I think we might actually be in spacepic.twitter.com/gLox3iI3W7
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Bezos talking about whether or not expanding to planetary surfaces is actually best for humanity: "no... one is that other planetary surfaces aren't that big."
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Bezos showing a concept of giant manufactured space stations that rotate to create artificial gravity
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Bezos: Alright if we build these colonies, Earth will be zoned for residential and light industry
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Bezos: "We get to preserve this unique gem of a planet, which is completely irreplaceable. There is no plan B."
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Bezos: "The price of admission to do interesting things in space right now is just to high, because there's no infrastructure."
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Just to be clear, nothing has actually been announced yet from Blue Origin
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Bezos: "We're going to build a road to space, and then amazing things will happen." Says the kids sitting here will build those massive rotating space colonies
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Bezos: "First, we must have a radical reduction in launch cost. Launches are just simply too expensive today. And second, we have to use in space resources."
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Now we are watching a New Shepard video and hearing about the merits of reusability...
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Bezos reiterates the goal to fly humans on New Shepard this year
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Now we're on to New Glenn details. GIVE ME MOON DEETS THO!
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Bezos on New Glenn: We can operate this vehicle, even in very heavy sea states, and it's designed for human rating right from the very beginning. Will fly in 2021
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Bezos: "We were given a gift. This nearby body called the moon."
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Bezos listing off reasons people love the Moon: it's got water ice, it's nearby, and it's easy to get resources from the Moon into space because of the low gravity
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Can soft land up to 6.5 metric tons on the Moon
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New BE7 engine, going to hot fire it for the first time this summerpic.twitter.com/Kw3VJk71zW
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