Humanity will move most industry into space and allow only a select few to remain on our planet, which will be turned into a natural resort, according to self-funded space explorer Jeff Bezos.
The Amazon billionaire enthusiastically shared his predictions for what human civilization will look like in the future – with him personally helping to bring that future closer – during a talk at the annual Ignatius Forum in Washington, DC.
He expects vast cylindrical space colonies spinning to create artificial gravity for millions of residents to take over most industrial production. Meanwhile, Earth will be turned into a natural reserve with restricted access similar to US national parks today.
“This place is special, we can’t ruin it,” the founder of Amazon said of our planet.
“Millions of people will move from Earth to space over time. And that’s the vision of Blue Origin – millions of people working in space,” he said, referring to his own firm.
“Over centuries, most or many of the people will be born in space. It will be their first home. They will be born on these colonies, they will live on these colonies. They may visit Earth the way you would visit Yellowstone National Park,” Bezos predicted.
He said that the colonies themselves “will have rivers and forests and wildlife,” which arguably brought his speech out of the realm of futurology and towards optimistic science fiction. Amazon is infamously resourceful when it comes to squeezing its workers for every drop of productivity. That’s why the similarly rosy description of ‘Amazon factory towns’ solving economic inequality in the US was met with horror, when it was proposed by a Bloomberg columnist in September.
Bezos referred to Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill, who proposed the concept of space habitats in 1976, as the source of inspiration for him. He said the sort of expansion he predicted was inevitable, if humanity is to grow in a sustainable way.
“This Earth can support, let’s say, 10 billion people to a certain degree. We’d have to work really hard to figure out how to do that without degrading the planet… The solar system can support a trillion people,” he said.
The entrepreneur didn’t comment on who he thinks would decide who gets to live on Earth in the future, when asked by the host of the event, Adi Ignatius. If historic precedent is any indicator, privileges granted by wealth and status may be involved.
The perks of Bezos’ own status as one of the richest people on Earth were discussed in the interview, when Bezos bragged about managing to get a cameo in his favorite movie franchise, Star Trek.
“That was not an easy gig to get,” he said of his appearance in the 2006 feature film ‘Star Trek: Beyond’. “I insisted on a speaking role, which complicated the whole scenario,” he said.
In the movie, Bezos wore alien prosthetics and had one line: “Speak normally.” He said he “nailed it,” prompting laughter from the audience.
Talking about Blue Origin, the billionaire compared his firm to barnstormers from the early days of aviation. He said taking rich tourists on suborbital flights will turn them into “Earth ambassadors,” who would advocate for increasing space exploration in the name of protecting our planet. This will give more resources to making manned space travel routine, similar to how biplanes of old evolved into the passenger airliners of today, he said.
“The hard part is not space travel – that part was solved in the 1960s. Not reusability – the space shuttle sort of did that. The hard part is operational reusability,” he said. “It requires practice to get it right.”
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God is gonna get me…May JB be sucked into space with a failing helmet. May he take BJ and the others too.
Yes He is coming but not until we endure 7 years and then He will come in the clouds:
no.. that conflates Israel and the church and law and grace.
It wrenches scripture.
there was no “church” in those relative apocalyptic prophecies from Israel’s prophets.
This is true. The rapture of Christians is a 19th century, American idea.
This just shows that it is not only poor folks in the ghetto smoking crack.
These are the same idiots that were thinking of seeding clouds over the earth to block out the sun to protect the planet from their phony globull warming.
I mean what could go wrong??
That is especially the question, with the Sun in a minimum radiance situation, and Volcanoes pumping out particulate and dust achieving the same effect naturally .
That’s probably how Bezos would prefer things to be, but I’ve got several million rednecks who disagree.
I’ll be there.
Let’s just put bezo on a slow ride to the nearest quasar..
light his ash up.
Bezos; man with god complex… Fuck you, Bezos…
Thanks for posting the video.
