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[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 87 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Why the FUCK would I want to be living in space? Bitch, the food air water and gravity are HERE.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

But in space amazon can own them!

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because tech billionaires can charge money for all of that in space!

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 51 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

"I believe, in the next couple of decades, there will be millions of people living in space. That's how fast this is going to accelerate," he said.

Jeff Bezos has been saying this stuff for a while. It's not clear whether he's just hyping his rockets, but he seems genuinely delusional and detached from reality. I remember an interview in which he was beside himself with enthusiasm for the idea that humanity was going to spread billions of people throughout the whole solar system. To most of us it's not clear why this is supposed to be a good thing, especially if these people will all be abused by mega corporations like Amazon. And it's utterly impossible. Besides, most people would prefer to do anything at all to try to save Earth from the ravages of capitalists like Bezos. But of course these techbro assholes prefer to live in sci-fi fantasies than actually have to pay their workers and their taxes and clean up their pollution.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

We should shoot his ass into space in the Apollo 13 capsule with all the manuals, and let him know that he has to safely navigate it around the moon and back to earth by himself, and if he does, we'll let him live.

He'll die within 2 days

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[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 months ago

If he meant it, he would be pumping more resources into Blue Origin's Orbital Reef space station concept instead of sitting around and waiting for NASA to fund it. Vast is planning to launch a little 4 person private space station next year. Blue should have been way ahead of them.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Jeff, my boy: Newsflash β€” humanity has ALWAYS lived in space. We’ve got an awesome orbital station that manages food, climate, entertainment, and almost everything else we’ve ever needed.

Are you calling for us to abandon ship for an inferior product?

[–] RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

One wholly owned, serviced, and supplied by Amazon.

But don’t worry. Orbital Prime is only $999 a year and includes unlimited deliveries and six return trips to land. (For now)

[–] mech@feddit.org 3 points 5 months ago

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[–] TheV2@programming.dev 24 points 5 months ago

Why did Jeff Bezos not distribute his earthly posessions across the world to everyone already? He will live in space soon anyway.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

"Jeff bezos says" has the same level of legitimacy as people going "as a mother". Yeah he's rich but he's also mind numbingly stupid. Why do I care about anything he has to say because none of it is reasonable logical or relevant.

Is rocket doesn't even get above the karmen line and takes about six people at a time. How are millions of people even going to get into space with that kind of transport system?

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Let's at least hate accurately. Blue Origin is working on a ton of stuff, just super slowly. Their orbital rocket, New Glenn, should have its 2nd launch in a few weeks. They're working on a space station, Orbital Reef, but I have no idea what the timeline is. They're also allegedly working on an orbital crew capsule, but that has almost zero public info.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago

Hey Jeff, being good at buying something for a dollar and selling it for two doesn't mean you're a genius. Salesmen shouldn't be giving advice like that.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 5 months ago

"I don't understand why people on the verge or starvation and ruin aren't happy with me indulging in pointless ego-projects?"

He's a cunt

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 16 points 5 months ago

I long for days when tech CEOs weren't so vocally obsessed with space, such that taking about space development could lead to interesting discussion of what a realistic timeframe actually is and what progress can be made, rather than just an assumption that one is a Musk or Bezos fanboy that actually believes we can do the work of centuries in 20 years somehow by giving the people that aready have too much money, even more money.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

In Space!!

where slavery laws don't exist
[–] teft@piefed.social 14 points 5 months ago

Soonβ„’

[–] Pondis@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He would make breathable air a subscription based service and I'm not for it.

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[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Jeff Bezos ~~Says He~~ Doesn't Understand ~~Why Anybody Alive Now Would Be 'Discouraged'β€”Because Soon, 'Millions Of People Will Be Living In Space'~~

Fixed that headline.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

I guess this means he's going to give all his Amazon employees a pay raise equivalent to his own salary so that everyone will be equally financially able to travel to space.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 5 months ago (5 children)

So, I'm not digging through all my comments to find it, but I've said a while back they're planning to take the money, colonize space and take enough regular people to be slaves and leave the rest of us here to deal with the mess they made.

God only knows the mess they can make here, while making a worse mess of Earth and maybe the galaxy.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

antarctica is like a billion times nicer than space, and they're not moving there, are they?

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

They have to finish warming the planet enough to thaw Antarctica before they move there and start mining it

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago

its also the driest desert on earth. its free real estate.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 9 points 5 months ago

Nah, they'll stay where it's best for a person to be, which is on earth. Space is a great place to visit but it's not gonna be a more pleasant place to stay than earth for a long time if ever

[–] thegr8goldfish@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So you're saying they're Gou'lds, then? Who has Stargate future on their doomsday bingo card?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 5 months ago

Robert Heinlein or some other sci-fi writer wrote about it in the 60s or 70s, and the ruling class seems intent on using dystopian sci-fi as instruction manuals, so sure, pick your character from any tale.

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[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean, they are stupid cocaine-brained man-children, but it would be history's greatest fuckup to *choose * space over Earth. No matter how much we manage to fuck it up, it will always be more suitable for life than space or mars.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 10 points 5 months ago

no. no they won't. it won't happen until we can manufacture in space with automation. We will need to be close to mechanisms that can manufacture themselves for it to be doable.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 months ago

Obligatory: Mars for the Rich, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

you first, dickhead.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Ok sure but will I be able to afford food?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 5 months ago

You will have a shock collar and like it.

[–] 10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you can order your daily ration of amazon goo from amazon neural interface.

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[–] spacecadet@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

The video of him with William Shatner after Shatner just touched down from his space trip will make you hate Bezos even more than you already do, I guarantee it

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 5 months ago

Billionaries love to huff their petrid farts.

[–] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No they won't Jeff, fuck you and shut up.

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Probably because that doesn't pay for rent, gas, groceries, clothes, utilities, bills, or healthcare. Are you accepting "will live in space soon" as payment on your website, Jeff? No? Well fuck off then.

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago

Billionaires are so delusional

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Unless I'm on a federation starship I don't want to live in space. I want to live on earth where my species belongs

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

isnt me or bezos is taking alot of PEDs right now. he doesnt want to be seen a scrawny tech ceo.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They're all into body modification. Musk is taking HGH and that's why his chest is like that.

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[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Millions of people.... On a planet of billions.

Wasn't there a Matt Damon movie about that?

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[–] OldGrayDog@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 5 months ago

Everyone is missing the point, the extreme rich will be living in space as they continue to rape the earth of all its resources for their own sick pleasure.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 3 points 5 months ago
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