His vision revolves around the concept of rotating cylinders in space, many miles in length and breadth that were envisioned by Mr Bezos’ former Princeton professor, Gerard O’Neill. Living in these space-based human habitats, dubbed O’Neill Cylinders, or O’Neill Colonies, may choose to be “an easy choice” claims Mr Bezos, when faced with dwindling resources on Earth and climactic chaos. The habitats, reminiscent of the film Interstellar, could be built close enough to Earth to allow people to travel back and forth, and house “a million people or more each.”
And, according to Bezos, they’d have the “ideal climate” at all times, “like Maui on its best day, all year long.”
The founder of Amazon added: “We get to choose, do we want stasis and rationing, or do we want dynamism and growth?”
Mr Bezos was enthusiastically opening up a debate on space colonisation at the invite-only event in Washington DC on May 9th.
He said: “This is an easy choice.
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“We know what we want we just have to get busy.
“If we’re out in the solar system, we can have a trillion humans in the solar system, which means we’d have thousands of Mozarts and thousands of Einsteins.
“This would be an incredible civilization.”
The concept was first posited in the 1970s by professor O’Neill, whose proposed habitats would rotate in space to create artificial gravity based on centrifugal force.
Bezos described the structures and said: “These are very large structures, miles on end, and they hold a million people or more each.”
He added: “Some of them would be more recreational, they don’t all have to have the same gravity, they can have a recreational one that keeps it zero-g so you can go flying with your own wings.”
Mr Bezos noted they may replicate cities on Earth or start from scratch with their own futuristic architecture.
And, there would be no rain, no storms, no earthquakes.