Anybody want to bet he got the ‘placebo’ vaccine?
“They” all did. They aren’t stupid.
Delusional maniac nutter, OR….
A carnival barker selling the MEGA expensive rides on his Ferris wheel?
Neither. He thinks he found a source of slave labor. With credit at the company store. There are plenty who will happily follow him.
The thought has occured to me that perhaps we’re being eliminated as a species and the Earth is being colonized by a superior, more advanced species.
Bezoans?
Need to make sure that preening assclowns like Bezos and Gates are NOT among those left alive…..
In Michigan, firearm hunting season for deer starts today.
Jeeeez, where’s the damn mask Jeff?
Hmmmmmm. I wonder if he will be one of them?
He won’t be but the people that purvey this always think they will be.
floating in space inside a spinning Bezosville tin can shipping consumer goods to other tin cans, does not fulfill my outer space adventure dream life.
You missed the point. “Only a few people would be ALLOWED to stay on the Earth.” That implies genocide, which is what people like him are up to right now.
Exactly. Especially as I do not believe that it is possible for anything or anyone to leave earth.
They should only allow Progs and Dhimmicrats on them. When they are filled up, we then use them for target practice to test missiles.
From billions of people on Earth to millions living in space. I cannot imagine how they will thin the herds and decide who must die.
They’ve already got that part figured out with their crazy vaccines that the sheep (mostly leftists) are buying into.
Let’s go Brandon and FJB, both of em!
Actually, that’s very easy for them. You remember the maps showing the RED states in the last election in the U.S.? Yeah, those are the places where people will die first.
No Jeff, it was not solved beyond low earth orbit. And now that Stanley Kubrick is dead, were never going beyond that.
I can’t help but think of the Golgafrinchans from “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
WTF would people do in space? It sounds really boring once the thrill of staring out the windows went away. it’s funny how evil rich people want to tell us all how to live and think we will all just go along with whatever they say and think.
There won’t be any windows. Slaves don’t need to see pretty views.
We?
I think you mostly just try to make sure that if you take a leak it doesn’t float up and get on your shirt.
What kind of alien is Bezo’…or is demon more appropriate. These Corporatist/Globalists are the Fourth Reich and we’re the ones they wish to genocide. Stand and fight.
A character trait that would enable them some semblance of humility and that would be Nobility ,a used to be ideal for humanity that we all be Noble not just some .
In all the years the space station has been around they have never made artificial gravity,hmm
Artificial gravity is quite simple in reality. Have you ever been on that carnival ride where you stand inside a cylindrical tube, it starts to rotate, and then the floor drops out and you are stuck to the inside wall of the cylinder with no floor holding you up? That is artificial gravity.
Why do you think most of the Sci-Fi space stations are built like a giant ring? That ring rotates and centrifugal force attempts to fling anything not tied down, outwards away from the center of the ring. The outside walls of that ring will keep you from flying away but it will push you down onto that wall. There’s your artificial gravity.
The Round Up. I saw a kid barf on that once and it hit a kid on the opposite side. Not enough centrifugal force on the barf, I guess,
He’s right of course, just not in the way he thinks. More like the Revelation kind of way.
It was the bottomless greed of people like HIM that made the earth the hell it is turning into today.
Without them we may have had Tesla’s free energy and many other advances they shut down.
Bezos is one sick Fuck who needs to be Exterminated along with ALL of the “Elites”
Millions will be living in outer space in colonies that “will have rivers and forests and wildlife”.
That is so beyond science fiction, no science fiction writer would ever propose such an idea.
The man has lost touch with reality.
They could have them, just that it will be this virtual reality Meta BS the android Zuckfuque is promoting, not physical stuff.
It is exactly Science Fiction. Read Rendezvous with Rama. By Arthur C. Clarke
“Humanity” will…self-select a few exemplar nodes to live on its home planet Hollywood, says Nostradamus Bezos, the counterfeit-fiat currency billionaire.
