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Barcelona Metropolitan
GALACTIC SUITE
(Spain)
SPACE HOTEL
A Barcelona architect and entrepreneur is planning to offer travellers a room with one hell of a view.
Thousands of years before the great explorers crossed the oceans, daring humans ventured from the shores of terra firma in fragile crafts, braving the whims of natural forces. Without these first voyagers those who tested the waters, so to speak the technology and capacity to cross great expanses would never have been developed. There would have been no Columbus, no Vasco de Gama, no Magellan. Most say that it is our destiny to explore, that there is some part of the human genome that compels a substantial portion of our species to climb the highest mountain, or go the greatest distance. In effect, we strive for or, at the very least, admire the superlative in ourselves. Now that the entire Earth’s surface has been visited by Homo Sapiens, with the exception of the deepest ocean trenches, any human who has inherited the explorer’s instinct must turn upward, toward the stars. Continue reading


















