{"id":88175,"date":"2019-02-25T23:42:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T07:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/jeff-bezos-in-the-future-well-live-in-giant-space-colonies"},"modified":"2019-02-25T23:42:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T07:42:29","slug":"jeff-bezos-in-the-future-well-live-in-giant-space-colonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/jeff-bezos-in-the-future-well-live-in-giant-space-colonies","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos: In the Future, We\u2019ll Live In \u201cGiant Space Colonies\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jeff-bezos-in-the-future-well-live-in-giant-space-colonies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very few people are going to want to leave this planet permanently \u2014 it\u2019s just too amazing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cUltimately what will happen, is this planet will be zoned residential and light industry,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the gem of the Solar System. Why would we do heavy industry here? It\u2019s nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bezos also referenced the work of physicist Gerard O\u2019Neill, who came up with the idea of a cylinder-shaped space settlement design known as an \u201cO\u2019Neill cylinder,\u201d in which two counter-rotating cylinders would provide gravity for human settlers while mitigating gyroscopic effects.<\/p>\n<p>Similar space colonies have been depicted in popular sci-fi movies including \u201c2001: A Space Odyssey\u201d (1968).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/jeff-bezos-future-giant-space-colonies\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/jeff-bezos-future-giant-space-colonies<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very few people are going to want to leave this planet permanently \u2014 it\u2019s just too amazing. \u201cUltimately what will happen, is this planet will be zoned residential and light industry,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the gem of the Solar System. Why would we do heavy industry here? It\u2019s nonsense.\u201d Bezos also referenced the work [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88175","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}