Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, is set to open the first hotel in Mars at $5 Million per night.
The Gateway Foundation’s ‘Voyager’ station is currently in development, with the goal being to provide rooms for up to 400 people. Its circular spinning frame should allow the structure to emulate an artificial gravity level similar to Mars – 40 per cent of the Earth’s own. The project is expected to be the first to create a more liveable, long term environment for humans in this way.
Voyager station will provide an assortment of cruise ship-like opportunities to eat, relax and work, including a health spa, cinemas, and bars. The hotel will have the capacity to surround the planet in just 90 minutes.
Its frame will also be large enough to fit twenty 65×40 foot pods which will act as marketable ‘villas’, as well as rented space for companies like NASA to work and live.
Concept art for the project depicts everyday images of the final design, featuring rounded bevelled windows, as well as a plethora of minimalist architecture.
Elon Musk has professed that his ultimate goal is to “make life multi-planetary”.
In late October 2001, Elon Musk went to Moscow to buy an intercontinental ballistic missile.” A great first sentence and the rest of the piece bounces along with similar energy, telling how Musk made himself an expert on space technology, hired the future head of Nasa, built rockets, and drew up a business plan for settling Mars; while dreaming of leaving the planet earth to live in space.
Elon Musk, is a billionaire entrepreneur who’s ideas on colonisation of planets, driverless cars, alternative energy sources, high-speed mass transportation through hyperloop, passenger rocket travel, and new ways of human-machine interface evoke a sense of awe, constantly pushing the boundaries of technology.
Musk has emerged as a leading innovator and the most daring entrepreneur of our time, experimenting with concepts that sometimes appear weird and funny. He dreams big, sets high benchmarks and factors in setbacks as part and parcel of the journey towards excellence in the chosen field. He is both the CEO and the foot soldier of his enterprises at the same time, leading the tech battle from the front.
New era in space exploration
Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, recently pulled off a remarkable feat of sending NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting the earth aboard its rocket and spacecraft, the first private enterprise to do so.
This mission marks a historic moment in space transportation and ends the monopoly of the government agencies in the sector. For the first time, a rocket and a spacecraft capsule entirely built by a private company were used to transport the NASA astronauts.
Face to face with future
The conversation with Musk is not for the faint-hearted. The ideas that he tosses around will make you feel dizzy with bewilderment.
If he is not talking about his plans to inhabit outer space, revolutionize high-speed transportation or reinventing automobile technology, he is probably holding forth on his ambitious project “NeuraLink” which involves implanting chips into human brains to create mind-computer interfaces.
SpaceX is working on the idea of building passenger rockets capable of traveling to any city in the world in less than an hour, a form of transport Musk calls “Earth-to-Earth.”
Musk, who is worth over US$ 219 billion, making him the richest in the world, has re-written the grammar of innovation and founded a string of companies to fuel his dream — from PayPal to Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity.
He has overcome a troubled childhood, dysfunctional family, and an abusive father and embarked on a journey of chasing improbable dreams, earning billions and making lot of enemies along the way. He has broken every convention, every tradition, and every standard that was there to be broken.
Musk’s other dreams include converting automobiles, households and as much industry as possible from fossil fuels to sustainable energy; implementing a new form of high-speed city-to-city transportation via vacuum tube; relieving traffic congestion with a honeycomb of underground tunnels fitted with electric skates for cars and commuters; creating a mind-computer interface to enhance human health and brainpower; and saving humanity from the future threat of an artificial intelligence that may one day run amok and decide eliminate human species.
Taken together, Musk’s dreams, if fructified, will connect the planet and the solar system in ways that will fundamentally change humanity’s relationship to two of the most important facets of its reality: distance and time.
Credit: The Federal & Euro News.
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