- Jeff Bezos predicts that humans will one day be born in space and live in outer space colonies at the same time.
- In an interview on Wednesday, he said that a space colony is more meaningful than moving to a new planet.
- Colonizing Mars is the main goal of SpaceX, Elon Musk and Bezos’ main space rival.
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In Jeff Bezos’ vision of the future, people will be born in space colonies and visit the earth on vacation.
In a conversation on Wednesday, Bezos discussed space, the Blue Origin program, and the relationship between space exploration and saving the planet. 2021 Ignatius Forum In Washington, DC.
In the interview, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin expanded his thoughts on space colonies: floating habitats that mimic the Earth’s weather and gravity.this Floating, rotating cylinder He said it will be able to accommodate up to one million people and have “river, forest and wild animals.”
“For centuries, many people will be born in space, and this will be their first home,” Bezos said. “They will be born in these colonies, live in these colonies, and then they will visit the earth like you visit Yellowstone National Park.”
Bezos first mentioned the idea of establishing a space colony as early as His farewell speech at the high school graduation ceremony, He said on Wednesday that he thinks a space colony is a better option than trying to restart life on another planet.
Bezos said: “Even if you want to transform Mars or do some very dramatic things-by the way, it can be very, very challenging-even if you do, it will be at most twice the size of the Earth.”. “Then You will increase from 10 billion people to 20 billion people.”
How to build life outside the earth is A major point of contention Between Bezos and Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Musk once said that the main goal of his rocket company is to “colonize Mars,” and the earth transformation mentioned by Bezos seems to be an indirect attack on Musk: Musk supports ideas directly from science fiction, in which the earth needs to be used. The nuclear weapons were modified to make them suitable for human habitation (NASA has since stated This doesn’t work).
As far as he is concerned, Musk tweeted in 2019 Bezos’ plan will not work either, because you need to “transmit a lot of mass from planets/satellites/asteroids.”
“It’s like trying to build America in the mid-Atlantic,” he said.
