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The @blueorigin event is officially starting with some cool Tycho-ish music and Apollo comms over it. I like. Should I do one thread here on twitter or individual tweets?
What would you prefer?
Lights went dark. Apollo 11 clips on two side monitors!
@JeffBezos has taken the stage and is talking about his love for space, starting from his high school years.
"Earth is no longer big, humanity is big"
Talking a lot about humanities problems. Current and long term. Talking a lot about power usage and how much each humans consume.
Crazy! 
Pondering what would happen if there were 1 trillion humans? Where would they live...
Now he’s showing off advanced space colonies and concepts developed years and years ago by Gerard O’Neill. “O’Neill colonies / cylinders”
Earth will be zoned residential and light industry. Then move all pollution and nasty stuff off Earth.
This generations job is to build “The road to space” the infrastructure to make space colonies possible.
Showing off New Shepard and how they’ve flown two boosters 5 times each.
“We’re going to fly humans THIS YEAR” with New Shepard. 🙌
“Vertical landing gets easier the bigger the vehicle” scales well, like a short broom vs a long broom
3.9 million pounds of thrust. All of New Shepard can fit inside New Glenn’s payload fairing.
They’re showing the New Glenn video after talking about how reliability, on time and cost are important.
New Glenn is designed to be human rated!
Cost to fuel New Glenn is less than $1,000,000.
The moon has resources
I love this infographic.
“Big things start small”
Event is over... kids are going up on stage for a photo. No Q&A. No updates on New Glenn timeline.
