UniversalMomentum t1_ivqn7bx wrote
I don't think many ppl would want to. It's a neat idea, but being launched into space with anything like current tech and living in low G for any extended period of time sucks. Moon dust also clings to everything and space suits don't look fun.
Soo.. based on current tech and biological limits I'd say no chnace for moon tourism in just 100 years.
We need safer ways to get in and out of orbit and ideally far better artificial gravity.
The only space tourism I see as practical is a near earth cruise orbit, but not available to the masses and still very dangerous putting lots of ppl on one ship.
I think most people would be more interested in some high resolution VR experience that simulates the visuals well.
Potentially have brain to computer interfaces that could deliver really deep VR in 100 years.
I think at the rate we're going we're going to have the ability to copy the human brain into a machine before we have the propulsion and artificial gravity technology we need for Mass market space tourism.
AND THEN You will have a humanity that can really travel into space and survive all kinds of environment because they’re not tied to their squishy little biological body.
So I'm in a minority of current thinking where I say that we will have the ability to copy the human brain into a digital format long before we have the ability to travel easily through space and that ability to copy the human brain will become the primary mechanism that lets us explore space.
Think a lot of astrophysicists and other futurists really haven't fully considered that option seriously enough, but there's a lot more benefits in being able to copy a human brain into a machine than there is making complex space ships aka it solves a lot more problems and benefits the average human far more.
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