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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Thanks Grimmy. Bezos articulates well against the attempt to replace conventional sources of electricity with solar cells.
Could be they are more like Howard Hughes and his Glomar Explorer in Project Azorian... and the covert services folks are using their eccentricity and even exaggerating it in order to have crazy cover stories to distract the press and public and foreigners from asking any meaningful questions.
It’s the Helium 3 on the Moon. He wants to corner the market.
All of his wealth and ego are still built on the backs of true titans before him like Franklin, Edison, Carnegie, Ford, et al.
Today’s “new” technology is nothing but improvements on stuff already invented.
Fundamental computers even goes back decades.
I posted before reading yours about those men of the past. I was comparing Bezos to just standing on their backs and only improving their ideas.
Your point was interesting. At the same time, today it might be their improvements have just given access to a larger market. In the old days companies like Sears, Coca-Cola, Bell Telephone, etc. were also deep in the minds and hearts of the public. Marketing is eternal. lol
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