Suburbs in space
Amazon chief delivers bold plan for future of humans...
he students did “a lot of work”, then came back and decided the answer was no, he said.
The colonies would allow the human population to grow to thousands of times more than the 7.7 billion on Earth today.
Bezos said: “The solar system can support a trillion humans, and then we’d have 1,000 Mozarts, and 1,000 Einsteins.
“Think how incredible and dynamic that civilisation will be.”
His space suburbs would protect Earth, which he describes as “the gem of the solar system”, as it would be kept for residential purposes and light industries.
The colonies would have “many advantages” including the protection of Earth. It is why he called his space company Blue Origin, after the “blue planet”, where all human life started.
Bezos, worth an estimated £101billion, said: “We want to go to space to protect this planet.”
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He said the main advantage of colonies would be their proximity to Earth.
“The transit time and the energy required to move between planets is so high,” he said.
“But if you have giant space colonies that are energetically close and, in terms of travel time close to Elon Musk