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Jeff Bezos wants to save Earth by moving industry to space
- perfunctory 7y agoAre we supposed to take this seriously? I mean, a nerd inside me wants to cheer this - sure, let's go colonize solar system. But as a realist looking at the ticking clock of looming environmental catastrophe - can we have a more realistic plan to "save Earth" please?
- mimixco 7y agoThis is typical transhumanist nonsense, redolent of billionaires who are totally disconnected from the reality of regular people on this planet. The last cost estimate I saw for sending something to the moon was on the order of $50K per kilogram. Assuming people could go to the moon[0], that means water would cost $50K per kilo, food would have this cost, etc. The economics of people residing on the moon are beyond comprehension. Creating a "lunar lander" (and supposedly getting government funds for doing so) isn't going to fix that. [0] I'm not convinced we can make this assumption. The Van Allen radiation belts could nuke everyone who makes the journey and NASA hasn't explained how we would shield people from that.