<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 7:41 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">in the meantime, we could use the SLS as a really high-priced<br>
hotel. Musk can haul tourists up there to it once the boosters are<br>
sufficiently advanced to take the occupant controls away.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Uh...what?</div><div><br></div><div>SLS is a rocket, not a location in orbit. The only way it would work as a hotel is if you repurpose its stages on the ground - which wouldn't leave much room for guests, and be a major environmental challenge (read: guaranteed to lose lots of money, possibly more than continuing to try to build SLS as a rocket).</div></div></div>