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Jeff Bezos

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  1. “So Blue Ring is a very interesting spacecraft that is designed to take up to 3,000 kilograms of payload up to geosynchronous orbit or in lunar vicinity. It has two different kinds of propulsion. It has chemical propulsion and it has electric propulsion. And so you can use Blue Ring in a couple of different ways. You can slowly move.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “For all of these other gifts that we have as an advanced society. And we can have both. But to do that, we have to go to space. And all of this really, the most fundamental measure is energy usage per capita. And when you look at, you know, you do want to continue to use more and more energy. It is going to make your life better in so many ways, but that's not compatible ultimately with living on a finite planet. And so we have to go out into the solar system. And really, you could argue about when you have to do that, but you can't credibly argue about whether you have to do that.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “The good old days, they're mostly an illusion. In almost every way, life is better for almost everyone today than it was, say, fifty years ago or 100 years ago. We live better lives by and large than our grandparents did and their grandparents did and so on. And you can see that in global illiteracy rates, global poverty rates, global infant mortality rates. Almost any metric you choose, we're better off than we used to be. And we get antibiotics and all kinds of life-saving medical care and so on and so on. And there's one thing that is moving backwards, and it's the natural world. So it is a fact that 500 years ago, pre-industrial age, the natural world was pristine. It was incredible. And we have traded some of that pristine beauty.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “But Earth really is the good planet. It's an amazing, it's amazing. The ecosystem we have here, all of the life and the lush plant life and the water resources, everything. This planet is really extraordinary. And of course, we evolved on this planet. So of course it's perfect for us. But it's also perfect for all the advanced life forms on this planet, all the animals and so on. And so this is a gem. We do need to take care of it. And as we enter the anthropocene, as we get, as we humans have gotten sophisticated and large and impactful as we stride across this planet, that is going to, as we continue, we want to use a lot of energy. We want to use a lot of energy per capita. We've gotten amazing things. We don't want to go backwards. If you think about...”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Yeah. Same way that you might go to Yellowstone National Park for vacation. People will, and the advent, and people will get to choose where they live on Earth or whether they live in space, but they'll be able to use much more energy and much more material resource in space than they would be able to use on Earth.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Yeah, the only way to get to that vision is with giant space stations. You know, the planetary surfaces are just way too small. So you can, I mean, unless you turn them into giant space stations or something, but yeah, we will take materials from the moon and from near-Earth objects and from the asteroid belt and so on. And we'll build a giant O'Neill style colonies. And people will live in those. And they have a lot of advantages over planetary surfaces. You can spin them to get normal Earth gravity. You can put them where you want them. I think most people are going to want to live near Earth, not necessarily in Earth orbit, but in Earth vicinity orbits. And so they can move relatively quickly back and forth between their station and Earth.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “I would love to see a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einstein's, our solar system be full of life and intelligence and energy. And we can easily support a civilization that large with all of the resources in the solar system.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “That John Glenn is the first American to orbit the Earth. By the way, I have the most charming, sweet, incredible letter from John Glenn, which I have framed and hang on my office wall, where he tells me how grateful he is that we have named New Glenn after him. And he sent me that letter about a week before he died And it's really an incredible, it's also a very funny letter. He's writing and he says this is a letter about Newglyn from the original Glen. And he's just got a great sense of humor and he's very happy about it and grateful. It's very sweet.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “They were taking huge risks. I'm not sure what the Soviets thought about Gagarin's flight, but I think that the Americans thought that the Allen Shepard flight, the flight that New Shepard is named after the first American in space, he went on his suborbital flight. They thought he had about a 75% chance of success. So, you know, that's a pretty big risk, a 25% risk.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “I'm a big fan of Gagarin, though, and in fact, I think his first words in space, I think are incredible. He purportedly said, my God, it's blue. And that really drives home. No one had seen the Earth from space. No one knew that we were on this blue planet. No one knew what it looked like from out there, and Gagarin was the first person to see it.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “And so, in that way, it's also a technical marvel. I mean, it's truly incredible. It's, you know, it's the 20th century version of building the pyramids or something. It's an achievement that because it was pulled forward in time and because it did something that had previously been thought impossible, it rightly deserves its place as in the pantheon of great human achievements.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “And so that's kind of the big story of Apollo is that things, you know, going to the moon was literally an analogy that people used for something that's impossible. You know, oh yeah, you'll do that when men walk on the moon And of course it finally happened. So, you know, I think it was pulled forward in time because of the space race. I think with the geopolitical implications and how much resource was put into it, at the peak that program was spending 2 or 3 percent of GDP on the Apollo program, so much resource. I think it was pulled forward in time. You know, we kind of did it ahead of when we quote unquote should have done it.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Well, I mean, there's so much inspiring there. One of the great things to take away from that, one of the great von Braun quotes is I have come to use the word impossible with great caution.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Yeah, like figuring out that you can solve problems with enough persistence and ingenuity. And my grandfather bought a D6 bulldozer, which is a big bulldozer, and he got it for like $5,000 because it was completely broken down. It was like a 1955 caterpillar D6 bulldozer. knew it would have cost, I don't know, more than $100,000. We spent an entire summer fixing, like repairing that bulldozer. And we'd use mail order to buy big gears for the transmission. And they'd show up, they'd be too heavy to move. So we'd have to build a crane, you know, just that kind of that problem solving mentality. He had it so powerfully. He did all of his own, he just didn't pick up the phone and call somebody. He would figure it out on his own. Doing his own veterinary work, you know.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “He had these big crazy dogs. It was really a very formative experience. But the key thing about it. For me, the great gift I got from it was that my grandfather was so resourceful. You know, he did everything himself. He made his own veterinary tools. He would make needles to suture the cattle up with. He would find a little piece of wire and heat it up and pound it thin and drill a hole in it and sharpen it. So, you know, you learn different things on a ranch than you would learn growing up in a city.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “My grandmother died, I was about 12, and I kept coming to the ranch. So then it was just him and me, just the two of us. And he was completely addicted to the soap opera, the days of our lives. And we would go back to the ranch house every day around 1 p.m. or so to watch days of our lives. Like Sands threw an hourglass. So are the days of our lives.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “And my grandfather was really taking me those in the summers, in the early summers, he was letting me pretend to help on the ranch because, of course, a four-year-old is a burden, not a help in real life who can really just watching me and taking care of me. He was doing that because my mom was so young. She had me when she was 17. And so he was sort of giving her a break. And my grandmother and my grandfather would take me for these summers. But as I got a little older, I actually was helpful on the ranch and I loved it. I was out there. My grandfather had a huge influence on me, huge factor in my life. I did all the jobs you would do on a ranch. I've fixed windmills and laid fences and pipelines and all the things that any rancher would do, vaccinated the animals, everything. But we had a, you know, my grandfather.”

    2023-12-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source