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bycmseagle ( 1195671 ) writes:
I was surprised by the low amount. It seems like even transporting a person to the moon would cost an order of magnitude more than 250k, and that's before you even start talking about funding the construction of a habitat. Lo and behold:
Your deposit will be applied toward the final price of your reservation once the hotel is ready to accept guests. Final pricing has not yet been determined will likely exceed $10 million.
So, yeah. Not only are you reserving a spot in a "hotel" that isn't expected to exist for at least another 5 years, but the final amount you're asked to cough up could well be ~10-100x more. I guess to some individuals a few hundred thousand dollars is the equivalent to what I lose in the couch cushions, and it is refundable (assuming the company remains solvent), but is the sense of FOMO so bad that the mega rich are willing to toss it at a project so far from realization just for the chance at being first?
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bytiananmen tank man ( 979067 ) writes:
it worked for Elon and the Tesla Roadster.
byDrYak ( 748999 ) writes:
Irony about Elon aside, the big difference is that, by the time of the first Tesla Roadster,
there has been quite some development of EV [wikipedia.org], so bolting Li-Ion battery and an electrical motor using mostly low-cost off-the-shelf parts to a Lotus glider was completely realistic.
Currently the total experience operating hotels beyond Earth atmosphere is at best described as "limited".
And regarding Tesla Roadsters and Elon: yes, the second iteration is mostly a money extraction scheme.
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