Jeff Bezos predicts that humans will one day live in space and that they will be born there, too, calling outer space their first home.
...and Earth, the home that we know and love today, will only be a resort that we visit during our holidays.
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Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos said that the line of thought sprung from the fact that the Earth is being degraded by humanity through overuse, and misuse of resources. He also has a message for humanity too: “This place is special, we can’t ruin it.”
According to Hindustan Times, the billionaire, who is also a self-funded space explorer, said this at the annual Ignatius Forum in Washington, DC.
He said that experts want to ensure that millions of people who work in space will work there, should also be born there, get jobs and call space as their first home. He predicted that people who live in space will come to visit Earth the way they visit national parks.
Bezos added that these colonies will be floating habitats in space that will have gravity and most other things present on Earth. He also strongly believes in the future, space colonies would even have their own rivers, forests, and wildlife.
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“This Earth can support, let’s say, 10 billion people to a certain degree. We’d have to work really hard to figure out how to do that without degrading the planet… The solar system can support a trillion people,” he said.
He also claimed that the continuously growing population of the human race would make it difficult to expand the living zones on Earth.
Living in space… is going to be very, very weird. What do you guys think of this?
By: Aishah Akashah Ahadiat
