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Jeff Bezos: Forget Mars, humans will live in these free-floating space
pod colonies
Published Fri, Mar 8 2019 1:15 PM ESTUpdated Fri, Mar 8 2019 3:26 PM EST
Catherine Clifford
@CATCLIFFORD
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, founder of space venture Blue Origin and owner of
The Washington Post.Alex Wong | Getty Images News | Getty Images
Richest man alive Jeff Bezos says Mars is not a place humans would be
comfortable living.
“My friends who want to move to Mars? I say, ‘Do me a favor, go live on
the top of Mount Everest for a year first, and see if you like it —
because it’s a garden paradise compared to Mars,’” Bezos said at the
Yale Club in New York City in February, according to a Business Insider
transcript.
That is not to say that Bezos, who founded Amazon and aerospace company
Blue Origin, is not interested in sending regular people to space. Bezos
says moving to space will become necessary as the population is
expanding and Earth’s resources are finite. Eventually, an Earth-bound
population would face population control and energy rationing, Bezos said.
”...[T]hat to me seems like a pretty bleak world. We don’t have to have
that,” Bezos said.
There are currently over 7.6 billion people on earth, but if space
becomes a viable place for humans to live, the solar system has enough
resources to support 1 trillion humans, Bezos said. “Then we’d have
1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins. Think how incredible and dynamic that
civilization will be.”
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However, said Bezos, “I don’t think we’ll live on planets.” Instead he
envisions humans living in self-sufficient space structures, like those
designed by Princeton physics professor Gerard O’Neil.
Below is an artist rendering of the exterior of what one of O’Neil’s
space settlements would look like.
Painting by Rick Guidice courtesy of NASA.
O’Neill’s space settlements include two cylinders, each 20 miles long
and 4 miles in diameter, according to the National Space Society. Below
is an artist rendering of the interior of one of the cylinders.
Painting by Rick Guidice courtesy of NASA.
“The space colonies we’ll build will have many advantages. The primary
one is that they’ll be close to Earth. The transit time and the amount
of energy required to move between planets is so high,” Bezos said.
“Ultimately what will happen, is this planet will be zoned residential
and light industry. We’ll have universities here and so on, but we won’t
do heavy industry here. Why would we? This is the gem of the solar
system. Why would we do heavy industry here? It’s nonsense.”
The artist rendering below is an artist rendering of inside of one of
O’Neill’s space settlement cylinders, according to the National Space
Society.
Painting by Don Davis courtesy of NASA.
Like Bezos, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk believes humans will be a
multiplanetary species.
“I really believe in the future of space,” Musk said on Saturday at the
Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the launch of its unmanned rocket
ship Crew Dragon. “I think it is important that we become a space-faring
civilization and be out there among the stars ... We want the things
that are in science fiction novels and movies not be science fiction
forever. We want them to be real one day.”
However Musk envisions humans “terraforming” Mars, or making the surface
inhabitable, so people can live there. It will be extremely risky, says
Musk.
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“It’s gonna be hard. There’s a good chance of death, going in a little
can through deep space. You might land successfully, [but] once you land
successfully, you’ll be working non-stop to build the base — so not much
time for leisure.
“And once you get there, even after all this, there’s a very harsh
environment, so there’s a good chance you’ll die there. We think you can
come back but we’re not sure,” Musk told Axios in November.
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millions
Elon Musk defends plans to build a community on Mars after downbeat NASA
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Elon Musk: Moving to Mars will cost less than $500,000, ‘maybe even
below $100,000’
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/jeff-bezos-mount-everest-is-a-garden-paradise-compared-to-mars.html
(interesting graphics at the citation)
Jeff Bezos: Forget Mars, humans will live in these free-floating space
pod colonies
Published Fri, Mar 8 2019 1:15 PM ESTUpdated Fri, Mar 8 2019 3:26 PM EST
Catherine Clifford
@CATCLIFFORD
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, founder of space venture Blue Origin and owner of
The Washington Post.Alex Wong | Getty Images News | Getty Images
Richest man alive Jeff Bezos says Mars is not a place humans would be
comfortable living.
