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Is it really just a gigantic ball of burning gas? Does the gas replenish itself from some source as it burns?

Of course, they say it’s going to cost $4.4 million for a 3-night stay in outer space at the “Galactic” resort.  This price including an eight-week training course on a tropical island.

The Barcelona-based company (www.galacticsuite.com) plans to open The Galactic Suite Space Resort, the first hotel in space, says it is on target to accept its first paying guests by the year 2012, regardless of what critics are saying about the investment and time frame for the project.

Guests at the space hotel will be able to see the sun rise 15 times every day, travel around the world every 80 minutes, and can wear Velcro suits that allow them to crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman.

Read more of the story at MSNBC

I don’t know exactly what this guy is talking about, but ok.