From: niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid   
      
   On 2022-02-14 2:29, JF Mezei wrote:   
      
       [comments on Elon Musk's recent Starship update]   
      
      
   > His original luxury liner to mars is no[w] going to be a cramped   
   > spaceship on long flight ordeal.   
      
   Eventually I expect there will be first class, second class, and   
   "steerage" passages. These will probably be in different Starships,   
   because there is not room/mass enough to have, for example, different   
   classes of kitchens and dining facilities in the same ship, as is done   
   on ordinary ships for sea travel. And it could irritate the lower-class   
   passengers a lot if they were forbidden from mingling with the   
   upper-class passengers -- mingling can be forbidden on commercial   
   airliners, where people can be kept seated for a few hours, but hardly   
   during a non-stop passage lasting several months.   
      
   First-class, roomy Starship passages may be combined with and motivated   
   by very dense cargo that has plenty of mass but little volume, and that   
   cannot easily be divided into smaller pieces for separate transport.   
      
   And some gigadollar people may have their own private Starships with   
   gilded faucets... or maybe the multi-month one-way and even longer round   
   trips would too boring for them.   
      
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