“My friends who want to move to Mars? I say, ‘Do me a favor, go live on
the top of Mount Everest for a year first, and see if you like it —
because it’s a garden paradise compared to Mars,’” Bezos said at the
Yale Club in New York City in February, according to a Business Insider
transcript.
That is not to say that Bezos, who founded Amazon and aerospace company
Blue Origin, is not interested in sending regular people to space. Bezos
says moving to space will become necessary as the population is
expanding and Earth’s resources are finite. Eventually, an Earth-bound
population would face population control and energy rationing, Bezos said.
”...[T]hat to me seems like a pretty bleak world. We don’t have to have
that,” Bezos said.
There are currently over 7.6 billion people on earth, but if space
becomes a viable place for humans to live, the solar system has enough
resources to support 1 trillion humans, Bezos said. “Then we’d have
1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins. Think how incredible and dynamic that
civilization will be.”
View image on Twitter
View image on Twitter
Jeff Bezos
✔
@JeffBezos
The stunning Perito Moreno Glacier in Patagonia. We’ve sent robotic
probes to every planet in this solar system. Earth is BY FAR the best
one. We go to space to save the Earth. @BlueOrigin #NoPlanB
#GradatimFerociter
15.4K
7:30 AM - Feb 3, 2018
3,868 people are talking about this
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However, said Bezos, “I don’t think we’ll live on planets.” Instead he
envisions humans living in self-sufficient space structures, like those
designed by Princeton physics professor Gerard O’Neil.
Below is an artist rendering of the exterior of what one of O’Neil’s
space settlements would look like.
Painting by Rick Guidice courtesy of NASA.
O’Neill’s space settlements include two cylinders, each 20 miles long
and 4 miles in diameter, according to the National Space Society. Below
is an artist rendering of the interior of one of the cylinders.
Painting by Rick Guidice courtesy of NASA.
“The space colonies we’ll build will have many advantages. The primary
one is that they’ll be close to Earth. The transit time and the amount
of energy required to move between planets is so high,” Bezos said.
“Ultimately what will happen, is this planet will be zoned residential
and light industry. We’ll have universities here and so on, but we won’t
do heavy industry here. Why would we? This is the gem of the solar
system. Why would we do heavy industry here? It’s nonsense.”
The artist rendering below is an artist rendering of inside of one of
O’Neill’s space settlement cylinders, according to the National Space
Society.
Painting by Don Davis courtesy of NASA.
Like Bezos, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk believes humans will be a
multiplanetary species.
“I really believe in the future of space,” Musk said on Saturday at the
Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the launch of its unmanned rocket
ship Crew Dragon. “I think it is important that we become a space-faring
civilization and be out there among the stars ... We want the things
that are in science fiction novels and movies not be science fiction
forever. We want them to be real one day.”
However Musk envisions humans “terraforming” Mars, or making the surface
inhabitable, so people can live there. It will be extremely risky, says
Musk.
Embedded video
SpaceX
✔
@SpaceX
Supporting the creation of a permanent, self-sustaining human presence
on Mars. http://spacex.com/mars
30K
10:18 PM - Sep 28, 2017
12K people are talking about this
Twitter Ads info and privacy
“It’s gonna be hard. There’s a good chance of death, going in a little
can through deep space. You might land successfully, [but] once you land
successfully, you’ll be working non-stop to build the base — so not much
time for leisure.
“And once you get there, even after all this, there’s a very harsh
environment, so there’s a good chance you’ll die there. We think you can
come back but we’re not sure,” Musk told Axios in November.
See also:
Elon Musk always thought SpaceX would ‘fail’ and he’d lose his PayPal
millions
Elon Musk defends plans to build a community on Mars after downbeat NASA
report
Elon Musk: Moving to Mars will cost less than $500,000, ‘maybe even
below $100,000’
1:26
Here’s what it will be like to travel to Mars in Elon Musk’s spaceship
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