• Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Putting a million people in space would require ten of thousand of launches if they were Boeing 737s carrying the people.

    Housing a million people in space would require technology that won’t exist in 20 years let alone in time to have it built in 20 years.

    This kind of shit is just so fucking stupid.

    It takes them 2 years to build an Amazon warehouse in fucking Michigan. We’re supposed to believe they’re going to build space stations to support a million people in 20 years?

    Who is this stupid? Who believes this shit?

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      Honestly it will be lucky if we have anyone permanently inhabiting the moon in 20 years. The Artemis program is our best bet and frankly that’s a pipe dream.

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    If that guys in charge, I would assume those millions are being forced to work in ‘Mars in Total Recall’ conditions. Basically slave labor in abhorrent conditions with food/air being withheld when you don’t slave away hard enough.

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    3 days ago

    Man, I’m SO glad newspapers don’t tell the whole world whenever I say something stupid. That would be really embarrassing.

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    Oh is he going to build a space elevator or something?

    Even if we had cheap safe reliable rocket launchers (Which I think SpaceX is fairly adequately demonstrated that we do not have) millions of people wouldn’t be living on the moon in 20 years. It took decades after the invention of the jetliner before millions of people were doing transatlantic flights, and as unpleasant as Florida can be, it’s a lot more survivable than the moon (probably).

    These idiots say so much crap, why are we reporting on it?

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    Must be fun being able to say crazy shit and have news articles written about it.

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      Right? Anyone else his age says that shit people say Okay Grandpa, let’s get you off to bed.

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          You should buy ALL of the ice cream at a McDonald’s and just eat ice cream until you pass out in a pile of regurgitated ice cream various types of ice cream in various stages of thawing, and of course two dozen copies of your manifesto on the evils of eating pork. Make sure it’s at least a couple hundred pages long and then make a hard pivot with no explanation like 20 pages from the end to blaming the people of the Sentinel Islands for all of the world’s problems, and then somehow tie it back into the pork thing.

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          I’m cool with the LLM doing the manifesto. But surely you know one oligarch or pedo that deserves the Luigi treatment. Hell maybe get yourself a two for one special. I know of a very wealthy, very powerful pedo thats all over the news. Surely you can “scope” one out.

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    How has such an idiot talker been able to accumulate such indecent amount of resources?

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    I don’t think we have the capacity to launch a million people into orbit in 20 years, let alone all the stuff they need. I mean, 1 million people weigh about 150 million pounds, and that’s just meat and bones. .

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    when will we just tell these people to shut the fuck up and that we don’t care what they think? I’ve never heard a tech billionaire say anything remotely smart for decades now.

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    He realizes that’s only 20 years from now, right?

    The infrastructure to support millions would have to already have begun construction like a could decades ago already for that to be remotely plausible.

    It takes like 3+ years just to make a 6 episode tv show about space these days…

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      Lol, my dude thinks we’re going to have millions of people in space before California finishes their high speed rail project, the project that was started 10 years ago…

      You give a guy billions of dollars because he figured out how to put Barnes and Noble out of business and he suddenly thinks he’s a genius at everything.

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        To give the devil his due, Bezos’s business strategy to grow Amazon was well thought out and well-executed. It also involved exploiting the shit out of his warehouse workers and plenty of sleaze, but Bezos actually knew what he was doing.

        Bullshit like this announcement makes me think he’s run out of ideas, though.

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          The point being that him being good at worker exploitation, and getting extremely lucky with his heavy use of massively leveraging his business for decades doesn’t make him good at rocket science or predicting the feasibility of putting large populations in space.

          Especially since, Blue Origin, his rocket company, started 25 years ago and only managed to make a rocket that brings 6 people up to the very edge of space without actually going into it for a couple minutes before coming back down, in that time.

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      It took around 5 years to build a large Amazon hub near me which is just now opening but he thinks we’ll somehow have millions of people living in space in 4x that time despite not having the capability to do even a miniscule fraction of that now. I think he’s trying to be Elon Musk from 10 years ago and doing a terribly embarrassing job of it.