Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says ‘millions of people’ will be living in space by 2045—and robots will commute on our behalf to the moon
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says ‘millions of people’ will be living in space by 2045—and robots will commute on our behalf to the moon | Fortune
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.
It took around 5 years to build a large Amazon hub near me which is just now opening but he thinks we'll somehow have millions of people living in space in 4x that time despite not having the capability to do even a miniscule fraction of that now. I think he's trying to be Elon Musk from 10 years ago and doing a terribly embarrassing job of it.
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.
I thought the only ones chronically ill while not on actual planets were a subset of the rock hoppers who stayed long-term on moon stations?
e: I mean the guy definitely thought the wrong people were the good guys, but I'll take twice as many seasons and try not to peer too hard into the sausage factory, thanks.
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.
We are living in space. On a giant spaceship.
That's what they said about the oceans!!! But look at me now, floating around on the waters, for no fucking reason.
More proof that the ultra wealthy don't exist in reality.
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
More proof that billionaires are completely detached from reality.
Man, I'm SO glad newspapers don't tell the whole world whenever I say something stupid. That would be really embarrassing.
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.
Let's send the billionaires first so they can show us!
First Katy Perry and all the Kardashians.
He must be high from all the money he's swimming in
with his plastic barbie wife too.
"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.
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.
I.
WANT.
MY.
FUCKING.
JETPACK.
“So 10,000 years ago, or whenever it was, somebody invented the plough, and we all got richer…. I’m talking about all of civilization, these tools increase our abundance, and that pattern will continue.”
Can't fucking help himself but think of how to get richer. He just came out and said it with his little unrelated example: "this is so we can get richer"... Who's "we"? They want you to think it could one day be you, but we know that's the opposite of what they think.
Must be so fucking hard to imagine a technological advance that doesn't make you richer as priority #1, but helps people instead.
Lead by example, Jeff.
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
Ketamine is a great drug.
But Musk's disciples believe we will one day be walking around on planets and moons with no air, and temperatures 100x more extreme than parts of earth no one can live in.
These are simple people, the common clay of the new space...
...you know, morons.
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....
Yea, maybe they should show we can grow food and mone water ice on a large enough scale first. But, millions even in 50 years seems unlikley given the pace things have gone.
This is your brain on sycophancy.
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.
Communication with these parasites is one-directional. They spew garbage and we get rained on.
lmao you would think somebody who stole a bunch of surplus value from the world would understand that getting millions of people and the infrastructure to support them to the moon in the next 20 years would bankrupt the governments he depends on to protect him from us.
He's so detached from reality that he thinks he can do it all by himself.
Putting a million people in space would require ten of thousand of launches if they were Boeing 737s carrying the people.
Housing a million people in space would require technology that won't exist in 20 years let alone in time to have it built in 20 years.
This kind of shit is just so fucking stupid.
It takes them 2 years to build an Amazon warehouse in fucking Michigan. We're supposed to believe they're going to build space stations to support a million people in 20 years?
Who is this stupid? Who believes this shit?
Honestly it will be lucky if we have anyone permanently inhabiting the moon in 20 years. The Artemis program is our best bet and frankly that's a pipe dream.
Billionaires get all the best drugs
If that guys in charge, I would assume those millions are being forced to work in 'Mars in Total Recall' conditions. Basically slave labor in abhorrent conditions with food/air being withheld when you don't slave away hard enough.
Start the reactor, Quaid!
When you shit money like diarrhea, saying stupid shit becomes common place.
That's 20 years and utterly ridiculous
How has such an idiot talker been able to accumulate such indecent amount of resources?
Highly doubt many will live there, if anything it will have a couple of research stations like Anctartica .
Jeffy watches too much science fiction where at some point in history, massive rockets to space became free and people stopped breathing oxygen.
LOL that's not how capitalism works and let's face it: countries aren't interested in space programs anymore
Jeff Bezos says a lot of things
He looks absolutely ridiculous with the cowboy hat.
All hat, no cattle.
Yay Elysium!!!! I ALWAYS wanted that movie to be the dystopia we ended up with! It seemed TOO realistic.
Except the med beds will just be normal health care.
Elysium had it backwards. The billionaires don't want to live in space leaving the workers to live in poverty on the surface. The billionaires want the workers to run space factories while they turn the earth into a big hunting reserve.
Other than the whole "factories being in space" thing I could see where they might enjoy that.
But given the environment in 2045, I'm guessing it's going to be a lot closer to Elysium than Planet Hunt
Doubt
Millions millionaires will be living in space.
REMEMBER even star trek went through a ww3 with 600mil dead to finally get into space.
Uh oh, did he get on the ketamine wagon too
on the ped/roids
Oh is he going to build a space elevator or something?
Even if we had cheap safe reliable rocket launchers (Which I think SpaceX is fairly adequately demonstrated that we do not have) millions of people wouldn't be living on the moon in 20 years. It took decades after the invention of the jetliner before millions of people were doing transatlantic flights, and as unpleasant as Florida can be, it's a lot more survivable than the moon (probably).
These idiots say so much crap, why are we reporting on it?
I don't think we have the capacity to launch a million people into orbit in 20 years, let alone all the stuff they need. I mean, 1 million people weigh about 150 million pounds, and that's just meat and bones. .
Why would robots even need to commute why wouldn't they just be there ready to wake up and go? Sorry, are our sex robots going to work for us too? Hmm, I think it would be two different bots.
It depends on the type of work and how comfortable you are with sloppy seconds
Look at me say the exact same thing and be thrown out the pub
Has JetBlue ever had an orbital flight? Or was he planning to use SpaceTwitter?
I don't care if any people live in space in 20 years but I would like to launch Bezos, Musk and a few others there.
Did he join scientology already?
I ain’t going…
And what the heck are people going to do in space? How will they even get their Amazon packages?
Hooba-dooba-dooba!
Who is going to live in space to do all menial shit they won't do themselves? Long list of applicants for space plumbers, janitors, trash collectors?
I suppose it would work like working on an oil rig, only with much more hazard pay I would hope. I could see people signing up for a few shifts to make some money. Not me I like grass.
Just like most of the other capitalist structures: Make the alternative seem worse.
Must be fun being able to say crazy shit and have news articles written about it.
Right? Anyone else his age says that shit people say Okay Grandpa, let's get you off to bed.
Musk does about the same. It seems you just need to be a billionaire
You can too!
Just gotta put it in a manifesto and do something horrible.
Im going to ask an LLM to write me a manifesto and pick a target.