Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says ‘millions of people’ will be living in space by 2045—and robots will commute on our behalf to the moon
https://fortune.com/2025/10/15/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-says-millions-of-people-will-be-living-in-space-by-2045-we-will-have-robots-commuting-to-the-moon/
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dumbass@aussie.zone · 117 pts · 309d
Must be fun being able to say crazy shit and have news articles written about it.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 309d
Right? Anyone else his age says that shit people say Okay Grandpa, let's get you off to bed.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 309d
Musk does about the same. It seems you just need to be a billionaire
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 309d
You can too!
Just gotta put it in a manifesto and do something horrible.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 309d
Im going to ask an LLM to write me a manifesto and pick a target.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 309d
You should buy ALL of the ice cream at a McDonald's and just eat ice cream until you pass out in a pile of regurgitated ice cream various types of ice cream in various stages of thawing, and of course two dozen copies of your manifesto on the evils of eating pork. Make sure it's at least a couple hundred pages long and then make a hard pivot with no explanation like 20 pages from the end to blaming the people of the Sentinel Islands for all of the world's problems, and then somehow tie it back into the pork thing.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 309d
I'm cool with the LLM doing the manifesto. But surely you know one oligarch or pedo that deserves the Luigi treatment. Hell maybe get yourself a two for one special. I know of a very wealthy, very powerful pedo thats all over the news. Surely you can "scope" one out.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 81 pts · 309d
He realizes that's only 20 years from now, right?
The infrastructure to support millions would have to already have begun construction like a could decades ago already for that to be remotely plausible.
It takes like 3+ years just to make a 6 episode tv show about space these days...
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 36 pts · 309d
Lol, my dude thinks we're going to have millions of people in space before California finishes their high speed rail project, the project that was started 10 years ago....
You give a guy billions of dollars because he figured out how to put Barnes and Noble out of business and he suddenly thinks he's a genius at everything.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 309d
To give the devil his due, Bezos's business strategy to grow Amazon was well thought out and well-executed. It also involved exploiting the shit out of his warehouse workers and plenty of sleaze, but Bezos actually knew what he was doing.
Bullshit like this announcement makes me think he's run out of ideas, though.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 309d
The point being that him being good at worker exploitation, and getting extremely lucky with his heavy use of massively leveraging his business for decades doesn't make him good at rocket science or predicting the feasibility of putting large populations in space.
Especially since, Blue Origin, his rocket company, started 25 years ago and only managed to make a rocket that brings 6 people up to the very edge of space without actually going into it for a couple minutes before coming back down, in that time.
elfin8er@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 309d
He didn't even do that.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 309d
It took around 5 years to build a large Amazon hub near me which is just now opening but he thinks we'll somehow have millions of people living in space in 4x that time despite not having the capability to do even a miniscule fraction of that now. I think he's trying to be Elon Musk from 10 years ago and doing a terribly embarrassing job of it.
M1ch431@slrpnk.net · 58 pts · 309d
I always felt like when Amazon acquired The Expanse that it was likely Bezo's fantasy to have an underclass of chronically ill, resource-starved people in space - to serve his interests and make him richer.
Glad to know I wasn't off-base.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 309d
I thought the only ones chronically ill while not on actual planets were a subset of the rock hoppers who stayed long-term on moon stations?
e: I mean the guy definitely thought the wrong people were the good guys, but I'll take twice as many seasons and try not to peer too hard into the sausage factory, thanks.
ChexMax@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 309d
I think all the belters had health issues due to their height
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 308d
Early on Tom Jane gets made fun of for his spinal surgery, but I think it was only relevant in that scene because the guys were rock hoppers and they were on Ceres which has more significant gravity than most of the belt. I may have misinterpreted, though.
ChexMax@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 307d
Oof it's been a long time but I thought a lot of the OPA had tattoos on their necks to obscure their surgery scars, I thought it was common. Though maybe it's different between the book and the show?
And is Tom Jane a typo? I don't remember that character. Omg just googled it. I was like, I think that happened to Miller? But how could Tom Jane be an autocorrect for Miller?? And it's his actors name lmao
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 307d
Oh yeah lol I was having trouble remembering the character's and I knew him from a bunch of other stuff before the show came out
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 36 pts · 309d
We don't need to live in space. Space is not naturally habitable by humans. We just need to stop fucking up the one planet that is.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 309d
We are living in space. On a giant spaceship.
x00z@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 308d
That's what they said about the oceans!!! But look at me now, floating around on the waters, for no fucking reason.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 309d
More proof that the ultra wealthy don't exist in reality.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org · 32 pts · 309d
Robots commuting to the moon.