A republic, if you can keep it, said another timer-placer miner.
How many empires’ inner umpires have ushered them out of existence?
Hasn’t earth already been carved into national parks? Parks whose boundaries shift & squirm, come & go as hewmanity vivisects & sutures, clearcuts & cabinetmakes?
((Passed thru some of the intranational parks last Fall. Never again. Bumper-to-bumper trailer parks.))
Ain’t it amazing how when a ride goes linear parabolic some riders become convinced that trajectory is permanent, as is their seat in the saddle, their hands puppeting the reigns…despite reams of proof contrary?
No matter how many times Hew-bris circumscises dickheads, predictheads, clean off, plenty replacement mushrooms cloud-grow in Brook(s Hat)lyn.
Yeah…that crooked Shawshank Warden is, & those crooked guards are, just as institutionalized as every lifer the other side of the bars is – & institutions are just as finite-temporary waitin’ on entropic reward as institutionalizeds is. Institutions are the flame, mothheads.
The last resort is always the next to the last resort & Bezos Zenos Arrow ain’t ever gonna get there, either, even if Bezos goes full Zen, becomes the arrow – which he hasn’t, won’t, can’t.
Scale scales the fish, too big is centrifugal-“unsustainable,” & Napoleons filled with frangible fishy frangipane, dessert themselves, & all the bakers in those yellowbrick streets, too, over & over, continuously – but that sweettooth, those sweaty teeth sugar feinds, will not be denied…until they are, yet again. Sssspecious sssspurious sssspecies, very lightly specked with rule-proving exceptions.
The caldera @ Yellowstone is the point. Save that, Bezos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1HhWmjDFAw
Anybody who doesn’t have the “Hell Freezes Over” reunion album is doing themselves a disservice. The evolved instrumentals are as close to perfection as one can ever hope for.
Like the song implies, if someplace is “Paradise” DON’T TELL ANYBODY!
Give this idiocy a fucking rest will you. That article is so bull shit as to be laughable. Do you actually think those supposed elites will be able to farm their own vegetables? Not a chance. They need the working class as we have now, not just a few slaves to do their bidding. WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH IDIOTS ???
Rump- In a word, BOTS. THEY don’t need you NOW…..seriously. Time to rethink your position bud.
Where are the rest of going?
Bezoselbub has been watching “The Expanse” too much.
I have news for this evil rich person, Christ will return soon and his biggest problem is going to be why he ignored God.
It is an exclusive club and we ain’t in it.
Thank God and Praise the Lord for protection from these psychopaths.
What amazes me is that so many are unaware of what is actually occurring to planet Earth. We are heading towards the end of a 12,000 year cycle and we’ve known about this since the 1950s including Einstein. It’s no secret that the Earth’s N & S Poles are in excursion, and have been since 1859. The Earth’s magnetic field has also been weakening since 1859, and is currently down approx. 15% in strength and getting worse. Because cosmic radiation and other forms of radiation are increasingly penetrating the Earth’s atmosphere due to the weakening magnetic field the Earth’s core is acting like a capacitor absorbing energy and then discharging that energy resulting in increased volcanism and seismic activity. This will all increase until the Earth’s magnetic field becomes either negligible or absent allowing cosmic radiation to sterilize life from the surface of the Earth. In addition, as evidence in the geologic record and ice cores, the Earth’s magnetic poles will flip. In this approx. time frame the sun will nova as all stars do (NASA & the astronomy community acknowledges this – stars nova at varying intervals or cycles). The nova that will occur is described as a “micro-nova” and it will devastate the Earth. This is all forecasted to occur within 25-30 years. You have to wonder if these liberal elites know this or they are stupid enough to believe in anthropogenic global warming? Or, they are planning to kill off 90% of the Earth’s population and have no clue what’s coming? The human race will survive as it has in the past, but will likely see the resulting Earth’s population reduced to just millions? Thousands? Each cycle varies in degrees of severity.
