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Jeff Bezos: ‘Move All Heavy Industry into Space’ to Save Earth
Breitbart ^ | November 25, 2019 | David Ng

Posted on 11/26/2019 5:30:50 AM PST by karpov

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has once again sounded the alarm on the environment, reportedly telling an audience in San Diego that all heavy industrial activity must be moved to space to save Earth.

Bezos appeared at the San Diego Air & Space Museum on Saturday to be inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame for his work on Blue Origin, the space flight company he founded in 2000. The Times of San Diego reported that Bezos addressed a crowd of about 600 invitees at the private event.

“I believe that, one day, Earth will be zoned residential and light industry. We’ll move all heavy industry into space. That’s the only way, really, to save this planet,” the world’s richest man reportedly told the crowd.

Bezos said that moving beyond Earth is the only way to sustain a civilization that consumes more and more resources.

“You want a dynamic civilization that continues to use more and more energy and more and more resources and build amazing things,” he reportedly said. “And to do that, you have to move out into the solar system.”

Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, previously invoked the idea of a post-Earth civilization in May at an event for Blue Origin in Washington, DC.

“If we move out into the solar system, for all practical purposes, we have unlimited resources,” he said in May.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: amazon; bezos; blueorigin; earth; space
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To: karpov

Very stupid. Industry needs power and raw materials. Moving things from Earth to Earth orbit is enormously expensive. Getting the finished product back is equally expensive.

I assume the orbiting factories would have a few humans on board. They would be subject to radiation and unable to stay very long. They would be in zero gravity. Not everyone can function in zero gravity.

And no, you don’t have unlimited resources out in the solar system. You are limited by the extreme cost of mining those resources.

You think you can change the world just because you are rich.


61 posted on 11/26/2019 6:45:43 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: marktwain
It is silly to assume space INDUSTRIAL technology will not have made any improvements in 100 or 500 years.
62 posted on 11/26/2019 6:55:20 AM PST by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: Wuli

He’s a jack***. Most all the very rich and very successful come to believe they are god and need to arrange the world. It’s tiring.


63 posted on 11/26/2019 6:56:21 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: marktwain

I was on a team years ago that studied them.

Attractive idea with a lot of problems!


64 posted on 11/26/2019 6:57:23 AM PST by Reily
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To: Wuli

I know that.
He’s just trying to sound “Futuristic”!
Good copy for the press.


65 posted on 11/26/2019 6:59:05 AM PST by Reily
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To: karpov
Bezos needs to stop jumping 500-1000 years into the future and back. He's forgetting which time he's in. There's no way to do what he suggests even if all the equipment and manpower could be put in orbit.

For one thing Mr. Fusion hasn't been invented yet. However the DeLorian Pickup Truck has just been released by Tesla. Oh, I get it now, Bezos wanted to out tech Elon Musk. :)


66 posted on 11/26/2019 7:00:22 AM PST by Boomer (Epstein didn't kill himself...)
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To: karpov

Move all liberals/commies to the moon to save humanity,


67 posted on 11/26/2019 7:02:57 AM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: Reily

Sorry. I got on a tear about the crony-capitalist Bezos.


68 posted on 11/26/2019 7:06:32 AM PST by Wuli
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To: karpov

Gee, how do we send up raw materials and bring down finished goods without chemical rockets? This man is delusional.


69 posted on 11/26/2019 7:07:20 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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To: karpov
It sounds daffy, but long term, and I mean really long term, Bezos is right.

Asteroid mining will provide the raw materials for heavy industry in space.

70 posted on 11/26/2019 7:11:35 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo
It sounds daffy, but long term, and I mean really long term, Bezos is right.

Asteroid mining will provide the raw materials for heavy industry in space.

Exactly.

Very few are willing to look more than 50 years out.

Good logic.

71 posted on 11/26/2019 7:14:34 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Wuli

NP
Likewise not a fan of him !


72 posted on 11/26/2019 7:17:25 AM PST by Reily
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To: karpov

But...but...but if we move heavy industry ti space we will pollute the entire UNIVERSE and then...and then, we’ll ALL DIE!!!


73 posted on 11/26/2019 7:26:12 AM PST by billyboy15
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To: Lockbox
And won’t it take a lot of energy to send heavy industries into space?

Not to mention bringing the products back to earth.

Reminds me of Patricia Schroeder when she ran for President and cried that, "companies have to learn that the purpose of their companies is to provide jobs for the workers" (to hell with producing a product to sell).

74 posted on 11/26/2019 7:34:24 AM PST by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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To: libertylover

the old “we may lose money on each new job, but we will make that up in volume!”


75 posted on 11/26/2019 7:37:55 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: Wuli

“”””””””People are really just lazy to begin with and will spend the least amount of effort to do anything. Buying the marketing hype of Amazon they quit “shopping” and just go to Amazon””””””””””””

I believe a great deal of online shopping is more of an addiction than a true need for the product.


76 posted on 11/26/2019 8:02:41 AM PST by shelterguy
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77 posted on 11/26/2019 8:12:06 AM PST by bunkerhill7
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To: marktwain

First step: Mine the moon. Thats where the easiest to find/mine/and process the rich ore found in the craters.....

Then when the Moon is stripped, on to the asteroid belt. De-orbit and direct the good ones to the Moon where the equipment is for processing.

Now what to do with the leftover rubble around and on the Moon?


78 posted on 11/26/2019 8:23:14 AM PST by Doctor DNA (retired)
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To: Doctor DNA

Build housing.

Or, use it for mass driver ammunition...


79 posted on 11/26/2019 8:25:15 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: kaboom

...or move industry underground...


80 posted on 11/26/2019 8:28:44 AM PST by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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