Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, successfully launched a rocket at Blue Shepard New Origin. This success paved the way for the public who paid for tickets, to later experience the same thing. But Jeff Bezos ’mission is actually much bigger than that.
Bezos dreams that in the future, humans will live in outer space, aka build colonies there. This is also stated in the vision of Blue Origin.
“To protect the Earth, Blue Origin believes that humanity needs to expand, explore, find new sources of energy and materials and move the Earth’s oppressive industry into space,” Blue Origin wrote.
Bezos once expressed his ambition to one day be able to build a very large human dwelling structure. Each of these structures can accommodate up to one million people.
Even the founder of Amazon once said that he wanted 1 trillion humans to be inhabitants of space colonies, some of them geniuses.
"The solar system can help 1 trillion people and then we will have 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins. Think how amazing and dynamic this civilization is," Bezos said in New York in 2019.
"But if we want to have it, we have to get out of the solar system. You have to catch more sunlight and we're going to use all the resources that are in space in terms of minerals and not just energy. It's very doable, but we have to start. "he said.
"One of the first steps is that we need to make aviation vehicles that are cheap, easy to repair and reusable. This is an expensive step. That's why Blue Origin is focusing on it. I really want a civilized and dynamic life for us children and grandchildren," he added at the time. .
According to Bezos, future generations must leave planet Earth in order to live freely. "We can have a trillion people in the solar system, a thousand Mozarts, a thousand Einsteins, that's the world I want our children and grandchildren to live in," Bezos said.
Bezos became interested in the outer space world after humans landed on the Moon in 1969. He also had ambitions to build permanent human settlements there before expanding them further.
"It's time to go back to the Moon. It's time to stay. When we do, we will realize that the Moon is a very useful place to build all the things we will use to explore the Solar System," Bezos explained.
"We really have to think about how to build space colonies, giant colonies. Rivers, lakes and so on. We're going to do it with space data sources, not lift them off Earth. And that's where we're going to go to host 1 trillion people, "he said
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