Jeff Bezos’s huge ambitions for space include floating colonies with weather like ‘Maui on its best day, all year long’

Jeff Bezos speaks in front of a model of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander, Thursday, May 9, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

  • Jeff Bezos on Thursday unveiled the Blue Moon lunar lander, a giant vehicle that can deliver payloads to the moon’s surface, created by his space company Blue Origin.
  • In his presentation he also discussed ambitions to put up to a trillion people in space with O’Neill colonies, spinning cylinders meant to replicate gravity, orbit the Earth, and sustain human life.
  • “This is Maui on its best day, all year long,” he said, according to The Guardian. “No rain. No earthquakes. People are going to want to live here.”
  • Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill came up with the idea in 1976, when he said read more >>>

    Source : BusinessInsider.Com

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