Posted on 09/22/2021 12:03:42 PM PDT by algore
Renderings have been released of an eye-opening Las Vegas resort that takes the form of a giant moon. Its name? 'Moon', naturally.
According to the Canadian entrepreneurs behind it, it would cost £3.6billion ($5billion) to build and, with a height of 224 metres (735ft), would become the joint-second-tallest building in Sin City with the JW Marriott, which is currently the second-loftiest structure behind the 350m- (1,149ft) tall Strat Observation Tower.
The celestial retreat – which would be the world's largest sphere - features 4,000 hotel rooms, a 'crater café', a spa, a casino, a lagoon and guests seeking a space-age adventure will be able to take a moon shuttle to a 'lunar colony'.
Designed to replicate the surface of the moon, the 'active lunar colony' is the unique selling point for the ambitious resort.
To access the colony, which would be in the upper half of the sphere, guests would head to shuttle stations, to waiting moon shuttles. Designed like cars on a roller coaster ride, the shuttles, it's explained, will snake around the exterior of the hotel suites as they ferry guests upwards.
Once there, guests will spend 90 minutes exploring the 10-acre (4-hectare) space, whizzing over craters in a 'moon buggy'. The colony promises to 'precisely mimic those [lunar colonies] now under serious active planning by Nasa, ESA and many others'. Tickets would cost £361 ($500) a pop.
'Without question, when guests venture onto the lunar surface, for the first time in their lives, they will believe they are on the Moon,' explains Michael Henderson, who founded Moon World Resorts (MWR) with his business partner Sandra Matthews.
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A giant version of the village Rover without the flex.
Best comic ever! Two astronauts having landed on the moon and they’re looking over a body. Rather dumbfounded of who it could be, one leans over then says to the other, “Why, I think it’s Alice Kramden!”
One of the best looking ships of sci-fi and almost sort long distance Hail Mary possible at least in looks.
Function is another thing.
The guests can go moon bathing by the swimming pool at night.
I’ll take the orange space suit and chest pack over the Rudi Gernich bell bottoms.
Don’t they have a cheesy amusement park on the moon?
That was my first thought. Las Vegas’s location really doesn’t make much sense for a large population.
Heh. They talk about maintaining a colony on the moon or Mars. It’s a big enough challenge maintaining Las Vegas!
Barbara Bain is still around.
Not to close to Uranus I hope.
Vegas already has a pyramid and is getting a sphere. Add in a cylinder and a cone, and they’re starting a geometry collection.
If I had a penny for every ‘proposed’ building, it would be my secretary that would be typing this while I wile away my time with my harem!
Haven’t been to Vegas in a few years but I’d go back to check this out (after it’s built)
Some of those casinos are pretty impressive
To the Moon, Alice!
And they wonder why Lake Mead is drying up. Did you ever calculate the water it took to build Las Vegas… all that concrete? How many toilet flushes on any given day?
Makes me wonder what being drunk in 0 gravity would be like. Guess you wouldn’t have to worry about falling down.
Are there scientists who now know how to make/create the water that Vegas is certainly going to need for all the people there?
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