Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: We Should Settle Mars 'Because It's Cool'

(Before It's News)

On Tuesday night, Bezos told an audience of technologists at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. why Blue Origin, his mysterious spaceflight company, carries so much potential.

He spent several minutes outlining his desire to develop outer space. Humans should move heavy industrial facilities off the planet and into space, Bezos argued, where energy from the sun is limitless and available around the clock. Earth instead ought to be “rezoned” for residential and light commercial use.

“We could build gigantic chip factories in space and just send little bits down,” he said. “We don’t have to build them here.”

But then, sensing the obvious next question from the audience, Bezos interrupted himself to declare:

“We will settle Mars. And we should, because it’s cool.” …. http://fortune.com

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