Why Jeff Bezos is moonstruck to predict a trillion people living in space

Get the Full StoryMistakenly applying Moore’s law to astrophysics, the multibillionaire overestimates the livability of space by orders of magnitude.

As Trump and Kanye show, a rich enough person feels confident saying anything–even with no evidence. So it’s fitting that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the solar system with about 148 billion , has said the craziest thing about space. He told Wired, in a new article and at the magazine’s 25th Annual Wired Summit, that off-world habitats could house, “millions, billions, maybe even a trillion people.”Read Full Story

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