Whether big or small. We all have that one thing from Scifi we wished were real. I’d love to see a cool underground city with like a SkyDome or a space hotel for instance.

  • blarghly@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    According to this article, a tourist space flight is/will cost $450,000. That’s just to break earth’s atmosphere. Tack on the additional cost of several days of space flight to reach and return from the moon, plus breaking the Moon’s gravity to return, plus the cost of building, maintaining, and staffing a moon base. Costs would be unbelievably prohibitive.

    Vegas, meanwhile, is built on draining gambling-addicted grandmas’ pension funds. You can’t target that demo on the moon.

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      9 days ago

      You haven’t been to vegas lately. Grandma is not the target. Rich people who want to flaunt it is. Sounds like a match made in… heaven. Lol.
      And since the gap between the haves and have nots is growing, it a perfect way for the haves to separate themsleves. Think back to the first commercial airliners. It was only for the rich. And it made a lot of money that way.