Bezos and Musk Envision Trillion-Person Space Colonization

The billionaires see space infrastructure as a foundation for future generations, with Bezos proposing life in giant space stations and Musk advocating for a multi-planet species.

• Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, two of the world's richest billionaires, agree on the need for a larger human population, with Bezos envisioning a future with a trillion humans living in the solar system.
• Bezos believes that companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX are creating the space infrastructure upon which future generations can build greater things.
• Bezos envisions people living in giant space stations, which have a lot of advantages over planetary surfaces, including the ability to spin them to create normal gravity.
• Bezos sees the Earth's environment being preserved by heavy manufacturing moving into space, taking advantage of resources on the moon and the asteroid belt.
• Musk has long stressed the need for humanity to become a multi-planet species, envisioning SpaceX's Starship rockets transporting people between Earth and Mars, where a permanent human presence will be established.

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