Robots.
Commuting.
To the moon.
This is the most extreme case of affluenza I've ever seen. Let's pray that it's terminal.
Evotech@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 308d
Why would the robots commute
dellish@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 308d
Man, I'm SO glad newspapers don't tell the whole world whenever I say something stupid. That would be really embarrassing.
jontree255@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 309d
More proof that billionaires are completely detached from reality.
brax@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 308d
Let's send the billionaires first so they can show us!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 308d
First Katy Perry and all the Kardashians.
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 309d
The largest spaceship today is the falcon heavy with a payload of just over 140k lbs. To make the math easy let's say the falcon can lift 1000 people into space at a time.
If "millions of people" means 2 million people then we would need to launch 1000 people into space twice per week for 20 years. So 8 fully loaded falcon heavys per month for 240 months straight.
So.... No. We will not have millions of people in space any time soon.
Chiarottide@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 308d
Maybe he uses the GOP definition of people: Frozen embryos. That would drop the weight way down
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 308d
Just count every sperm cell a man has as a future person, since eggs seem to almost count as people already.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 308d
I launched 2 million people into your mom last night
geekwithsoul@piefed.social · 22 pts · 309d
I went into this article expecting the space thing to be the most unhinged thing Bezos said. But nope, it was the above quote. Insane wealth is a helluva drug.
stefenauris@pawb.social · 22 pts · 309d
He must be high from all the money he's swimming in
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 308d
with his plastic barbie wife too.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 309d
I was told we'd have personal jetpacks by the year 2000, yet all we got was the y2k bug and shitty cars. So I will take what Daft Bozos says with a pinch of salt and also take this time to call him a cunt.
Bozos, you're a CUNT.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 309d
I.
WANT.
MY.
FUCKING.
JETPACK.
borth@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 309d
Can't fucking help himself but think of how to get richer. He just came out and said it with his little unrelated example: "this is so we can get richer"... Who's "we"? They want you to think it could one day be you, but we know that's the opposite of what they think.
Must be so fucking hard to imagine a technological advance that doesn't make you richer as priority #1, but helps people instead.
unmagical@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 309d
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 308d
Lead by example, Jeff.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 309d
Nope
Not happening, and not even close.
We still don't have a first moon base, and no idea how to even build one that'll last.
First you'll need a proof of concept base, it'll take you a good decade to get that done
Then, millions? Any idea how many tickets that is?
The richer, the dumber
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 308d
Ketamine is a great drug.
But Musk's disciples believe we will one day be walking around on planets and moons with no air, and temperatures 100x more extreme than parts of earth no one can live in.
These are simple people, the common clay of the new space...
...you know, morons.
rozodru@piefed.social · 3 pts · 308d
And on top of all this does he think we just send astronauts up to space to live in the ISS for extended periods of time all willy nilly? Or hell just sending people to the moon, that was just "ok, you're going to to the moon tomorrow, pack your bags" no. It takes months if not years of training to get someone used to living in zero g for extended periods of time. Us silly meatbags need something called gravity to live. You can't just shoot someone out into space and say "have at it". So whose going to train these millions of people? There's no artificial gravity spinny things on ships to do that. there's hardly any on the moon.
And then what if these people want to go back to Earth for a visit? it wouldn't work. Look at Astronauts who have been on the ISS for an extended period of time when they come back. They can't walk, they look like they're going to pass out. So everytime these millions of people decide to return for a visit they also have to spend time getting help to get used to being on Earth again? no way, that's not happening. You would literally have to set up some sort of hospitals specifically for this and then train and hire a massive amount of people who deal only with getting people used to dealing with gravity again. 2045? be real jeffy boy.
I mean again the people who are floating around in space right now are specifically selected and are in peak physical condition. The ONLY way it would maybe work is if we managed to develop a form of artifical gravity and right now that's science fiction. OR you set up a colony on Mars and right now that's a one way trip. and I've seen/read/played a lot of media where one way mars colony trips never work out well in the long run.
Plus there's a massive Dragon on Mars....
