Jeff Bezos Predicts We'll Have 1 Trillion Humans in the Solar System, and Blue Origin Wants To Help Get Us There

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos predicted Monday that we'll have one trillion humans in the solar system one day -- and he showed off how the rocket company plans to help get there. "I won't be alive to see the fulfillment of that long term mission," Bezos said at the Wired 25th anniversary summit in San Francisco. "We are starting to bump up against the absolute true fact that Earth is finite." From a report: Blue Origin's aim is to lower the cost of access to space, Bezos said. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic are also eyeing commercial space travel. "The dynamism that I have seen over the last 20 years in the internet where incredible things have happened in really short periods of time," Bezos said. "We need thousands of companies. We need the same dynamism in space that we've seen online over the last 20 years. And we can do that." Further reading: Jeff Bezos Wants Us All to Leave Earth -- for Good.

Boring

[Anonymous Coward]

Getting sick of these sociopathic Big Tech billionaires trying to "space-wash" their unfettered greed with sci-fi fantasies of "taking humanity to live in AI machines on Mars"

This fucking cunt could end world hunger with his pocket change today, but wont.

He is not the savior of the human race.

Neither is Elon Musk. Neither is Richard Branson. Neither is Mark Zuckerberg.

Learn to spot a confidence job.

Narcissistic fuck

[Anonymous Coward]

How about we work with what we've already got beneath our feet before we go trampling over the rest of it?

Takes a fat glass of ignorance for anyone on this planet right now to say that we are not affecting the planet's systems by being here and doing what we are doing.

Everything that ever happens has a fucking effect on everything else and people ought to sooner than later quit with the narcissistic need to be right and realize these SIMPLE FUCKING TRUTHS.

Like I've said in other posts, Earth is self-regulating. We are not some blemish on the planet, not innately. It's fucking ludicrous from a cosmic perspective to think that we are some pest to the planet. It's our unchecked alteration of its physical systems ON TOP OF the planet's natural regulatory cycles, which indude the measure of climate change that will be no longer deniable in the near future.

Feedback systems. It's not fucking rocket science you fucking bigots. But it IS fucking SCIENCE. "SCIENCE, BITCH."

Also science: the sun will someday explode, and this solar system will be no more, not as we know it.

But that's not on the radar right now. We have millions upon millions of years until that happens.

Half eaten bread. That's how wastefully these narcissistic space-billionare fucks look at this planet.

Warm it up (the bread, not the planet, pun intended) and fucking eat it you ignorant motherfuckers.

Love you too.

p.s.

If you're not aware that we are already in space, and exploring far far FAR more of our solar system than the public relations branch of NASA gets to talk to us about, why don't you read a little bit about superconductivity, toroidal magnetic field dynamics, or just go back to high school and take your fucking physics class again.

No pun intended here but IT IS *NOT* FUCKING ROCKET SCIENCE.

OPEN YOUR GOD DAMNED FUCKING EYES

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[110010001000]

Ending world hunger includes educating people. This will reduce reproduction. The idea that hungry people won't reproduce is silly. Just look around. He OP is right: the megalomaniac Internet "moguls" need to focus on Earth, not outer space. No one is living anywhere else but on Earth. We can't: we evolved to live here and our entire physiology depends on it.

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[Sperbels]

Education doesn't reduce population. Offering birth control to women is extremely effective...but you must control all the governments to make this possible...and not a lot of people are on board with this idea anyway. Bringing everyone up to the decadent standards of living we have in the west helps too...unfortunately the planet simply can't sustain that many people living that wastefully. Honestly, we're probably just headed more warfare and famine regardless of what we do. And transplanting vast numbers of people off planet is just stupid. It can't happen with current technology. Colonization will happen with small numbers of people building out infrastructure and filling it with their own children.