Jeff Bezos plays down AI dangers and says a trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical space stations::The billionaire said people living in space could visit Earth on vacation.
Sorry, Earth is only for billionaires now. Proles get to live in space tubes.
Which is literally what Bezos wants. He wants to move “heavy industry” into space to “save earth”. He’d rather spend his money flying the poor’s into space to work and die than on anything that could save earth for everyone.
EAT! THE! MOTHER FUCKING! RICH! Before they sacrifice Earth.
The key word here is “could”. Just like billionaires “could” use their wealth and power to stop the destruction of the biosphere and free humanity from the shackles of wealth inequality.
It’d be a lot cooler if they did, but if they operated like that they wouldn’t be billionaires to begin with…
Billionaires: exists
Humanity: “Be a lot cooler if you didn’t”
While spending 75% of their earnings on a rent and the rest 25% on various subscriptions to continue functioning and enriching the multi trillion dollar corporations.
You will own nothing and be happy.
Imagine a world where AI helps 1 trillion people live in some sort of space station. Food is grown by AI, repairs/jobs are done by AI. All you can do is to chill & relax.
Yeah, I can’t imagine that too…
Our inability to increase the wealth of the elite will render us useless and therefor our ability to continue existing will end well before any of that happens
I assume we would be considered “homeless” then :)
This motherfucker mailed me the same blu-ray box set smashed to shards twice in a row before he finally put the third copy into some goddamn bubble wrap, and he wants me to trust his space station with my life!?
Says the guy who works his people so bad they have to pee in water bottles.
Bezos needs to put himself in one of Elon’s cylinders to go see outer space.
Preferably stay there if he makes it. He could defenetly live there if we send some battle racions sometimes
What do you think the people will be doing in his space cans?
Oh no
Yeah no way these space tubes will eventually be used as an object to throw at Jaburo.
Once all the proles are in space tubes, genocide is just a life support system malfunction away.
Or Dublin.
I like how they believe in these systems working yet the couldn’t handle the fact that many jobs can be done remotely…
You will commute from your home space cylinder complex to the office cubicle space cylinder complex. There is no other way the system works.
Power tripping CEO’s be like
Ignore wealth inequality, huff my farts. —Bezos
“Go slave your life away in my terrible space cans.”
So this is why Prime Video cancelled The Expanse… Don’t want those future Belters getting any ideas.
Taki, beratna!
Not going to read the article, because it’s bull, the only way humanity gets there are for mentally impaired people like him stop hoarding wealth. I’m sure if we totaled up everything spent on yachts and gave it to nasa, or some other public space entity, I would be typing this in one of those tubes.
I guess this is supposed to be the 99.9%’s last sacrifice to our 0.1% overlords before the world boils away? “Many of you will die making my space tube, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make. I also need 72 virgins for repopulation purposes.”
I prefer to go to Risa
More like Jeff Bozos, am I right?
No shit, Bezos. Did you just pick up a magazine from the 1980s with one of McCall’s paintings in it? We’ve been dreaming of cylindrical space stations for decades.
Sounds awful
Yeah but happily and healthily? And for how long? And what about all the studies showing the rapid degeneration of bone density and immune functions when in space?
That spaceship stuff is science FICTION for a reason.
So an O’Neil cylinder exploits rotation to simulate gravity. When set up properly it feels just like gravity we’re used to here on earth. That should at least help curb the effects of microgravity. Radiation shouldn’t be much of a problem as people would be living on the inside of the cylinder with meters of material between them and outer space.
And who’s paying to put all those gazillion bazillions of cubic tonnes of radiation shielding into space?
I bet it won’t be Jeff.
Not trying to defend Jeff here, but generally these kind of space megaprojects rely on manufacturing materials in space. I.e. capture an asteroid and use its material as the radiation shielding. Not that that’s currently anywhere near feasible ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah I read lots of sci-fi as a kid too. We’d be there by now except physics is a cruel and unyielding mistress.
