Despite Tuesday’s flight, Jeff Bezos is running out of time to save Blue Origin
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#2(in re: "put heavy industry in space")
Bezos is theoretically right about all of this.
Re: Despite Tuesday’s flight, Jeff Bezos is running out of time to save Blue Origin
#3> What the legion critics of Bezos and Blue Origin miss is that the company legitimately has the goal of ultimately saving planet Earth
Does it? I feel like we've seen tons of companies advertise lofty humanist goals, only to back away from them and declare "Actually we're a business and we serve our customers. It's not our job to save the world."
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#4> What the legion critics of Bezos and Blue Origin miss is that the company legitimately has the goal of ultimately saving planet Earth Does it? I feel like we've seen tons of companies advertise lofty humanist goals, only to back away from them and declare "Actually we're a business and we serve our customers. It's not our job to save the world."
Find a company that when asked if their goal is “saving planet earth” they respond “no” - very few!
Maybe Sherwin Williams with their slogan?
Even Exxon Mobile will say the same. You have to look at the details and what they actually do.
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#5If Jeff Bezos claims to do anything for any reason other than his ego or net worth I will need to see it to believe it.
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#6 "projects in the works to support moving heavy industry from the surface of our planet into space. ... To set humanity on this environmentally sustainable path"
Re: Despite Tuesday’s flight, Jeff Bezos is running out of time to save Blue Origin
#7> What the legion critics of Bezos and Blue Origin miss is that the company legitimately has the goal of ultimately saving planet Earth Does it? I feel like we've seen tons of companies advertise lofty humanist goals, only to back away from them and declare "Actually we're a business and we serve our customers. It's not our job to save the world."
They're confusing Bezos with Musk. Musk is revolutionizing the adoption of solar energy and non-petroleum vehicles, and even has a goal of liberating humanity from Earth itself. Lofty, and becoming so real. Not to mention Spacex/starlink and the implications for a truly global internet, _serious_ space travel, ...
Name one thing Bezos is doing that isn't about himself. I liked his "thank you" to Amazon customers (I for sure helped get him into space) -- but it was simultaneously very off-putting, and I'm not surprised he's completely blind to that reaction. Kudos to him for his success, which I respect, but I find nothing about him to admire.
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#8(in re: "put heavy industry in space") Bezos is theoretically right about all of this. Apart from minor implementation details like the laws of thermodynamics, sure.
The fifth law of thermodynamics: thou shalt not go to space?
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#9Has he some how gone bankrupt? I can't help but feel if he wants to keep Blue Origin running, he could use a handful of the cash he has laying around one of his mansions. or one of his yachts. or his Texas launch complex. Pretty sure he could bank roll Blue Origin for decades without seeing any significant hit to his personal wealth.
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#10Yet another in a number of Bezos fluff pieces I’ve seen in the last few days.
Oh, he wants to save the planet? Maybe his garbage spewing engine named Amazon could do something there.
Bezos is smart enough to know the odds of him saving Earth or an asteroid hitting in 30 years are about even odds right now, so sure, sell that but also figure by then he’ll be too old to miss out.
Humans sure love to live in the fantasy that humanity is forever well they needlessly consume the only planet known for certain to support their biology.