you sounded quite keen to go. i was. do you see human colonisation of space as a vital part of our future as a species? because elon musk, for example, and jeff bezos, they both seem to believe that, frankly, the future for human beings on earth is very limited. i think they re crazy. you. they re crazy? on that issue, yes. they re not crazy in what they ve been doing commercially, obviously. i mean, amazon is probably the most successful shop there s ever been. no, no, but. well, we ll leave aside his success with amazon as a business, but when bezos talks about the exciting future for the human species far beyond. he doesn t know much about it. i ve spent a lot of time with nasa atjet propulsion labs and elsewhere, with the people who are concerned with actually going there
i was. do you see human colonisation of space as a vital part of our future as a species? because elon musk, for example, and jeff bezos, they both seem to believe that, frankly, the future for human beings on earth is very limited. i think they re crazy. you. they re crazy? on that issue, yes. they re not crazy in what they ve been doing commercially, obviously. i mean, amazon is probably the most successful shop there s ever been. no, no, but. well, we ll leave aside his success with amazon as a business, but when bezos talks about the exciting future for the human species far beyond. he doesn t know much about it. i ve spent a lot of time with nasa atjet propulsion labs and elsewhere, with the people who are concerned with actually going there and sending stuff there.
itjust intrigued me that you sounded quite keen to go. i was. do you see human colonisation of space as a vital part of our future as a species? because elon musk, for example, and jeff bezos, they both seem to believe that, frankly, the future for human beings on earth is very limited. i think they re crazy. you. they re crazy? on that issue, yes. they re not crazy in what they ve been doing commercially, obviously. i mean, amazon is probably the most successful shop there s ever been. no, no, but. well, we ll leave aside his success with amazon as a business, but when bezos talks about the exciting future for the human species far beyond. he doesn t know much about it. i ve spent a lot of time with nasa atjet propulsion labs and elsewhere, with the people who are concerned with actually going there and sending stuff there.
do you see human colonisation of space as a vital part of our future as a species? because elon musk, for example, and jeff bezos, they both seem to believe that, frankly, the future for human beings on earth is very limited. i think they re crazy. you. they re crazy? on that issue, yes. they re not crazy in what they ve been doing commercially, obviously. i mean, amazon is probably the most successful shop there s ever been. no, no, but. well, we ll leave aside his success with amazon as a business, but when bezos talks about the exciting future for the human species far beyond. he doesn t know much about it. i ve spent a lot of time with nasa atjet propulsion labs and elsewhere, with the people who are concerned with actually going there and sending stuff there. by there, i mean outer space.
so if there is an intelligent machine based life form. they re not going to put up with burning. ..in our future, they may regard humans as really rather useless and counterproductive. it s not going to put up with burning coal. no. 0r oil. it ll say, start using nuclear or else. you, i think many years ago, were offered a trip to space by richard branson. yes. what happened to that? oh, well, poor richard branson had bad luck. there was a crash with the space flight plane that he was going to put me on. and, i mean, that kind of thing happens in the development of new aircraft. but i think we ve got a lot more fussy these days than we used to be. itjust intrigued me that you sounded quite keen to go. i was. do you see human colonisation