{"id":18315,"date":"2018-10-16T00:13:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T16:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/attention-earthlings-jeff-bezos-wants-everybody-to-watch-this-classic-video-about-settling-off-planet\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T00:13:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T16:13:36","slug":"attention-earthlings-jeff-bezos-wants-everybody-to-watch-this-classic-video-about-settling-off-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/attention-earthlings-jeff-bezos-wants-everybody-to-watch-this-classic-video-about-settling-off-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention, Earthlings: Jeff Bezos wants everybody to watch this classic video about settling off planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_455082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-455082\" style=\"width: 488px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-455082\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-15-at-1.05.14-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-15-at-1.05.14-PM.png 488w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-15-at-1.05.14-PM-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-15-at-1.05.14-PM-200x111.png 200w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-15-at-1.05.14-PM-150x84.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-455082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Bezos during Wired 25 on Monday. (Twitter screen grab via Wired)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jeff Bezos loves to talk about space. And in a talk about just that on Monday, he encouraged anyone who was listening to go listen to another classic talk about space.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon CEO and Blue Origin founder was a guest at Wired 25 in San Francisco. He\u2019s the subject of the magazine\u2019s new cover story: \u201cJeff Bezos Wants All of Us to Leave Earth \u2014 For Good.\u201d His conversation with writer Steven Levy opened with the two recalling that Bezos gave Levy a homework assignment involving footage from an old TV show called \u201cThe Round Table.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"callout clearfix\"><strong>RELATED:<\/strong> Jeff Bezos defends big tech working with government, one week after Google drops out of Pentagon contract<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cThis is an incredible short video that I would recommend all of you go find on the internet and watch,\u201d Bezos said.&nbsp;(We did that for you, below.)<\/p>\n<p>The video featured Princeton University professor of physics Gerard O\u2019Neill and biochemist and science-fiction author Isaac Asimov.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos said that O\u2019Neill promoted the idea of giant space colonies for human settlers, as opposed to the idea of settling on the surface of other planets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, Gerry was very formative in my high school years,\u201d Bezos said. \u201cI read his book called \u2018The High Frontier\u2019 and it resonated with me and made a lot of sense to me. He was the first person to ask this very fundamental question, if we are to expand into the solar system, is a planetary surface the right place to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Roundtable TV Interview\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DM88sUBTTRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.75\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"600\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 600px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bezos went on to point out one of the \u201cdelightful moments\u201d in the interview, when Asimov is asked why he thinks no one had come up with O\u2019Neill\u2019s idea previously \u2014 an idea for space colonies that would be very large and hold more than 1 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos quoted Asimov as saying, \u201cI think I know why no one\u2019s thought of this before. It\u2019s because we\u2019re planetary chauvinists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe we are,\u201d Bezos added. \u201cIt makes sense. We kind of grew up on one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Levy pressed Bezos and his Earth view, calling him the richest person on the planet \u2014 \u201cthis planet, anyway\u201d \u2014 and asking whether spending billions on space exploration made more sense than spending more of his Amazon fortune on critical issues at home, such as poverty.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a question Bezos has become familiar with, as he\u2019s faced scrutiny over Blue Origin and the price tag associated with his exploratory pursuits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not spend one minute of my life on anything I don\u2019t think is contributing to society and civilization,\u201d Bezos said. \u201cYou want risk-taking. You want people to have visions that most people won\u2019t agree with. If you have a vision that everybody agrees with, you probably shouldn\u2019t do it because someone else will do it first. All of the real needle-movers are driven by being right when most of the world is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos during Wired 25 on Monday. (Twitter screen grab via Wired) Jeff Bezos loves to talk about space. And in a talk about just that on Monday, he encouraged anyone who was listening to go listen to another classic talk about space. 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