Elon Musk: Jeff Bezos's plan to live in space 'makes no sense' (via CNBCMakeIt)
Musk does not think Bezos's idea is the best option.
"In order to grow the [space] colony" using Bezos's cylinders, tweeted Musk "you'd have to transport vast amounts of mass from planets/moons/asteroids. Would be like trying to build the USA in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean!"Bezos has previously talked about his preference for floating space colonies as opposed to having humans live on other planets like Mars, which is what Musk has suggested.
"The space colonies we'll build will have many advantages. The primary one is that they'll be close to Earth. The transit time and the amount of energy required to move between planets is so high," Bezos said at the Yale Club in New York City in February, according to"Ultimately what will happen, is this planet will be zoned residential and light industry. We'll have universities here and so on, but we won't do heavy industry here.
The design of O'Neill's space settlements include two cylinders, each 20 miles long and 4 miles in diameter,Musk, meanwhile, wants to "terraform" Mars, or make the surface habitable so people can live there. While terraforming Mars will be hard and dangerous, Musk sees the Red Planet as the "only realistic option" for establishing a base on another planet,
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