Millions of people… On a planet of billions.
Wasn’t there a Matt Damon movie about that?
Disobey and it’s out the airlock for you…
Jeff: don’t worry I got this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1qfVXLQBygw&pp=ygUaamVmZiBiZXpvcyB3aWxsaWFtIHNoYXRuZXI%3D
Probably because that doesn’t pay for rent, gas, groceries, clothes, utilities, bills, or healthcare. Are you accepting “will live in space soon” as payment on your website, Jeff? No? Well fuck off then.
Has he been taking steroids?
you first, dickhead.
Wut.
Hey Jeff, being good at buying something for a dollar and selling it for two doesn’t mean you’re a genius. Salesmen shouldn’t be giving advice like that.
He would make breathable air a subscription based service and I’m not for it.
Everyone is missing the point, the extreme rich will be living in space as they continue to rape the earth of all its resources for their own sick pleasure.
In Space!!
where slavery laws don’t exist
hey now this dude wanted to go to space to escape capitalism, not to spread it. he’s infinitely better than this dickhead jeff bozo.
“Jeff bezos says” has the same level of legitimacy as people going “as a mother”. Yeah he’s rich but he’s also mind numbingly stupid. Why do I care about anything he has to say because none of it is reasonable logical or relevant.
Is rocket doesn’t even get above the karmen line and takes about six people at a time. How are millions of people even going to get into space with that kind of transport system?
Let’s at least hate accurately. Blue Origin is working on a ton of stuff, just super slowly. Their orbital rocket, New Glenn, should have its 2nd launch in a few weeks. They’re working on a space station, Orbital Reef, but I have no idea what the timeline is. They’re also allegedly working on an orbital crew capsule, but that has almost zero public info.
I know about all the stuff he’s working on but even if it all turns out to work the way he claims, it’s not going to be able to transport millions of people into space over the next few years.
If we take the next few years to mean a decade from now then maybe will be at a point where extremely rich billionaires can pay to spend a weekend space on orbital reef or something similar. But I can’t imagine will be at the point of millions of people being in space on a semi-permanent basis, not within a decade, maybe within 50 years depending on how SpaceX fair with starship, but that stretching the definition of soon a bit far.
Elon musk said that starship might be able to transport 100 people at a time, which is musk speak for 15 people. But let’s say it can transport 100 people at a time, it can get to the moon and back again within 6 days, and they have multiple ships so that they can launch pretty much continuously with one launch every 24 hours. That sounds far fetched but it is remotely reasonable so let’s go with it.
Assuming we were already at that level of capability to transport 1 million people to the moon with that method would take nearly 28 years to complete. So we’d be looking at 2048 as the date that 1 million people would be on the moon. But we don’t have that capability yet so there’s also however much lead time we would need to get to that point.
So even if we started now, as in today, it would be nearly the middle of the century before we achieved his goal, yeah that’s not Soon™
Agreed, but your original 2nd paragraph made it seem like Blue is only doing New Shepherd. If Bezos wants a million people in space during his lifetime, he needs to be full speed ahead, “build it and they will come”, on Orbital Reef modules, the rumored 7 seat New Glenn orbital capsule, lunar surface resource extraction and refinement… Massive investments in transportation, science, manufacturing, and tourism in cislunar space.
Instead, I’m guessing the progression will be more like:
- Today: 10 people in orbit (the regular crew for ISS + Tiangong)
- Record: 19 people in orbit (regular crew, second Soyuz, stranded Starliner crew, Dragon free flyer)
- 5 years prediction: Break 20 (some mix of station crew handovers, Tiangong expansion, US commercial station/module, Gaganyaan, Mangzhou, Orion, Starship)
- 10 years prediction: Break 50
Why the FUCK would I want to be living in space? Bitch, the food air water and gravity are HERE.
Because tech billionaires can charge money for all of that in space!
that’s the main reason they actually hope they can do it. it fucking bothers them so much that they can’t charge you for breathing.
But in space amazon can own them!
NGL I want off this planet.
There’s nowhere else to go.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
I like this planet, they can fuck off.
I want off this planet onto a different earth-like planet in another star system, but even the most delusional billionaire doesn’t think that we’ll have access to other systems anytime soon.
I guess this means he’s going to give all his Amazon employees a pay raise equivalent to his own salary so that everyone will be equally financially able to travel to space.
“I believe, in the next couple of decades, there will be millions of people living in space. That’s how fast this is going to accelerate,” he said.
Jeff Bezos has been saying this stuff for a while. It’s not clear whether he’s just hyping his rockets, but he seems genuinely delusional and detached from reality. I remember an interview in which he was beside himself with enthusiasm for the idea that humanity was going to spread billions of people throughout the whole solar system. To most of us it’s not clear why this is supposed to be a good thing, especially if these people will all be abused by mega corporations like Amazon. And it’s utterly impossible. Besides, most people would prefer to do anything at all to try to save Earth from the ravages of capitalists like Bezos. But of course these techbro assholes prefer to live in sci-fi fantasies than actually have to pay their workers and their taxes and clean up their pollution.
We should shoot his ass into space in the Apollo 13 capsule with all the manuals, and let him know that he has to safely navigate it around the moon and back to earth by himself, and if he does, we’ll let him live.
He’ll die within 2 days
i prefer him in a titan ICBM into space.
If he meant it, he would be pumping more resources into Blue Origin’s Orbital Reef space station concept instead of sitting around and waiting for NASA to fund it. Vast is planning to launch a little 4 person private space station next year. Blue should have been way ahead of them.