DevoidWisdom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 308d
Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social · 14 pts · 309d
This is your brain on sycophancy.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus · 13 pts · 309d
BakerBagel@midwest.social · 5 pts · 309d
He's so detached from reality that he thinks he can do it all by himself.
pyre@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 308d
when will we just tell these people to shut the fuck up and that we don't care what they think? I've never heard a tech billionaire say anything remotely smart for decades now.
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 308d
Communication with these parasites is one-directional. They spew garbage and we get rained on.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 309d
Billionaires get all the best drugs
Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 308d
Putting a million people in space would require ten of thousand of launches if they were Boeing 737s carrying the people.
Housing a million people in space would require technology that won't exist in 20 years let alone in time to have it built in 20 years.
This kind of shit is just so fucking stupid.
It takes them 2 years to build an Amazon warehouse in fucking Michigan. We're supposed to believe they're going to build space stations to support a million people in 20 years?
Who is this stupid? Who believes this shit?
echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 308d
Honestly it will be lucky if we have anyone permanently inhabiting the moon in 20 years. The Artemis program is our best bet and frankly that's a pipe dream.
selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 308d
If that guys in charge, I would assume those millions are being forced to work in 'Mars in Total Recall' conditions. Basically slave labor in abhorrent conditions with food/air being withheld when you don't slave away hard enough.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 305d
Start the reactor, Quaid!
devolution@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 308d
When you shit money like diarrhea, saying stupid shit becomes common place.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 308d
That's 20 years and utterly ridiculous
sircac@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 308d
How has such an idiot talker been able to accumulate such indecent amount of resources?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 308d
Jeffy watches too much science fiction where at some point in history, massive rockets to space became free and people stopped breathing oxygen.
Chessmasterrex@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 308d
Highly doubt many will live there, if anything it will have a couple of research stations like Anctartica .
stoly@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 309d
LOL that's not how capitalism works and let's face it: countries aren't interested in space programs anymore
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 308d
He looks absolutely ridiculous with the cowboy hat.
All hat, no cattle.
ZeroCool@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 309d
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 6 pts · 309d
Yay Elysium!!!! I ALWAYS wanted that movie to be the dystopia we ended up with! It seemed TOO realistic.
Except the med beds will just be normal health care.
Fermion@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 309d
Elysium had it backwards. The billionaires don't want to live in space leaving the workers to live in poverty on the surface. The billionaires want the workers to run space factories while they turn the earth into a big hunting reserve.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 4 pts · 309d
Other than the whole "factories being in space" thing I could see where they might enjoy that.
But given the environment in 2045, I'm guessing it's going to be a lot closer to Elysium than Planet Hunt
DrSleepless@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 309d
Jeff Bezos says a lot of things
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 309d
Millionsmillionaires will be living in space.Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 308d
REMEMBER even star trek went through a ww3 with 600mil dead to finally get into space.
echodot@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 308d
Oh is he going to build a space elevator or something?
Even if we had cheap safe reliable rocket launchers (Which I think SpaceX is fairly adequately demonstrated that we do not have) millions of people wouldn't be living on the moon in 20 years. It took decades after the invention of the jetliner before millions of people were doing transatlantic flights, and as unpleasant as Florida can be, it's a lot more survivable than the moon (probably).
These idiots say so much crap, why are we reporting on it?
northernlights@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 309d
Uh oh, did he get on the ketamine wagon too
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 308d
on the ped/roids
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 308d
Doubt
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 308d
I don't think we have the capacity to launch a million people into orbit in 20 years, let alone all the stuff they need. I mean, 1 million people weigh about 150 million pounds, and that's just meat and bones. .
etherphon@midwest.social · 4 pts · 309d
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 309d
It depends on the type of work and how comfortable you are with sloppy seconds
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 309d
Look at me say the exact same thing and be thrown out the pub
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 309d
Has JetBlue ever had an orbital flight? Or was he planning to use SpaceTwitter?
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 308d
I don't care if any people live in space in 20 years but I would like to launch Bezos, Musk and a few others there.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 309d
Did he join scientology already?
maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 307d
I ain’t going…
kbal@fedia.io · 1 pts · 309d
Hooba-dooba-dooba!
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 1 pts · 309d
Who is going to live in space to do all menial shit they won't do themselves? Long list of applicants for space plumbers, janitors, trash collectors?
etherphon@midwest.social · 2 pts · 309d
x00z@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 308d
Just like most of the other capitalist structures: Make the alternative seem worse.
llama@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 308d
And what the heck are people going to do in space? How will they even get their Amazon packages?