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Jeff Bezos on the future of humans in space

• AstralStorm 10y ago
  Space rated nuclear reactors? Seriously Bezos, do your research, both RTG and uranium ones are used in space right now. (the latter mostly old soviet) I hope he actually meant nuclear propulsion instead.
  • perseusprime11 10y ago
    I think he is trying to compete for attention while Elon is out busy troubleshooting the most recent SpaceX explosion. The irony is that if Jeff joins hands with Elon, they may actually be able to colonize Mars sooner but that's not how free markets and competition work is it...
    • gremlinsinc 10y ago
      yeah imagine if Elon, Richard Branson, and Bezos combined forces and open sourced everything they discover in relation to space travel -- totally democratizing it. -- We'd get a lot further in half the time...my money's on Elon getting there first though.
      • perseusprime11 10y ago
        I agree with you. Elon will get there first. You need a gorilla mindset to get to Mars and he has it over Jeff Bezos.
      • pc2g4d 10y ago
        I wonder about this. Without the profit motive / investor dollars, would anything ever get done?
  • Nors 10y ago
    I think he meant propulsion. He mentioned that (paraphrasing) "it gets difficult the farther away form the Sun you go", which wouldn't be an issue for power generation for internal closed systems. Let's go Bezos. Ressurect Project Orion.
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