I always felt like when Amazon acquired The Expanse that it was likely Bezo’s fantasy to have an underclass of chronically ill, resource-starved people in space - to serve his interests and make him richer.
Glad to know I wasn’t off-base.
I thought the only ones chronically ill while not on actual planets were a subset of the rock hoppers who stayed long-term on moon stations?
e: I mean the guy definitely thought the wrong people were the good guys, but I’ll take twice as many seasons and try not to peer too hard into the sausage factory, thanks.
I think all the belters had health issues due to their height
Early on Tom Jane gets made fun of for his spinal surgery, but I think it was only relevant in that scene because the guys were rock hoppers and they were on Ceres which has more significant gravity than most of the belt. I may have misinterpreted, though.
Oof it’s been a long time but I thought a lot of the OPA had tattoos on their necks to obscure their surgery scars, I thought it was common. Though maybe it’s different between the book and the show?
And is Tom Jane a typo? I don’t remember that character. Omg just googled it. I was like, I think that happened to Miller? But how could Tom Jane be an autocorrect for Miller?? And it’s his actors name lmao
Oh yeah lol I was having trouble remembering the character’s and I knew him from a bunch of other stuff before the show came out
More proof that billionaires are completely detached from reality.
Man, I’m SO glad newspapers don’t tell the whole world whenever I say something stupid. That would be really embarrassing.
Did he join scientology already?
Billionaires get all the best drugs
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.
Maybe he uses the GOP definition of people: Frozen embryos. That would drop the weight way down
Just count every sperm cell a man has as a future person, since eggs seem to almost count as people already.
I launched 2 million people into your mom last night
More proof that the ultra wealthy don’t exist in reality.
I don’t think we have the capacity to launch a million people into orbit in 20 years, let alone all the stuff they need. I mean, 1 million people weigh about 150 million pounds, and that’s just meat and bones. .
That’s 20 years and utterly ridiculous
Jeff Bezos says a lot of things
lmao you would think somebody who stole a bunch of surplus value from the world would understand that getting millions of people and the infrastructure to support them to the moon in the next 20 years would bankrupt the governments he depends on to protect him from us.
He’s so detached from reality that he thinks he can do it all by himself.
I ain’t going…
when will we just tell these people to shut the fuck up and that we don’t care what they think? I’ve never heard a tech billionaire say anything remotely smart for decades now.
Communication with these parasites is one-directional. They spew garbage and we get rained on.
LOL that’s not how capitalism works and let’s face it: countries aren’t interested in space programs anymore
Must be fun being able to say crazy shit and have news articles written about it.
Right? Anyone else his age says that shit people say Okay Grandpa, let’s get you off to bed.
Musk does about the same. It seems you just need to be a billionaire
You can too!
Just gotta put it in a manifesto and do something horrible.
Im going to ask an LLM to write me a manifesto and pick a target.
I’m cool with the LLM doing the manifesto. But surely you know one oligarch or pedo that deserves the Luigi treatment. Hell maybe get yourself a two for one special. I know of a very wealthy, very powerful pedo thats all over the news. Surely you can “scope” one out.
You should buy ALL of the ice cream at a McDonald’s and just eat ice cream until you pass out in a pile of regurgitated ice cream various types of ice cream in various stages of thawing, and of course two dozen copies of your manifesto on the evils of eating pork. Make sure it’s at least a couple hundred pages long and then make a hard pivot with no explanation like 20 pages from the end to blaming the people of the Sentinel Islands for all of the world’s problems, and then somehow tie it back into the pork thing.
