending a rocket to carry just six guests at a time into space.” "I'm hopeful that the impact of seeing the earth from a distance will stimulate the guests' urge to value and protect our planet." Says Claramunt. I'm just going to assume Al Gore isn't invited to the hotel. Seriously what is the guy going to say to his guests? “Hey, everyone look at how beautiful our planet is. Would have been nice to see it last longer, since the rocket did just completely destroy the O-zone. But hey, we can crap in space!”

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