![]() But it demonstrates the depressed mindset that a good part of humankind – faced with ever scarcer resources and dying nature – has adopted. Of course this is complete nonsense because earth will be bathing in 173 petawatts (that’s a number with 15 zeros) of fresh solar energy for the next 5 billion years or so. In this view, all we can do to prolong this process of decay and chaos is to reduce the human energy footprint to the lowest possible level. There are even other smart people that beliefe life on earth will end in high entropy chaos and decay because we are converting all available high quality energy forms into lower forms to power our civilization on the difference. And we haven’t even started talking about the permanent damage that is done to the ecosphere of our planet by extracting and processing those ever harder to obtain resources. The 6 billion poor people want to live like the richest billion, and who could blame them for that desire? It just won’t be possible if we divide up all resources that are still available. We are extracting everything that mother earth has to offer at exponential increasing speed. When thinking about resources, most people have a very depressing view of the future. But why space, such a hard and long term endeavor, why not just simply betting on the next billion dollar app? It’s because of the question these people are asking: what are the biggest challenges humankind is facing? One of those challenges is increasing population vs. When top billionaire entrepreneurs start to invest in something new, we may see the formation of a new trend. But secondly, they invest in space companies. ![]() What do have Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Robert Bigelow, Ross Perot Jr, Paul Alan and Peter Thiel in common? Well, first of course, they are billionaires.
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