Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

cnbc.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

161–170 of 216 posts

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

#161

Post by luffapi »

ben_w wrote: post #155
luffapi wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you actually study history (not YouTube, history books) you’ll find starving people and human rights violations to be a common cause for revolution.

Books like this?: https://www.amazon.de/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Pol... “and” is pulling a lot of weight in your sentence, given I’ve not made a claim about general human rights on this thread. Also? “Common cause” is very different from “has a snowball’s chance in hell of succeeding”, which I consider important in this context.

No, not books like that. History books (not pop trash). Books like this:

https://www.amazon.com/French-Revolution-Enlightenment-Tyran...

Also, cf Japanese rice warehouses in early Tokyo and why they exist.

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

#162

Post by cma »

chasd00 wrote: post #109
peteretep wrote: post #13

An Elon / Jeff space willy-waving contest about who gets to be Space Bro Alpha seems like a net win for humanity

“Willy waving contest” is long over and, ironically, SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell is the winner. She’s a super hero in my book. Musk had the dream but she’s turning it into reality which is the hard part.

Her TED thing of point to point rocket travel cheaper than business class plane tickets by 2028 was just embarrassing.

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

#163

Post by scotth »

greenwich26 wrote: post #94
nabla9 wrote: post #89

Earlier 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

That's a pretty gross way of thinking. Yuck.

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

#164

Post by heartbeats »

luffapi wrote: post #137
ben_w wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hungry starving sick people make the least effective revolutionaries. They’re also not very good at spending money on consumer goods when they don’t have any, which Amazon absolutely needs. (Tesla needs a lot of people above average income, given their cheapest offering). And these two giants aren’t the only places people can work. (Not enough by itself, but still a massive improvement compared to the situation leadi…

> Hungry starving sick people make the least effective revolutionaries. This is clearly historically incorrect. > Super-rich as a class exists because we let them exist, but there is a reason we let them exist… What reason is that? They exist because they are powerful, thus hard to topple. That the SEC and FTC are so ineffective (and ridiculously small pieces of the puzzle) is evidence of that.

Sick, miserable people make terrible revolutionaries. Desperate and hungry people have nothing to lose. Poor people in the US are miserable, but not miserable enough to be desperate.

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

#165

Post by Cd00d »

_Microft wrote: post #23

I 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/

Isn't facial bloating a common side effect to zero-g training? I wouldn't be surprised if he's been spending time flying parabolas.

It's fun, he's got the resources, and there's a relative goal on the near-term.

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

#166

Post by paxys »

_Microft wrote: post #23

I 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/

Slightly bloated from pictures shared a year or two ago maybe, but he still looks very healthy for a 57 year old.

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

#167

Post by Opt_Out_Fed_IRS »

This will shut Musk very big and fat mouth.

Musk will not be able to comment on space anymore without journalists and reply people on Twitter asking why doesn't he go to space too.

And no, 99% of people don't know the difference between higher orbit and what Bezos is doing.

This is really smart from Bezos, he's recapturing the narrative of space and sucking air out of Musk baloon

If he ups the dose of TRT/HGH he'd pretty soon mock Musk because he can't go due to him being obese.

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

#168

Post by HaggardFinical »

cma wrote: post #162
chasd00 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Willy waving contest” is long over and, ironically, SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell is the winner. She’s a super hero in my book. Musk had the dream but she’s turning it into reality which is the hard part.

Her TED thing of point to point rocket travel cheaper than business class plane tickets by 2028 was just embarrassing.

I mean, Elon made the same claims about Starship Earth to Earth, Mars colonization, plus other outrageous claims about the hyperloop and the boring company and Tesla autopilot (in 2014 he said that in 5 years you'll be able to go to sleep behind the wheel). At what point does the genious marketing end and defrauding investors with false promises begin?

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

#169

Post by HaggardFinical »

gameswithgo wrote: post #106
e17 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO you have to maintain or exert some control over a nation in order to be an oligarch. So Jeff and Elon are out, but David Koch and Robert Mercer meet the definition for me. These guys have exerted huge control over the US over the last 30-40 years.

Perhaps they are not able to move the lever as much as russian oligarchs, but both have some levers to pull.

Given that Russia has mostly an oil based economy roughly the size of Italy, the levers they are moving are quite a bit smaller than their American counterparts.

Bezos or Koch or Hamm or DeVoss can't move their American levers as far, but the overall output is quite substantial compared to what Abramovich can achieve with his.

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

#170

Post by Abishek_Muthian »

peteretep wrote: post #13

An Elon / Jeff space willy-waving contest about who gets to be Space Bro Alpha seems like a net win for humanity

I wouldn't be surprised if the Billionaires world over suddenly get in shape here after.
Post reply on HN