Jeff Bezos plays down AI dangers and says a trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical space stations::The billionaire said people living in space could visit Earth on vacation.

  • Lophostemon@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    And who’s paying to put all those gazillion bazillions of cubic tonnes of radiation shielding into space?

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      11 months ago

      Not trying to defend Jeff here, but generally these kind of space megaprojects rely on manufacturing materials in space. I.e. capture an asteroid and use its material as the radiation shielding. Not that that’s currently anywhere near feasible ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        11 months ago

        Yeah I read lots of sci-fi as a kid too. We’d be there by now except physics is a cruel and unyielding mistress.