A few weeks ago, Londoners passed by Nine Elms on a sweaty commute and began to notice a new development: Transparent pool Hanging between two buildings. It is designed to immerse the rich in luxury—as if adding acrimony to the experience—looking down on other people and rubbing their faces. It immediately became the perfect symbol of London’s huge wealth divide and all the mistakes of architectural priorities. No wonder whether some of us spent a few days morbidly guessing the safety of transparent floors?
versus Sky pool, The sky itself is the same. Jeff Bezos touched a new field this week: Space travel is not scientific exploration, but vacation.He spent his 10 minutes to the edge of space Send passionate messages to the rest of us-“The best. Day. Ever”, “Happy, happy, happy”-and then return to the earth and tell us: “You paid the price for all this.” (The petition to keep him there has reached 185,000 signatures).
If you think it’s irritating to watch a billionaire spend a good time in space while the rest of us boil on the subway, then wait. All of this has paved the way for space tourism-but only for very wealthy people. Virgin Atlantic currently sells tickets for the Edge of Space for $250,000. Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has sold nearly $100 million on future passenger flights. Soon more rich people will basically use the earth as a trampoline, and then come back to tell us how fragile it is from above.
In any case, this is the key revelation for Bezos. “When you stand on it, you will see that it is actually very thin. It is a small and fragile thing, and when we move on the earth, we are destroying it,” he said. “It’s one thing to know it intellectually; it’s another thing to see it with your own eyes.” Amazon emitted 60 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2020.
But of course, the cost of this grand realization is even greater Harm to the earth. The impact of each flight may be small, but they will add up. Branson’s spacecraft released toxic and greenhouse gases—climate scientists estimate that carbon emissions per passenger mile are about 60 times that of business class flights. Bezos uses liquid hydrogen, which does not emit carbon when burned, but emits when it is produced. For a long time, the best thing climate-conscious celebrities can do for the planet is simply sit down and talk with their partners about their private jets. We can expect to extend it to private space flight.
But perhaps the most irritating aspect of the coming space age is that people on Earth will see rich people pretending to be astronauts as some kind of inspiration. “What we are doing here is the first step in something big,” Bezos said on Tuesday. He wants to “increase access to space.” As far as Branson is concerned, he wants to “open up space to everyone.” Not those prices.
Prince George’s birthday photos are cute but disturbing
This is Prince George’s eighth birthday, and as usual, the royal family released a photo. Of course it’s cute, but I think the Cambridge couple actually had to feed us pictures of their children because we paid for them, as if they were a public utility, or as if we were particularly generous but bossy aunts, which always seemed to me It’s very strange. I hope that one day we or George will resist.
