Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405https://youtu.be/DcWqzZ3I2cY?si=85_pqiaCNJBCMEOMI would love to see, you know,
a trillion humans living
in the solar system.
If we had a trillion humans,
we would have at any given
time a thousand Mozarts
and a thousand Einsteins.
That would, you know, our solar
system would be full of life
and intelligence and energy.
And we can easily support
a civilization that large
with all of the resources
in the solar system.
- So what do you think that looks like?
Giant space stations?
- Yeah, the only way to get to that vision
is with giant space stations.
You know, the planetary
surfaces are just way too small.
So you can, I mean, unless you turn them
into giant space stations or something.
But, but yeah, we will take
materials from the moon
and from near earth objects
and from the asteroid belt
and so on, and we'll build
giant O'Neill style colonies
and people will live in those.
And they have a lot of advantages
over planetary surfaces.
You can spin them to get
normal earth gravity.
You can put them where you want them.
I think most people are
gonna wanna live near Earth,
not necessarily in earth
orbit, but in you know, earth,
but near earth vicinity orbits.
...
but they'll be able to
use much more energy
and much more material resource in space
than they would be able to use on earth.
- One of the interesting ideas you had
is to move the heavy
industry away from Earth.
So people sometimes have this idea
that somehow space
exploration is in conflict
with the celebration of the planet earth,
that we should focus on preserving earth.
And basically your ideas that space travel
and space exploration is
a way to preserve earth.
- Exactly.