What's a sci-fi thing you feel is achievable with our current level of technology that you'd love to see become a thing?
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According to this article, a tourist space flight is/will cost $450,000. That's just to break earth's atmosphere. Tack on the additional cost of several days of space flight to reach and return from the moon, plus breaking the Moon's gravity to return, plus the cost of building, maintaining, and staffing a moon base. Costs would be unbelievably prohibitive.
Vegas, meanwhile, is built on draining gambling-addicted grandmas' pension funds. You can't target that demo on the moon.
You haven't been to vegas lately. Grandma is not the target. Rich people who want to flaunt it is. Sounds like a match made in... heaven. Lol.
And since the gap between the haves and have nots is growing, it a perfect way for the haves to separate themsleves.
Think back to the first commercial airliners. It was only for the rich. And it made a lot of money that way. -
There is also the cost.
The American program to go to the Moon cost several percentage points of American GDP over several years to get there. The USA could have physically had a moon base up there, but it would have been wildly expensive.
I will agree there. But the mining and manufacturing potential is rather insane. We could make money back rather quickly.