Jeff Bezos, billionaire and entrepreneur, believes that space will become humanity’s home in the future. People will also visit Earth for vacation.
The Blue Origin founder said on Wednesday that in centuries to come, people will be born in space and live in giant floating cylinders that could house up to a million people and re-create Earth’s gravity and environment, with ‘rivers, forests and wildlife’ and regular Terran weather.
Bezos announced his prediction at an unexpected appearance during the discussion on U.S. Space Policy featuring NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines.
Bezos stated that space will become a home for many over the centuries. They will live in these colonies and then visit Earth as you would, Yellowstone National Park.
This talk was given at Washington Cathedral in the context of the 2021 Ignatius Forum hosted in DC by Adi Ignatius editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review.
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Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos made a prediction in Washington, DC that, over the centuries, many people would be born in Space, and it would be their first home.
Bezos previously mentioned his vision for space habitats called ‘O’Neill colonies.
Business Insider reports that the second-richest man in the world described the three-mile-long Blue Origin cylinders as having high-speed transport and agricultural areas. Some are also designed for recreational use.
Certain areas might have no gravity, allowing residents to fly leisurely. Others may be similar to Earth metropolises.
‘This is Maui on its best day, all year long,’ Bezos said of the colonies in 2019, according to The Guardian. ‘No rain. There are no earthquakes. It is going to be a place where people want to live.

A concept by artist of the Bezos’ O’Neill space colony. It includes agriculture and high-speed rail.
Bezos spoke Wednesday about how even Blue Origin was his company name and a reference to Earth being humanity’s birth point.
The colonies were named after Gerard O’Neill (physicist), who believed that other planets may not be suitable for humans.
Bezos stated Wednesday that he agreed to O’Neill’s suggestion.
‘Even if you were to terraform Mars or do something very dramatic like that — which could be very, very challenging, by the way — even if you were to do that, that is, at most, a doubling of Earth,’ he said.
“Then, you can go from 10 billion to 20 billion people.”
His July trip to the other side of Earth was more transformative than he imagined.
He said to the crowd, “The magnitude of that event was so much greater than I could ever have anticipated,”

In his talk Wednesday, Bezos said future generations born in space colonies would visit Earth the way you would visit, you know, Yellowstone National Park’Yellowstone National Park (pictured)
“It’s such an important shift in perspective, that it shows you in a powerful and emotional manner just how fragile the Earth is. That perspective is something I wish all people could attain.
Bezos claimed that his interest in space exploration began when he was five years old, and Neil Armstrong was the first person to step foot on the Moon.
“I have always longed to own a company such as Blue Origin that would help me build the path to space.
Bezos, a long-time Star Trek fan also made comments on William Shatner’s last month trip aboard the Blue Origin suborbital capsule.
‘I opened the hatch and he came out of that capsule, and he was almost catatonic—he could barely move. When he did start to speak… there were tears moving down his cheek. For him, it was transformative.
Bezos stated that the two men gave one another ‘the gift space’. He gave it in fourth grade to me, while I got it for him in the 90’s.
Bezos, who is 57 years old, confirmed that he believed extraterrestrial life.

Jeff Bezos traveled to space on July 2021 with his younger brother, Mark, a teenage physics student and pioneering astronaut Wally Funk, 82.
“How could it not?” It is amazing how many stars there are in this particular galaxy. Then there’s so many galaxies,” he said.
Blue Origin and Bezos lost last week a suit they filed against NASA for a $3 billion contract SpaceX was awarded by the agency.
Blue Origin initially filed suit against NASA in August, claiming NASA intended to offer multiple contracts for the lunar landing vehicle.
NASA chose SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, to be the only provider of the award worth $2.91 Billion.
Blue Origin spokeswoman said that Blue Origin is committed to Artemis’ success and has a wide base of activity under multiple NASA contracts to help the United States reach its goal of returning to the Moon.
Blue Origin has a contract with NASA to develop sustainable landers and lunar space robots.
Bezos commented publicly on the ruling saying that it was “not the decision.” [Blue Origin]We are happy to accept the decision of the court, but we also respect their judgment and wish NASA and SpaceX all the success with the contract.