Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/12/27/russia-planning-to-build-bouti.html
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Finally we’ll have an answer to the question of whether the costs of launching something out of the gravity well will moderate the oligarchical bent toward “luxury” design like this:
or this (if the Americans put up their own module before 2020):
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Never read “In Praise of Shadows”, that guy.
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Sweet! They could call it the Trump Stratosphere.
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If I get to choose which lump of tacky goldish-colored crap from that (second) picture that I get to launch into space, I would actually put up quite a sum… 
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Bonus: Trump stays attached to " lump of tacky goldish-colored crap".
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I think I obfuscated my regicidal tendencies under one too many layers of internet “cleverness”…in my post, he is the goldish lump of crap…
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The world of 1930s science fiction is officially turned upside down.
We’ve synced up. Good.
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No amount of money will ever compensate for a total lack of good taste. No amount of gold plating will ever make a turd anything other than ####.
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With apologies to Yakov Smirnoff:
In Trump Hotel, golden toilet; in Soviet Russia hotel, golden shower!
In space, no one hear you scream; in Soviet Russia…
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