Kids today may be able to take tourism trips to the Moon
https://gizmodo.com/when-will-regular-people-be-able-to-visit-the-moon-1847033131
Elon is going next year!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2021/05/10/elon-musks-spacex-is-launching-an-actual-dogecoin-mission-to-the-moon-in-2022/?sh=e27a10f79144
Also would you take a flight on Virgin Galactic if you won this contest?
https://www.omaze.com/
Six days in a space capsule to walk around the surface for an hour? No thanks.
shareThe space tourism industry is going to collapse big time, you can't get around basic science which requires an enormous expenditure of energy to just leave the atmosphere. No amount of wishful thinking will make a space elevator possible.
For the same reasons flying cars never happened, space tourism isn't going to happen. Flying cars (helicopters) are reserved for the richest people who can afford to spend money on all the excessive fuel wasted just to fly somewhere instead of drive.
I'm really not trying to push any buttons here but what do you base your assertion that space elevators aren't possible but at the same time seem to wonder why flying cars haven't happened?
shareSpace elevators work under the same concept that the batman vehicle claw works. That being batman shoots out a claw attached to a cord that helps him turn his vehicle around very quickly. The problem isn't the physics or the math, the problem is materials science explains that the cord will not hold up. A space elevator hides its problems under that same materials science issue, you need a cable that can remain in tension and support not only the entire length of the cable but also the force of constantly being flung around the earth at over 1000 mph.
Sure, we could use unobtainium and claim that in the future we'll go to pandora and get it to build our space elevator... but real world materials science keeps crushing this as a pipe dream.
I am not wondering why flying cars haven't happened... I know why, because the cost of flying is significantly more than the cost of driving such that only rich people can actually afford flying cars. We created the idea of a future that made no sense when people went about thinking we'd all be traveling by air; similarly how it makes no sense that space will ever be something that the common man would have access to.
The best parallel to space is the ocean, and how many people have ships capable of sailing from continent to continent?
No fucking way.
shareAbsolutely :)
"Take her to the moon for me, ok" - RIP Bing Bong
Absolutely!!!
shareI have a huge fear of heights. Imagine going 200k miles upwards.
I'd just have an anxiety overload & die