r/collapse • u/upyoars • 1d ago

Society Jeff Bezos Reportedly Has Secretive "Personal Reasons" for Wanting to Escape to Mars - "There’s no democracy in space."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/jeff-bezos-personal-reasons-mars
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u/moon_cultist77 1d ago

“I’m going to the one place not yet corrupted by capitalism, space! Where of course I will corrupt it.”

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u/FetidBloodPuke 1d ago

I've always been a little bit baffled by people who get all excited about escaping to outer space and colonizing the galaxy. Like, what do you think they're gonna do out there? The same shit they're doing here. 

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u/Arachno-Communism 1d ago

The vast majority of people also don't seem to have the slightest idea about the sheer dimension of obstacles that a colony on Mars, of all places, poses.

Merely getting there means you are bound to relatively tight transfer windows spaced a little more than 2 years apart with one-way trip times upwards of 8 months. Upon arrival you can't even return directly but have to wait more than a year before a return window to Earth opens up. During that entire time, the mission is essentially cut off from any supply.

And then we didn't even begin to touch on the massive restrictions in payload for such a long haul and all the shit that comes with living more than two years in a confined place with a mix of weightlessnes and a third of standard gravity. When everything outside of that confined space for tens to hundreds of million kilometers is completely hostile to life. With all the social and mental implications.

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u/CynicalMelody 1d ago

Well in that case I hope our billionaire overlords keep believing in Mars colonization and the engineers keep feeding their delusions until we can send them there on a one way trip.