The first hotel outside Earth's atmosphere plans to open its doors by the end of the decade. The OrbitalAssemblyCorporation (OAC) aims to begin construction on the Voyager Station in 2025, with the goal of opening the hotel to guests in 2027. The hotel has been designed as a large wheel. According to reports, the motion of the wheel will be used to create gravity at the edges of the circular hotel, where guest rooms will be located. In the center of the hotel, gravity will be much lower.
The OAC hopes to offer most of the amenities found on a luxury cruise liner, but from Earth'sorbit. The hotel will be able to accommodate up to400 people at a time. However, it won’t be convenientto access as tourists will be required to undergo some training before they take off. Planners alsoexpect that a three-night stay will cost guests aboutUS$5 million. So, if you really want to visit, you'dbetter start saving now.
The Food and Drug Administration in Taiwan announced that regulations regarding products labeled as chocolate will be revised starting January 1, 2022. The new regulations will apply to chocolate products that contain fillings5 in particular. Until now, many products labeled “chocolate” consisted of very little genuine cocoa. Under the new regulations, products with a minimal amount of real cocoa will not be permitted to include “chocolate” on the label.
The new “Regulations on the Name and Labeling of Chocolate” require that a product’s total ingredients be at least 25% chocolate and words such as “filling” or “processing” be clearly labeled. Further, vegetable oil content cannot exceed 5% of a product’s total weight. The revisions were made as the original standards set in 2016 were not comprehensive. Starting in 2022, many of the products currently labeled “chocolate” will likely be rebranded as “cocoa-flavored” or something similar.
