Pretty good by . You could quibble with some of the empirical bits, but the interesting part is the argument about billionaires being era-bridge ideal archetypes for our age, like saints, explorers scientists, revolutionaries in past ages.
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Is one of the empirical bits you would quibble with that life extension will be prohibitively expensive?
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Yes, and that space flight cost billions… you can’t attribute all the capex of blue origin to the peripheral business of suborbital tourism, let alone a single vanity flight. They’re mostly building towards generic launch services.
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No, the space tourism I think could be cheap. The world transforming technology not. In part because it is deeply political
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Yeah he definitely has a bigger vision of orbital manufacturing but that industrial ambition is more tycoon than billionaire in his scheme. The personal passion exit logic mainly applies to more personal ambitions like personally going to space, or in Elon’s case retiring on Mars
Truer of Branson because his virgin galactic air-launched suborbital tech has no serious pathway to orbital.
I don't see how blue is building towards anything that's clearly commercially viable
They seem deeply lost in terms of strategy
There are some efforts to change that, but they really need them
New Glenn is NET 2024, and def low cadence. Won't be cheap, poor high energy perf
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