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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says ‘millions of people’ will be living in space by 2045—and robots will commute on our behalf to the moon (fortune.com)

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[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The largest spaceship today is the falcon heavy with a payload of just over 140k lbs. To make the math easy let's say the falcon can lift 1000 people into space at a time.

If "millions of people" means 2 million people then we would need to launch 1000 people into space twice per week for 20 years. So 8 fully loaded falcon heavys per month for 240 months straight.

So.... No. We will not have millions of people in space any time soon.

[–] Chiarottide@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe he uses the GOP definition of people: Frozen embryos. That would drop the weight way down

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just count every sperm cell a man has as a future person, since eggs seem to almost count as people already.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I launched 2 million people into your mom last night