co-host Gayle King in an exclusive interview after he landed back on Earth Tuesday."When you get into space and you can see the Earth's atmosphere, it's so thin and fragile looking. So we do have to take care of this planet. And right now it's just true that our civilization is — we pollute the planet.""This sounds fantastical, what I'm about to tell you, but it will happen.
It will take decades to get there, Bezos acknowledged, but he cited the technological advances that have happened since the Wright Brothers took their first flight in 1903. "If you told somebody, 'One day there will be a 787,' it would seem fantastical. But that is what happens. And we do need to move heavy industry off Earth. Because this is the best planet. We've been to all the planets in this solar system with robotic probes — this is the good one," Bezos said.
The Amazon and Blue Origin founder insisted that his efforts in space are not in competition with fellow billionaire Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic, who launched himself into space nine days before Bezos. Both companies plan to start filling spaceflights with wealthy passengers in the near future.
"It is not a competition," Bezos said, adding that he believes there will be hundreds or even thousands of entrepreneurial space companies in the future."They compete against each other, but there can be many winners."
Big deal straight up and straight back. Yawn.
Oh so we’ll just pollute another planet instead, easy peasy xxx
We ruined our community with garbage and pollution, then our states, our countries, our continents, and our oceans; now the asshat wants to destroy other planets.