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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I bet you could find parts for an Apollo ,cheap
More elite CGI.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/27/nokia-vodafone-4g-moon/
Here is another waste of money like all their worthless phony ideas.
How many will he kill like Branson?
They do believe that they are gods. Their sense of self makes Rockefeller, Vanderbilt Carnegie, and Morgan look like the guy who ran the local smith. And in truth they have burrowed their way into the everyday lives and thoughts of more Americans than those Captains of Industry, and including Hearst and Pulitzer and McCormick could have in their dreams bever imagined.
Paging Elon Musk. Elon Musk, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
I do not have a lot of money but a great relationship with God.
Just think the guy that just died in the wheel chair, the genius, God has his work cut out with him!
Elon, Jeff Bezos, will have so much to learn when they get to heaven. Freepers We Are There Already!!
**A display of specialized skill does not signify possession of spiritual capacity. Cleverness is not a substitute for true character.** (example)
Good news: 16 tons on earth is only 2.67 tons on the moon. :-)
The white population on earth is not growing. It is people of the Muslim cult and the Hispanics that are growing.
But if it was suggested that the races with excess populations being sent to the moon it would be racis.
Between Venus and Mars, I think Mars would be our best shot.
Our planet was doomed.
Doomed?
Yes, so everybody said, let’s pack the whole population into giant spaceships and settle on another planet.
A less doomed one?
Precisely. So it was decided to build three gigantic ships. Three gigantic Arks in space. The idea was that into the first ship would go all the brilliant leaders, scientists, the great artists, you know, all the achievers. Into the third ship would go all the people who do the actual work, who make things and do things. Then into the B ship — that’s us — would go everyone else, the middlemen. Of course, we were sent off first.
What was wrong with your planet?
It was doomed. Apparently it was going to blow up or crash into the sun or something.
That’s not what I was told.
My commander swore that the entire planet was about to be eaten by a mutant star goat.
Really?
Yes. He said how lucky I was to be going off in the first ship.
But they made sure they sent all you lot off first, anyway.
Oh, yes! And everyone said — very nice I thought — how important for morale to feel that they were arriving on another planet where you could get a good haircut and where the phones were clean.
Yes. I can see that’d be very important.
Can you?
Sh!
And the rest of the ships followed on after you?
Funny you should mention that, ‘cause curiously enough we haven’t heard a peep out of them since we left five years ago.
He’s right. And I like the division of labor, Bezos focuses on the Moon, and Musk on Mars.
Now, if we could get someone to look toward the Asteroid Belt, and someone else the water-moon Europa, we’ll have our bases covered.
A sense of urgency would be a breath of fresh air.
SHow us the way, Jethro!
I hope he spends his money on this. As projects go, this is less problematic for the human race than more socialism.
We do need to leave the Earth and colonize, but not for the reasons stated. Much like the reasons certain Europeans left Europe for the new world, people who want to be free will seek a new home elsewhere to thrive.
And, I would expect a similar outcome after a few centuries. Those risk takers, after a few false starts, will become a free powerhouse in all aspects. Earth will eventually be drained of the remaining quality gene pool, and continue to decline like Europe has.
You first.
Elon Musk has this car...ask him about it.
There is hardly a place in the solar system where we could exist for very long. The number of products we’d need to exist as a civilization are astonishing and there would be little in the way of materials on hand to make them. Then, there’s the Sun, which we are protected from on Earth, but which would ravage our DNA almost anywhere else. Then, there’s the atmosphere, or lack thereof.
If something bad happens here and civilization goes into a dark, low-tech phase for a few years, decades or centuries, we could, in theory, live off the land. A similar calamity in space would see everybody dead in minutes, hours, days.
And, then, there’s the biggie. There are more microbes living in our bodies than there are human cells. (That’s because they are so much smaller than human cells.) We have evolved with them and so we hardly notice they are there unless something happens to upset the balance. Suppose there are microbes on Mars or the Moon and they find our armpits or other crannies where there is an abundance of moisture. They are likely to reproduce very fast. Our immune systems will likely not recognize them and they will kill us in no time.
This guy hasn’t given five minutes thought to the practicality of living in space, let alone moving us all there. (Oh, and what about all those sacred sites that some religions have to visit?)
Mars. OK. But Pluto?! Brrr!
No, idiot. Colonizing the Moon is a stupid idea.
1. Man is not optimized for life on the Moon.
2. Man is optimized for life on Earth.
3. It is irresponsible to conceive children with the express purpose of forcing them to live their lives on the Moon.
They have the right to be born on Earth, with blue skies, green trees, wind, rain, birds, elephants, etc. No one has the right to deprive them of the life on the planet that they are optimized for.
Of course, no one gives a $hit about what I just said. A society that celebrates killing unborn babies doesn’t give one flying f*ck about whether babies get to live on Earth or on the Moon.
Funny how the neo-communists always blame humans for the “mess” were are supposed to have made. But, what they really mean is that everyone else should leave/die-off so they can live in their utopia.
SO, Jeffy, why don’t YOU start with YOURSELF. Send us a note on how it’s going for you and we’ll follow.
At some point the richest people on earth are going to start asking themselves, “why do we need all of these people?”
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