Robots commuting to the moon.
Robots.
Commuting.
To the moon.
This is the most extreme case of affluenza I’ve ever seen. Let’s pray that it’s terminal.
Why would the robots commute
Must be fun being able to say crazy shit and have news articles written about it.
You can too!
Just gotta put it in a manifesto and do something horrible.
Lead by example, Jeff.
The largest spaceship today is the falcon heavy with a payload of just over 140k lbs. To make the math easy let’s say the falcon can lift 1000 people into space at a time.
If “millions of people” means 2 million people then we would need to launch 1000 people into space twice per week for 20 years. So 8 fully loaded falcon heavys per month for 240 months straight.
So… No. We will not have millions of people in space any time soon.
He realizes that’s only 20 years from now, right?
The infrastructure to support millions would have to already have begun construction like a could decades ago already for that to be remotely plausible.
It takes like 3+ years just to make a 6 episode tv show about space these days…
Lol, my dude thinks we’re going to have millions of people in space before California finishes their high speed rail project, the project that was started 10 years ago…
You give a guy billions of dollars because he figured out how to put Barnes and Noble out of business and he suddenly thinks he’s a genius at everything.
To give the devil his due, Bezos’s business strategy to grow Amazon was well thought out and well-executed. It also involved exploiting the shit out of his warehouse workers and plenty of sleaze, but Bezos actually knew what he was doing.
Bullshit like this announcement makes me think he’s run out of ideas, though.
The point being that him being good at worker exploitation, and getting extremely lucky with his heavy use of massively leveraging his business for decades doesn’t make him good at rocket science or predicting the feasibility of putting large populations in space.
Especially since, Blue Origin, his rocket company, started 25 years ago and only managed to make a rocket that brings 6 people up to the very edge of space without actually going into it for a couple minutes before coming back down, in that time.
Nope
Not happening, and not even close.
We still don’t have a first moon base, and no idea how to even build one that’ll last.
First you’ll need a proof of concept base, it’ll take you a good decade to get that done
Then, millions? Any idea how many tickets that is?
The richer, the dumber
And on top of all this does he think we just send astronauts up to space to live in the ISS for extended periods of time all willy nilly? Or hell just sending people to the moon, that was just “ok, you’re going to to the moon tomorrow, pack your bags” no. It takes months if not years of training to get someone used to living in zero g for extended periods of time. Us silly meatbags need something called gravity to live. You can’t just shoot someone out into space and say “have at it”. So whose going to train these millions of people? There’s no artificial gravity spinny things on ships to do that. there’s hardly any on the moon.
And then what if these people want to go back to Earth for a visit? it wouldn’t work. Look at Astronauts who have been on the ISS for an extended period of time when they come back. They can’t walk, they look like they’re going to pass out. So everytime these millions of people decide to return for a visit they also have to spend time getting help to get used to being on Earth again? no way, that’s not happening. You would literally have to set up some sort of hospitals specifically for this and then train and hire a massive amount of people who deal only with getting people used to dealing with gravity again. 2045? be real jeffy boy.
I mean again the people who are floating around in space right now are specifically selected and are in peak physical condition. The ONLY way it would maybe work is if we managed to develop a form of artifical gravity and right now that’s science fiction. OR you set up a colony on Mars and right now that’s a one way trip. and I’ve seen/read/played a lot of media where one way mars colony trips never work out well in the long run.
Plus there’s a massive Dragon on Mars…
when will we just tell these people to shut the fuck up and that we don’t care what they think? I’ve never heard a tech billionaire say anything remotely smart for decades now.
LOL that’s not how capitalism works and let’s face it: countries aren’t interested in space programs anymore
I was told we’d have personal jetpacks by the year 2000, yet all we got was the y2k bug and shitty cars. So I will take what Daft Bozos says with a pinch of salt and also take this time to call him a cunt.
Bozos, you’re a CUNT.
More proof that the ultra wealthy don’t exist in reality.
We don’t need to live in space. Space is not naturally habitable by humans. We just need to stop fucking up the one planet that is.
“I don’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now,” the Amazon and Blue Origin founder said”
I went into this article expecting the space thing to be the most unhinged thing Bezos said. But nope, it was the above quote. Insane wealth is a helluva drug.
Let’s send the billionaires first so they can show us!
That’s 20 years and utterly ridiculous
I always felt like when Amazon acquired The Expanse that it was likely Bezo’s fantasy to have an underclass of chronically ill, resource-starved people in space - to serve his interests and make him richer.
Glad to know I wasn’t off-base.
