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Amazon's Jeff Bezos Sets His Sights on the Stars

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the space-company-fad dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo News is reporting that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is looking to open a 'rocket-ship complex' for his new startup Blue Origin early next year. From the article: 'Blue Origin has released few details about the project. But a Texas newspaper editor who interviewed Bezos earlier this year said the billionaire talked [about] sending a spaceship into orbit that launches and lands vertically, like a rocket, and eventually building spaceships that can orbit the Earth -- possibly leading to permanent colonies in space.'"

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  1. roses are red by pyro_dude · · Score: -1, Troll
    the sky's blue

    i got my barrel atcour neck so what the fuck you gonna do

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    --pyro_dude
  2. Jeff Bezos's Fatal Flaw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    vagina!!! PENIS!!!!

  3. Re:Private funding of space travel is more ethical by eno2001 · · Score: -1, Troll

    And I conclude that you're probably a jerk who buys into Ayn Rand. Screw the objectivists. They're all whacked. And learn to lighten up and have some fun while you're at it.

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    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
  4. MSNBC News by slickwillie · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yahoo News admitted today that it planted a false story about Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his idea to spend billions of dollars on space fantasy Blue Origin. Yahoo also admitted to shorting the living fuck out of AMZN stock shortly before publishing the story. Yahoo spokesbot I. M. Outtahere said it was a desterate attempt to boost quarterly earnings in an otherwise lackluster year.