Must be fun being able to say crazy shit and have news articles written about it.
Right? Anyone else his age says that shit people say Okay Grandpa, let’s get you off to bed.
Musk does about the same. It seems you just need to be a billionaire
You can too!
Just gotta put it in a manifesto and do something horrible.
Im going to ask an LLM to write me a manifesto and pick a target.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Man, I’m SO glad newspapers don’t tell the whole world whenever I say something stupid. That would be really embarrassing.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Start the reactor, Quaid!
Let’s send the billionaires first so they can show us!
First Katy Perry and all the Kardashians.
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.
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.
I think all the belters had health issues due to their height
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.
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
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
I ain’t going…
Lead by example, Jeff.
More proof that the ultra wealthy don’t exist in reality.
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.
Why would the robots commute
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.
Communication with these parasites is one-directional. They spew garbage and we get rained on.
How has such an idiot talker been able to accumulate such indecent amount of resources?
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
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.
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…
Yea, maybe they should show we can grow food and mone water ice on a large enough scale first. But, millions even in 50 years seems unlikley given the pace things have gone.
Highly doubt many will live there, if anything it will have a couple of research stations like Anctartica .
