{"id":24613,"date":"2016-04-12T21:01:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T04:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/jeff-bezos-wants-to-open-the-way-for-millions-to-live-work-in-space"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:02:27","slug":"jeff-bezos-wants-to-open-the-way-for-millions-to-live-work-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/jeff-bezos-wants-to-open-the-way-for-millions-to-live-work-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos wants to open the way for millions to live, work in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jeff-bezos-wants-to-open-the-way-for-millions-to-live-work-in-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>COLORADO SPRINGS \u2014 Jeff Bezos, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a>, could not be more clear about what he believes is mankind\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want millions of people living and working in space. I want us to be a space-faring civilization,\u201d Bezos told a packed audience at the Space Symposium on Tuesday in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy motivation is, I don\u2019t want Plan B to be, \u2018Good news, Earth got destroyed by a big comet but we live on Mars.\u2019 I think we need to explore and utilize space in order to save the Earth,\u201d he said, referring to the need to shift industrial manufacturing to space to limit the impact on Earth\u2019s resources.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/business\/ci_29758537\/jeff-bezos-wants-open-way-millions-live-work?source=top_stories_bar\">http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/business\/ci_29758537\/jeff-bezos-wa...tories_bar<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLORADO SPRINGS \u2014 Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, could not be more clear about what he believes is mankind\u2019s future. \u201cI want millions of people living and working in space. I want us to be a space-faring civilization,\u201d Bezos told a packed audience at the Space Symposium on Tuesday in Colorado Springs. \u201cMy motivation is, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67710,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24613\/revisions\/67710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}