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Question: what’s the financial endgame for these ventures? Is there some financial benefit (other than government spending) for going to the moon?
by putzdown 3y ago
Question: what’s the financial endgame for these ventures? Is there some financial benefit (other than government spending) for going to the moon?
- bryanlarsen 3y agoBezos & Blue Origin's end game is to try and set up an industrial economy in space. It's a long game, Bezos does not expect to live long enough to see it. Bezos was heavily influenced by the work of Gerard O'Neill while at Princeton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_K._O%27Neill#Space_colonization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_K._O%27Neill#Space_colo...
- shmde 3y agoI really hope the earth gets obliterated before any of that happens.
- shadowfox 3y agoCurious, what about that triggers your wish for mass extinction events?
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoSocialized suicidality