9/13/2023 0 Comments Blue origin rocket dr evil![]() ![]() However, it was not only the rocket that managed to gather some attention online, as the spacesuits worn by Bezos and his fellow space passengers, which included his bother Mark, and Wally Funk and Oliver Daemon, who now hold the titles of the oldest and youngest humans to have been in space, gained their own movie based comparisons to Marvel's Fantastic Four. While this may have been Bezos' first expedition to space, it is unlikely it will be his last, although a slight design rethink could be on the cards. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic launched only this week, while Elon Musk's SpaceX project has been littering the cosmos with dozens of ships. ![]() It's a ridiculous, costly way to get into space.The Blue Origin launch is the latest in the on-going space race competition that is becoming case of my rocket's bigger than yours. This civilization I'm talking about of getting comfortable living and working in space and having millions of people and then billions of people and then finally a trillion people in space? You can't do that with space vehicles that you use once and then throw away. It'll fly for the first time in 2020, and the key is reusability. And we are building a very large orbital vehicle, we've been working on that for more than 5 years. We're getting very close, we've been working on it for years. We have sent robotic probes to every planet in this solar system now and believe me this is the best one.ĭöpfner: But Jeff, when can I buy the first ticket to do a little space tour?īezos: The first tourism vehicle - we won't be selling tickets yet - we may put humans in it at the end of this year or at the beginning of next year. It will basically be a very beautiful planet. For a century or more, it's been compounding at a few percent a year - our energy usage as a civilization.Īnd by the way, I believe that - in that timeframe - we will move all heavy industry off of Earth, and Earth will be zoned residential and light industry. In our actual developed-world state, we're using 11,000 Watts, and it's growing. So, in a natural state, where we're animals, we're only using a 100 Watts. Amazing.īut if you extrapolate in developed countries, where we use a lot of energy, on average in developed countries, our civilizational metabolic rate is 11,000 Watts. Your power, your body, is the same as a 100-watt lightbulb. If you take your body, your metabolic rate as a human - as just an animal, you eat food, that's your metabolism - you burn about a 100 watts. Let me give you just a couple of numbers. We all enjoy a dynamic civilization of growth and change. I don't want my great-grandchildren's great-grandchildren to live in a civilization of stasis. I'm pursuing this work because I believe if we don't, we will eventually end up with a civilization of stasis, which I find very demoralizing. But that is not why I'm pursuing this work. First of all, of course, I'm interested in space, because I'm passionate about it and I've been studying it and thinking about it since I was a 5-year-old boy. ![]() It often indicates a user profile.ĭöpfner: So you'd say retail, e-commerce, publishing - that's all less relevant than the space project?īezos: Yes, and I'll tell you why. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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