Besides personal desire to do it, this could be seen as a traditional symbolic show of confidence in safety -- like an engineer standing under their new bridge, the first time vehicles go over it.
Show of confidence + skin in the game
Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
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#92An Elon / Jeff space willy-waving contest about who gets to be Space Bro Alpha seems like a net win for humanity
"net win for humanity" can be taken two ways. Elon / Jeff not making it back could also be considered a "win" even if dark. For the good they have done they have done a lot of damage to humanity on their way to become billionaires.
What damage did they do?
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Is it done with electricity? In that case it would be whatever the grip offers and probably the 'd pay the premium for renewables to keep their image.
No, hydrogen at an industrial scale is produced chemically from petroleum. The two steps are "shift reaction" and "steam reforming." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-gas_shift_reaction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_reforming The days of hydrogen being an efficient storage medium for solar or nuclear energy through electrolysis are far in the future.
Blue Origin doesn't need hydrogen at industrial scale. They could easily supply themselves with "green" hydrogen created via electrolysis.
Elon Musk has promised to eventually fuel Starship with synthetic "green" methane. Green hydrogen is a much simpler problem, so if Blue Origin hasn't yet made that promise, it's quite likely they will soon.
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Can you be specific on the subsidizing? Loaded comments without backed sources are intellectually lazy.
'google: "SpaceX subsidies" SpaceX gets almost $900 million in federal subsidies to deliver broadband to rural America https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/tech/spacex-starlink-subsidie... SpaceX just won $885 million in federal subsidies to expand Starlink, Elon Musk's satellite-internet project https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-just-won-do... In addition to that SpaceX is government contractor. SpaceX and…
$900 million = 5 days of federal food stamps spending
$3-4 billion = 3 weeks of federal food stamps spending
I know which I think is the better government expenditure
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#95An Elon / Jeff space willy-waving contest about who gets to be Space Bro Alpha seems like a net win for humanity
"net win for humanity" can be taken two ways. Elon / Jeff not making it back could also be considered a "win" even if dark. For the good they have done they have done a lot of damage to humanity on their way to become billionaires.
Could you be more specific? "A lot of damage to humanity" is a quite strong claim with deep ethical implications. I would prefer a concrete example of such an act.
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"net win for humanity" can be taken two ways. Elon / Jeff not making it back could also be considered a "win" even if dark. For the good they have done they have done a lot of damage to humanity on their way to become billionaires.
What damage did they do?
Manipulated the price of certain crypto, and monopolized e-commerce.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
'google: "SpaceX subsidies" SpaceX gets almost $900 million in federal subsidies to deliver broadband to rural America https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/tech/spacex-starlink-subsidie... SpaceX just won $885 million in federal subsidies to expand Starlink, Elon Musk's satellite-internet project https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-just-won-do... In addition to that SpaceX is government contractor. SpaceX and…
$900 million = 5 days of federal food stamps spending $3-4 billion = 3 weeks of federal food stamps spending I know which I think is the better government expenditure
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#99I was a bit shocked how Jeff Bezos looked in the video [0] in which he invited his brother to go with him. He does not look healthy, even a bit bloated. Does anyone know if he is having health issues? [0] https://www.instagram.com/p/CP0MSOqnYEo/
There’s an interesting trend I’ve seen where a lot of folks who were previously super health conscious, put on weight when they are in a relationship they enjoy. Anyone have a study or article of this phenomenon?
The chicken is an egg's way of making another egg. We are machines that work to attract mates, reproduce, and rear young. Once one has achieved the goal of attracting a mate, there's little need to devote energy to courtship displays - though perhaps more need to reserve energy in case of hardship. I might be being a little reductive though :)
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Manipulated the price of certain crypto, and monopolized e-commerce.
Yes, that crypto thing was a real damage for humanity.
The people who are hurt by dips whether artificial or not are invariably going to be new, small time investors.
Even if you think they shouldn't gamble with their money I find it hard to argue there was no damage done.