In Part 3, I came to the conclusion that once humans decide to stay on the Moon or in orbit, they will be as self-sufficient as possible. So the question is, "why will humans go
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And how soon after the first fractional gravity sleeping areas will they have the first brothel? I mean sleeping in that environment brings back interesting stories.. but the half-a-million-mile high club with be the next step in human evolution. *grin*
I doubt they'll have big neon signs advertising "get laid here" any time soon, but I imagine that for the right price one will be able to get laid in even the first hotels.
Indeed. The clientele in the earliest zero-gee hotels will be billionaires. They'd have the kind of money for which many women who were not normally prostitutes would consider sex-for-pay.
The first celebrity who comes down from one and tell space-sick stories on a talk show will drive a move for spun stations, a la Von Braun. Actually, the fractional gravity of the sleeping / eating areas will be an additional selling point.
The more so because the possibility of simulating gravity through rotation would be well known to the sort of people who could afford the trip and be interested in making it. We'd have spun-gravity stations now if the major space agencies didn't persist in looking at space as a zone for pure science only instead of a place to colonize.
I think we will have some space hotels but I'm still not convinced there will be a simple evolution from space hotels to colonization for the same reasons that while there are tourists in the Gobi Desert and Antartica and Everest - there aren't all that many of them and they're building on the back of an infrastructure that existed, in some cases for centuries before tourists got in on the act
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The more so because the possibility of simulating gravity through rotation would be well known to the sort of people who could afford the trip and be interested in making it. We'd have spun-gravity stations now if the major space agencies didn't persist in looking at space as a zone for pure science only instead of a place to colonize.
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