Jeff Bezos says one trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical space stations

[WVK]

Artificial intelligence is more likely to save humanity than to destroy it, Jeff Bezos said recently. The billionaire also said he would like to see the human population grow to one trillion, with most people living in huge cylindrical space stations. 

In an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, the Amazon AMZN, +1.73%founder and former CEO rejected the idea that humans should colonize other planets, saying he believes building space colonies is the only way to achieve such population growth.  

“I would love to see a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have, at any given time, 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins,” he said. “The only way to get to that vision is with giant space stations. The planetary surfaces are just way too small.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jeff-bezos-plays-down-ai-dangers-and-says-a-trillion-humans-could-live-in-huge-cylindrical-space-stations-78058437

[Grim Reaper 6]

14 minutes ago, WVK said:

Artificial intelligence is more likely to save humanity than to destroy it, Jeff Bezos said recently. The billionaire also said he would like to see the human population grow to one trillion, with most people living in huge cylindrical space stations. 

In an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, the Amazon AMZN, +1.73%founder and former CEO rejected the idea that humans should colonize other planets, saying he believes building space colonies is the only way to achieve such population growth.  

“I would love to see a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have, at any given time, 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins,” he said. “The only way to get to that vision is with giant space stations. The planetary surfaces are just way too small.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jeff-bezos-plays-down-ai-dangers-and-says-a-trillion-humans-could-live-in-huge-cylindrical-space-stations-78058437

I think money could be much better spent searching the Galaxy for habitable planets that mankind can inhabit. Living in a space station is much more detrimental to human biology, and overall considering everything would need to be recycled it would be pretty nasty too.

JIMHO

[WVK]

3 hours ago, Grim Reaper 6 said:

I think money could be much better spent searching the Galaxy for habitable planets that mankind can inhabit. Living in a space station is much more detrimental to human biology, and overall considering everything would need to be recycled it would be pretty nasty too.

JIMHO

There is a lot that can go terribly wrong here on Earth before any of that is technically possible. 

[Dejarma]

anyone can say that.. I can say that- here ya go:

Dejarma says one trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical space stations.

Anyone can say loads of things- here ya go, here's another one:

eeeer, just thinking, give me a minute........................... Right yeah= a thousand humans could live IN the moon.

oh joy

[Waspie_Dwarf]

On 12/16/2023 at 1:14 AM, Dejarma said:

anyone can say that.. I can say that- here ya go:

Dejarma says one trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical space stations.

Anyone can say loads of things- here ya go, here's another one:

eeeer, just thinking, give me a minute........................... Right yeah= a thousand humans could live IN the moon.

oh joy

And do you own a company that manufactures launch vehicles and spacecraft? Are you putting $billions of your own wealth into making such plans happen?

If the answer to these questions is no then when Bezos says it his words carry vastly more credibility than when you say it.

[Dejarma]

5 minutes ago, Waspie_Dwarf said:

And do you own a company that manufactures launch vehicles and spacecraft? Are you putting $billions of your own wealth into making such plans happen?

If the answer to these questions is no then when Bezos says it his words carry vastly more credibility than when you say it.

calm down.. i'm just avin a bit of banter, nothing more... he could be right> i don't know-- we'll see won't we. Well you & i probably won't- we'll be long dead by then i guess😉

[Waspie_Dwarf]

4 hours ago, Grim Reaper 6 said:

I think money could be much better spent searching the Galaxy for habitable planets that mankind can inhabit. Living in a space station is much more detrimental to human biology, and overall considering everything would need to be recycled it would be pretty nasty too.

JIMHO

That maybe a great idea in a science fiction novel, but in the real world it's totally unrealistic. The fastest spacecraft we currently have would take tens of thousands of years to reach even the nearest star. We don't have the technology to reach for the stars just yet, but we already have space stations.

Even when we do have such technology the journey times will be decades or centuries, meaning that the very objections you have to space station life will exist for those venturing to these exoplanets. 

By the time we are capable of star travel we could already have the future Bezos envisages. 

[Waspie_Dwarf]

5 minutes ago, Dejarma said:

calm down.

I'm perfectly calm, thank you. If you don't like people calling you out on nonsense posts then don't make nonsense posts  it's very simple really. 

[Dejarma]

3 minutes ago, Waspie_Dwarf said:

I'm perfectly calm, thank you. If you don't like people calling you out on nonsense posts then don't make nonsense posts  it's very simple really. 

you're referring to nonsense posts in this place 😁 oh ok then---

why did you feel the need to call me out on it? And why did you feel a need to say ^this^ to me AFTER i've said it was just a bit of banter? you obviously have a problem with something/ somewhere somehow😕 eeer what is it? just out of interest

[Grim Reaper 6]

3 hours ago, Waspie_Dwarf said:

That maybe a great idea in a science fiction novel, but in the real world it's totally unrealistic. The fastest spacecraft we currently have would take tens of thousands of years to reach even the nearest star. We don't have the technology to reach for the stars just yet, but we already have space stations.

Good day Waspie_Dwarf and thanks for your quote. I realize that we currently do not have the ability to travel vast distances in our solar system or our galaxy. My comments were based upon the fact that we should spend more time and resources to find habitual planets and moons using our current technology which is space telescope displays. In my opinion the odds of mankind every traveling at light speed are slim, however, I do believe that an Einstein-Rosen bridge (wormhole) is a theoretical possible in the not-too-distant future. Since it has been proven that extreme gravity created by large heavy objects has the ability to bend / fold Space Time I think our scientific community invest more funding to increase our knowledge of the subject.

I believe the future of deep space travel will depend upon our ability to control and guide wormholes and I understand we have a very long way to go, but eventually this technology will be within our grasp and hopefully sooner rather then latter.

JIMHO

3 hours ago, Waspie_Dwarf said:

Even when we do have such technology the journey times will be decades or centuries, meaning that the very objections you have to space station life will exist for those venturing to these exoplanets. 

By the time we are capable of star travel we could already have the future Bezos envisages. 

 

[Cho Jinn]

We’ll have planet colonies long before giant O’Neil cylinders. They don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

[DreadLordAvatar]

Will never happen.  Humanity is so flawed, just look at the world we live today. Absolutely disgusting.  The mega rich like Bezos and first world governments are all in it for themselves. Narcissism, greed, corruption never changes.

Edited December 18, 2023 by DreadLordAvatar

[Tatetopa]

On 12/15/2023 at 4:57 PM, WVK said:

There is a lot that can go terribly wrong here on Earth before any of that is technically possible. 

We are beginning to sound like a scummy renter aren't we? Trash our house and rather than fix it up, just move.  I wonder if a renter that trashes his first house learns a lesson or just repeats his behavior?

[MissJatti]

To have a trillion people living in a space station, that space station would be bigger than the size of our sun. We would need schools, libraries, football stadiums and all that, (ect etc) for humans to survive, even in space, and by that time another trillion people..........!!!

Edited January 1 by MissJatti