Poster boy for anything goofball
Jeff Bezos Plans 10-Minutes Sub-Orbital Flights Using Goddard – Science News – Playfuls.com – Science & Technology — Here’s a new way to squander money. Bezos was also one of the people who thought the Segway would revolutionize the world.
Jeff Bezos, the multi-billionaire founder of Amazon.com, has recently unveiled details about its space-traveling ambitions, inviting engineers to join him.
Jeff Bezos has always been a man interested in science. At an early age, he displayed a striking mechanical aptitude. Even as a toddler, he asserted himself by dismantling his crib with a screwdriver. As a result of his genius, he was declared the valedictorian of his class.
So it is not a surprise that he now owns his private space company, Blue Origin, and that he plans to be among the founders of what is now called “space tourism”. Jeff Bezos first unveiled his plans to conquer space in 2000, when Blue Origin was founded, a year after Bezos’ fortune reached its peak of 10.1 billion dollars (according to Forbes).
Atta boy, Jeff! I’m glad to see *somebody* trying to push humankind into space, since NASA certainly isn’t going to do it any time soon.
Robert Bigelow of Las Vegas is doing this too. I think its great.
“Bigelow Aerospace is the only private company with a spacecraft currently in orbit, the Genesis I.”
http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/
Great scientists like Newton and Galileo had all sorts of oddball ideas too.
The difference between a genius and a crackpot is that the genius got one idea right.
#2 I think the definition of “spacecraft” needs some clarification. What was described in the link is just another satellite — and there are a lot of “private” satellites orbiting earth.
Private sector has to do it, the govt doesnt have the resources (aka being mired down in war) to play the space tourism game right now – nasa was formed when space and war coincided – and it might just get the ball rolling. I wish him good luck
4. You may have a point. But look at the images of the interior of the craft (or satellite).
hey come now – the Segway was awesome, and would have revolutionized the world… if they had ever got the price down to the level of a standard bike.
They didn’t… game over, which is a shame. If they had – I would have got one.
This is loony? Why, because he has what seems like an unattinable goal? I expected more of an open mind from you, John.
He’s got the resources to make this work, and I wish him all the luck in the world.
Unless he’s got Burt Rutan working for him (which he doesn’t) he pissing in the wind.
Why can’t do like all the uber-rich and just snort lines off a hooker’s stomach while cruising around in his Rolls Royce?
Silly rabbit, money’s for tricks!
Commercialization of space is a good thing for the USA since the people want to spend the money on wars instead.
A goal for all the loonies is this big diamond http://tinyurl.com/2tuno
I can’t imagine that thing could scale up enough to hold enough fuel for a vertical accent into orbit and a vertical landing. To make space accessible, something other than brute force against a gravity well must be pursued.
13. No its Kevin Spacey doing his BD impression.
If you can find the right materials, you may be able to scale this up and still escape the earth’s gravity. Sixty years ago this couldn’t be built. But lo and behold, materials science finally caught up with imagination.