One pioneer is building humanity's road to space. Planet Ocean offers an extraordinary laboratory for that journey, right here in Inner Space.
Blue Origin is pursuing a long-term vision of humanity living and working beyond Earth.
Planet Ocean Underwater Hotels is pioneering another frontier much closer to home — approximately 30 feet beneath the sea.
We invite Blue Origin to explore how Planet Ocean's one-atmosphere underwater environment could support research, technology development, human-factors studies, robotics, tourism infrastructure, and other work relevant to living and working in environments where humans cannot naturally survive.
Planet Ocean Underwater Hotels, LLC offers Blue Origin access to Planet Ocean's INNER SPACE environment for qualified research, testing, training, educational and technology-development initiatives. This is an invitation to collaborate.
The ocean provides an extraordinary Earth-based environment for studying human behavior, equipment reliability, remote operations, robotics, communications and life inside an isolated habitat.
Space is extraordinarily difficult and expensive to reach. Inner Space is here.
Planet Ocean is being developed as a movable marine hospitality platform featuring 26 underwater guestrooms approximately 30 feet beneath the sea. Guests live comfortably at approximately normal atmospheric pressure while surrounded by an environment in which humans cannot naturally survive. That creates an intriguing parallel with future space habitation.
The environments are obviously different. The engineering requirements are different. The pressures are different. But many of the questions surrounding human habitation remain relevant:
Inner Space provides another place to ask those questions.
Blue Origin is building a road to space with a long-term vision of millions of people living and working beyond Earth. Planet Ocean shares an important part of that spirit.
Before humanity can live routinely in environments beyond Earth, we must continue learning how humans, machines and complex systems operate inside environments where survival depends upon technology. Our oceans provide one of Earth's greatest natural laboratories.
Planet Ocean extends this invitation to Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin:
Robotics will be essential wherever humans venture into environments that are difficult, dangerous or inaccessible. That applies to space. It also applies beneath the ocean. Planet Ocean can potentially provide opportunities for testing and demonstrating robotic systems associated with:
The purpose is not to claim that an underwater environment duplicates space. It does not. The opportunity is to provide another demanding real-world environment in which advanced systems can be exercised and studied.
Technology alone will not determine humanity's future beyond Earth. Long-duration habitation raises questions involving isolation, confinement, teamwork, communications, sleep, environmental awareness and psychological adaptation.
Planet Ocean introduces ordinary people into an environment dramatically different from everyday life while maintaining comfortable atmospheric conditions. Guests can look through their windows and see an environment they cannot enter without specialized equipment. That experience creates a powerful psychological separation from ordinary life on land.
For researchers interested in human adaptation to unusual habitats, that difference may create valuable opportunities for observation and study.
The current Planet Ocean design features 26 underwater guestrooms approximately 30 feet beneath the sea. The ocean becomes the view. Marine life becomes the passing traffic. Guests sleep inside a controlled environment while an entirely different world exists immediately outside their windows.
Planet Ocean's objective is to make this experience available not merely to professional divers or scientists, but ultimately to ordinary people. That makes INNER SPACE potentially useful not only for research but also for public education.
Imagine students watching astronauts, engineers, marine scientists and robotics experts conducting demonstrations from beneath the ocean. Imagine broadcasts connecting an underwater habitat with a space mission. Imagine children simultaneously learning about the two greatest frontiers accessible to humanity. Below us and above us.
Blue Origin brings unique strengths to this opportunity. Planet Ocean's invitation stands open.
Blue Origin may see applications involving future space habitation, research, commercial destinations, robotics or human factors. Universities and scientific organizations may identify possibilities no one has considered yet. That is precisely the point.
Planet Ocean provides the environment. The pioneers determine what questions to ask inside it.
Planet Ocean has been developed around a zero-discharge operating philosophy and a broader mission involving coral reef restoration and marine stewardship. That creates another important connection between Inner Space and Outer Space.
The relationship can work in both directions. Outer Space technology can help Inner Space. Inner Space experience can help Outer Space. And both can help Earth.
You are building a road toward millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. Planet Ocean invites you beneath it.
This is not an endorsement arrangement. It is not a claim of an existing partnership with Blue Origin. It is an open invitation from Planet Ocean Underwater Hotels, LLC to Blue Origin to explore collaboration, research, technology development, and co-licensing within INNER SPACE.
Planet Ocean Underwater Hotels, LLC is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or submitting this invitation on behalf of Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, or Amazon.
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