SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's lifetime goal of colonizing Mars: Why Jeff Bezos indirectly critiqued?
In a recent private discussion regarding his space company Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, the billionaire, also founder of Amazon, expanded on his grand vision on settling space.
But in doing so, he also pooh-poohed the main goal of perhaps his biggest rival: Elon Musk, and his rocket company SpaceX. In particular, Jeff Bezos indirectly critiqued Musk's lifetime goal of colonizing Mars.
If the SpaceX CEO wants to go live on Mars, he said, he should probably make sure he can actually handle the task first.
Musk has long since talked about his dream of putting humans on Mars using SpaceX rocket, a dream that Bezos shares as well. But while Musk believes it's the smartest and coolest way to ensure humanity's survival, Bezos is more concerned with the human race spreading and growing for the sake of progress.
Jeff Bezos also put his remarks during a private lecture last month. In that private conversation, Bezos mostly focused on his ambitions with his own rocket company, Blue Origin, and his goal of making space a place for human who could live and work.
"The solar system can support a trillion humans," Bezos said. "Then we'd have 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins. Think how incredible and dynamic that civilization will be."
The thing is, Elon Musk also said, there's a 70% chance he's going to move to Mars. He wants to be on one of the earliest trips to the red planet, after a visit to the Moon first of course. Apparently, that comment seems to have ticked off Bezos. He seems to think Musk is just all bravado and no base.
"We have sent robotic probes now to every planet in this solar system, and this is the best one," Bezos said of Earth.
In this video, Engineering Today will discuss Elon Musk dream of putting humans on Mars. How humans can terraform the red planet? Why Jeff Bezos does not think that Musk should colonize Mars?
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