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Too bad it's not a sailing yacht.

He shares the vision of Gerard O'Neill. Making it reality will require large amounts of money.

It is really trendy for billionaires to be interested in space right now. I think they want to make money there. They believe that too big to fail on earth means that they should go where nobody has made any money.

O'Neill was product of academia, a physicist and not a head of corporation.

Do you have an up to date source on bezos owning the flying fox as that one is based on a tweet that was deleted and everything I've read since says that was false including a quick google search.

Also, I'm interested in how you think Amazon is too big to fail because I most certainly do not think they are.

If you mean the boat

https://themarketherald.com.au/magazine/the-pursuit-of-comfo...

Yeah, you already linked to that article which mentions "A recent Twitter post" but of course has no link because it is probably the aforementioned deleted one because that website is probably complete BS. It does say january 2 but again, the twitter rumor was 1.5 years ago.

Here is an article refuting that twitter rumor back in august of 2019: https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-rumors-own-400-mi...

Project Redwood.. LOL

Maybe he is leasing it. Businessinsider does not have access to his personal account and neither does his company.

They couldn't even get Trump's tax returns. They have no clue.

Amazon is buying all warehouses and displacing regular stores. If it fails people will have problems buying things that they use to buy from local stores.

I believe that saying it is "trendy" is missing the point. Both Bezos and Musk have been space nerds since their youth.

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