A thumbs down? So scientific facts mean nothing here?
he and his family will of course be among the lucky few, even down unto the seventh generation, right jeffy. Your rocket scam, which didn’t really go anywhere, let alone outer space, was a hilarious example of the kind of mimetic resentment you have for trump and musk……pathetic……you should go hide somewhere, like benladen…..in h0le or something.
Bezos needs to make a new rock video with the High Priestess of Satanism Madonna, remember when she made that creepy video/song that, “Not everyone will make it into the new age”? That ho could hump his leg while they sing and some big black guy could cornhole Jeffy in the backside…..they make me sick.
Such linear idiocy is exceeded only by the numerous nincompoops willing even to consider the possibility of such nonsense.
I always wondered what God looked like, I thought he would be better looking. Bezo now owns the planet and all the people upon the Earth. He sounds like he wants to kill my future family so the earth will be his vacation spot without those pesky people. If only there was a shot they could give all the people. Hmmmm
Hey, how about leaving all us who want to stay here to ‘suffer’ from the global warming and evacuate the rest to someplace else, like Mars or Jupiter?
Millions of workers…
What about the rest of the population?
What do you think all of this vaccine nonsense is all about? It’s a poison pill to rid the earth of a majority of the population, the unwashed masses.
The left is profoundly hysterical in their delusions.
Send the loony left to whatever planet you want by telling them we plan to terraform, then being the ship back.
millions living in space….with forests, wildlife, and rivers….
and just WHERE is he going to get all the material to build these huge spinning cylinders???
if it’s from mother earth, then mother earth will NOT be a tourist attraction, it will be a ruined, looted, empty shell ghetto.
Didn’t you see The Martian with Matt Damon? First you grow potatoes in your own excrement. Eventually you’ll have entire excrement forests.
Elysium in reverse…..
How about we send all industrialists to Luna, Mars and the belt. Be kind of like “The Expanse”. Just start shooting them to the moon now, sink or swim. We shall see how these big brains cope with adversity.
They’ll freeze on Mars. Shoot them to the sun.
I’m guessing that Jeffie plans to be one of them. I doubt it.
Mr. Besos is a clown of the greatest magnitude. He sounds like he is ready to hand out eviction notices to everyone in the human race save his specially hand picked successors who get to stay on planet earth for their amusement while the Masses occupy tubes in space. He has his head buried so far up his backside I am surprised he has not asphyxiated himself yet.
just gets weirder by the minute
Just a guess, but he is semi-pulling peoples’ leg. This is a description of Agenda 2030, except the “space cities” are real cities, with limited population, and areas out side the agricultural zone off limits to all but elites. The feudalism model, with about the same world population as the middle ages.
You can bet, those in the colonies will be required to pay for their AIR and everything else. They will be subject to very tight regulations and restrictions, including extreme restrictions on reproduction. Meanwhile the owners/ rulers/elites will be living in their country manors (300,000+ acres) on earth. Elites will have access to every kind of luxury, and free travel to every resort.
Those in the Colonies, will, as a special privilege be permitted to staff those resorts and manors (as long as they keep their masks/muzzles on). The staff and their children will also be permitted the additional privilege of fulfilling the guests EVERY whim.
I would have no problem with an O’Neil colony as long as it not set up as the ultimate concentration camp.
Poor deluded fool. Mankind won’t last long enough.
He said millions of people will be living in space. But there are BILLIONS of people on earth. Hmmmm.
Well, Jeff, sugar you are not God and you don’t get to decide in the end who lives and who dies ~ AND FOR SURE YOU HAVE NO INPUT INTO PEOPLES ETERNAL DESTINY! AS THE CHURCH WOMAN (DANA CARVEY SP?) USED TO SAY ~ YOU’RE GOING TO GO TO HAY -ELL!
However something like bezos came into being is what needs to be looked at and remedied. Didn’t Amazon become successful through govt tax injections and incentives? Which would mean the root of the disease is as usual political corruption!