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We Need To Build Industrial Zones In Space In Order To Save Earth, Says Jeff Bezos (cnbc.com)
Onstage at the Code Conference, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said that we have to start bringing parts of the industrial economy to space in order to "save Earth." Bezos also said that we must protect our planet, adding that we don't want to live in a retrograde world where "we have to freeze population growth." From the report: Bezos says tasks that require lots of energy shouldn't be handled on Earth. Instead, we should perform them in space, and that will happen within the next few hundred years. "Energy is limited here. In at least a few hundred years... all of our heavy industry will be moved off-planet," Bezos added. "Earth will be zoned residential and light industrial. You shouldn't be doing heavy energy on earth. We can build gigantic chip factories in space." Solar energy, for instance, is more practical for factories in space, he said. "We don't have to actually build them here," he said. "The Earth shades itself, [whereas] in space you can get solar power 24/7. ... The problem with other planets ... people will visit Mars, and we will settle Mars, and people should because it's cool, but for heavy industry, I would actually put it in space."
It would be much more productive to move the people off into space.
We can start with all the telephone sanitizers, middle management and Trump supporters.
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You wouldn't push asteroids into LEO, no. High orbit or one of the Lagrange points. (Home home on Lagrange, where the robots and asteroids roam).
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
"...and Trump supporters."
I'd rather use the liberals here for rocket fuel since they're uneducated, don't obey the laws, and plentiful enough thanks to breeding like rabbits. It's a green alternative they should love.