Space & Astronomy

Jeff Bezos: trillions of humans could one day live in giant space stations

By T.K. Randall
December 17, 2023

Image: AI-generated (Bing AI / Dall-E 3) With the Earth's population now at 8 billion people and growing, it stands to reason that, sooner or later, we are going to outstrip our planet's capacity to support us.

When that happens, colonizing space is going to be critical to both the long-term survival and continued expansion of our civilization.

During a recent interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, Jeff Bezos - the billionaire founder of Blue Origin and former CEO of Amazon - expressed his views on what such a future might look like.

Interestingly, he didn't seem to think that colonizing other worlds was the answer. Instead, he favored the idea of humans living in gigantic cylindrical space stations.

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

"The planetary surfaces are just way too small."

Bezos also believes that, in the future, the Earth might become something of a holiday destination to which visitors would travel in a similar way to how people currently visit Yellowstone National Park.

His views are in stark contrast to those of rival Elon Musk who has firmly set his sights on colonizing other planets with Mars remaining the focus of his long-term ambitions.

Who knows, perhaps one day they will both be proven right.

Source: Yahoo! News

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