Bezos says 'millions of people' will be living in space by 2045 - and robots will commute on our behalf to the moon

[The Madcap]

33. So twenty years from now

We are going to build permanent space habitats that we are then going to send millions of humans to. How many flights would that take? Let's imagine a Bezos rocket can carry ten people, not including the crew. That would require 100,000 flights just to get one million people there. To make this feasible (HA HA!), you would need to have ships that could transport 1,000 at a time, and that would still take 1,000 flights.

Maybe he thinks the first inhabitants are just going to crank out space babies to fill the quota. Remember, though, that the first space generation would still require 12-15 years to reach puberty, so getting that second generation born to pump up the numbers would be really close to his 20-year target. Of course, teens stuck in space would likely be even more depressed than they are here on earth, as they would have no real freedom and no way of escape. They would make for a pretty useless next generation of adults in an environment that is fraught with danger.

As a side note, what's with the velvet suit and the oddly revealing clothes on his wife? Utterly tasteless and hideous. If this is leadership in the U.S., we are finished and done. Just dig the graves so we can jump in.