"Wanna take a ride?"
Posted on 05/29/2018 9:20:42 AM PDT by ETL
The recently anointed richest person in the world, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, says we need to colonize the moon — and time is of the essence. ..."
Speaking at the Space Development Conference in Los Angeles over the weekend, Mr Bezos made the argument that in order to protect Earth and allow the human species to continue growing, we need to move much of our industrial activity to the moon, or even asteroids.
The 54-year-old billionaire said moving heavy industry into solar-powered space outposts is the only way to ensure that our planet can cope with the rising demand for energy and the stresses of a growing population.
“We will have to leave this planet,” he said, according to Geek Wire.
“We’re going to leave it, and it’s going to make this planet better. We’ll come and go, and the people who want to stay, will stay.”
Mr. Bezos believes it will happen in our lifetime because the human race has little alternative.
“The alternative is stasis,” he said, adding that without space settlements, societies around the globe “will have to stop growing” due to environmental and other constraints.
“That’s not the future that I want for my grandchildren, or my grandchildren’s grandchildren.”
The US government has stated it wants to pursue sustainable outposts in space and the Trump administration has shown renewed interest in returning to the moon. The Amazon CEO expects US government funding to play a vital role in efforts to build habitats in space but said his rocket company, Blue Origin, would push on with its mission even if it doesn’t receive funding help from NASA.
“It won’t be done by one company” or by NASA, he said but by “thousands of companies working in concert over many decades”.
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In the early 20th century NYC was in a crisis. They had no clue what they were going to do in the soon coming future about all the horse dung generated on their streets.
Oddly, the problem fixed itself.
Imagine where we would be if there were no such thing as the pill, iud’s etc. And look at what LED lighting has done to energy use. My entire home, inside and out, is lit by the same watts that used to power a light bulb or two.
Mark me as one who has decided to stay....
Will there be next day free shipping?
Silly dreamer with too much money.
"Wanna take a ride?"
I don’t agree with bezos much on anything. But I’d love to see humanity on mars and the moon and beyond! And it will give us a second chance after the leftist commie Nazi types finish destroying society on earth
The question is, “Is Jeff Bezos proof of alien life?” Perhaps he knows of which he speaks.
LOL
Mars already has an amazon fulfillment center. It just needs amazon customers
Even if Oprah wins in 2020?
16 to s on earth only weighs 2.76 tons on the moon? That explains musk’s wanting to go there. Cheaper postage!
Only for Prime members.
Yep... If Oprah, or Hillary or something equally as disturbing wins... we’ll sell the suburb house and move full time to the ranch. It will be years before that part of the country is Oprahized. It is too far off the beaten path and there aren’t enough people there to attract the interest of the lefties. And I’m old enough to just need a few years :)
Do I still get free Amazon delivery with Prime?
Send me a postcard.
Wow, mail from the moon is faster than USPS.
He’s correct, but leaves out some important reasons.
First, there are limited resources here - limited in the economically-viable sense. I’m not so much worried about pollution, since higher technology tends to reduce this waste of resources. There are FAR greater resource in the Solar System, let alone in nearby star systems.
Second, I’m not real keen on the idea of being stuck on one (rather nice) ball of dust...when a single asteroid can bring down all of our civilization (if not literally destroy life on the planet if large enough). Granted, that is a low probability event in any of our lifetimes, but it is not a zero risk thing, and especially not over thousands of years or longer. It is a low probability, high impact event, and if we can reduce the risk to the human race by diversifying our living quarters (with emphasis on independent quarters that have no NEED - desire being a different thing - for supplies from Earth) to different places, and can make money and train large numbers of space workers, so much the better.
Third, I’m also not too keen on living on one ball of dust when there may be aggressive space-faring races out there. Let’s have multiple planets/asteroids, then multiple star systems, then hundreds of them - and we’ll be far safer as a species. Oh, and NO I haven’t ever seen any space aliens, nor do I believe that we’ve been visited by aliens, or any of that crap. But simple logic dictates that if life arose here, and there are 100 billion or so stars in this one galaxy alone, then there are likely other planets that also gave rise to life...and those creatures which rise to the top of their planet’s food chain and develop the technology to travel between stars are not to be trifled with, not at our current level of technology being stuck on one planet. We have to spread out, become FAR more numerous, and advance our technology by leaps and bounds if we are to hope to survive over the course of tens or hundreds of thousands of years, let alone millions of years. No, none of us will see that, but how short-sighted and selfish would it be of us to turn inward and deny space to our descendants?
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