Must be fun being able to say crazy shit and have news articles written about it.

He realizes that's only 20 years from now, right?

The infrastructure to support millions would have to already have begun construction like a could decades ago already for that to be remotely plausible.

It takes like 3+ years just to make a 6 episode tv show about space these days...

I always felt like when Amazon acquired The Expanse that it was likely Bezo's fantasy to have an underclass of chronically ill, resource-starved people in space - to serve his interests and make him richer.

Glad to know I wasn't off-base.

We don't need to live in space. Space is not naturally habitable by humans. We just need to stop fucking up the one planet that is.

More proof that the ultra wealthy don't exist in reality.

Robots commuting to the moon.

Robots.

Commuting.

To the moon.

This is the most extreme case of affluenza I've ever seen. Let's pray that it's terminal.

More proof that billionaires are completely detached from reality.

Man, I'm SO glad newspapers don't tell the whole world whenever I say something stupid. That would be really embarrassing.

The largest spaceship today is the falcon heavy with a payload of just over 140k lbs. To make the math easy let's say the falcon can lift 1000 people into space at a time.

If "millions of people" means 2 million people then we would need to launch 1000 people into space twice per week for 20 years. So 8 fully loaded falcon heavys per month for 240 months straight.

So.... No. We will not have millions of people in space any time soon.

Let's send the billionaires first so they can show us!

"I don’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now,” the Amazon and Blue Origin founder said"

I went into this article expecting the space thing to be the most unhinged thing Bezos said. But nope, it was the above quote. Insane wealth is a helluva drug.

He must be high from all the money he's swimming in

I was told we'd have personal jetpacks by the year 2000, yet all we got was the y2k bug and shitty cars. So I will take what Daft Bozos says with a pinch of salt and also take this time to call him a cunt.

Bozos, you're a CUNT.

“So 10,000 years ago, or whenever it was, somebody invented the plough, and we all got richer…. I’m talking about all of civilization, these tools increase our abundance, and that pattern will continue.”

Can't fucking help himself but think of how to get richer. He just came out and said it with his little unrelated example: "this is so we can get richer"... Who's "we"? They want you to think it could one day be you, but we know that's the opposite of what they think.

Must be so fucking hard to imagine a technological advance that doesn't make you richer as priority #1, but helps people instead.

Lead by example, Jeff.

Nope

Not happening, and not even close.

We still don't have a first moon base, and no idea how to even build one that'll last.

First you'll need a proof of concept base, it'll take you a good decade to get that done

Then, millions? Any idea how many tickets that is?

The richer, the dumber

when will we just tell these people to shut the fuck up and that we don't care what they think? I've never heard a tech billionaire say anything remotely smart for decades now.

This is your brain on sycophancy.

Putting a million people in space would require ten of thousand of launches if they were Boeing 737s carrying the people.

Housing a million people in space would require technology that won't exist in 20 years let alone in time to have it built in 20 years.

This kind of shit is just so fucking stupid.

It takes them 2 years to build an Amazon warehouse in fucking Michigan. We're supposed to believe they're going to build space stations to support a million people in 20 years?

Who is this stupid? Who believes this shit?

Billionaires get all the best drugs

If that guys in charge, I would assume those millions are being forced to work in 'Mars in Total Recall' conditions. Basically slave labor in abhorrent conditions with food/air being withheld when you don't slave away hard enough.

When you shit money like diarrhea, saying stupid shit becomes common place.

That's 20 years and utterly ridiculous

How has such an idiot talker been able to accumulate such indecent amount of resources?

Highly doubt many will live there, if anything it will have a couple of research stations like Anctartica .

Jeffy watches too much science fiction where at some point in history, massive rockets to space became free and people stopped breathing oxygen.

LOL that's not how capitalism works and let's face it: countries aren't interested in space programs anymore

He looks absolutely ridiculous with the cowboy hat.

All hat, no cattle.

Jeff Bezos says a lot of things

Yay Elysium!!!! I ALWAYS wanted that movie to be the dystopia we ended up with! It seemed TOO realistic.

Except the med beds will just be normal health care.

Uh oh, did he get on the ketamine wagon too

~~Millions~~ millionaires will be living in space.

Doubt

Oh is he going to build a space elevator or something?

Even if we had cheap safe reliable rocket launchers (Which I think SpaceX is fairly adequately demonstrated that we do not have) millions of people wouldn't be living on the moon in 20 years. It took decades after the invention of the jetliner before millions of people were doing transatlantic flights, and as unpleasant as Florida can be, it's a lot more survivable than the moon (probably).

These idiots say so much crap, why are we reporting on it?

REMEMBER even star trek went through a ww3 with 600mil dead to finally get into space.

I don't think we have the capacity to launch a million people into orbit in 20 years, let alone all the stuff they need. I mean, 1 million people weigh about 150 million pounds, and that's just meat and bones. .