Bezos has actually been preaching the same stuff about space as Musk since high school. Needing to get humanity off of earth and wanting to be the one to do it,

Bezos has actually been preaching the same stuff about space as Musk since high school. Needing to get humanity off of earth and wanting to be the one to do it, etc etc. I only know this because he graduated from the same high school as me (20 years before me), and I did some googling one day. He was the class valedictorian, and while his entire speech isn't transcribed anywhere I know of, The Miami Herald quoted sentences from various high school valedictorian speeches as part of a graduation article, and Jeff Bezos has a few sentences in there. The Miami Herald archives for 1982 don't seem to be loading for me, but a CNBC article [0] has it quoted. > ″[Bezos] wants to build space hotels, amusement parks, yachts and colonies for two or three million people orbiting around the earth,” the Herald’s article says. > ″‘The whole idea is to preserve the earth,’” he said, according to the newspaper, which notes of Bezos that his “final objective is to get all people off the earth and see it turned into a huge national park.” It's interesting to me how he was saying this in 1982 but instead went down the path of banking and then eventually Amazon. Yeah Blue Origin was founded in 2000, but like everyone else here is quipping, what has it actually accomplished? I have no basis for this, but I feel like his goals were: 1) Become the richest person in the world. 2) Use my money to lead humanity to space. He doesn't seem to be as good at goal 2 as goal 1. [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/31/amazon-jeff-bezos-proposed-colonizing-space-high-school-graduation-speech.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/31/amazon-jeff-bezos-proposed-c...