Jeff Bezos thanks everyone for giving him money

Amazon employees and customers should be thrilled to know that the richest man in the world appreciates you for funding his 10-minute skydive (space trip) today. At a post-flight briefing, that motherfucker in the cowboy hat actually said the quiet part out loud:

“I also want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer for paying for all of this.”

Now thank him in return for your high paying jobs with plenty of career development opportunities. Go back to work.

If for no other reason someone had to pay for Jeff Bezos’ rebranding campaign from overlord to astronaut in the midst of a multi-billion dollar space war with Elon Musk, it’s time to consider a tax. spatial.

Today, Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) introduced the idea in a press release of the Securing Carbon Shields Tax Bill (SPACE), noting that “space exploration n it’s not a tax-free * holiday for the rich. “(Vacation * lasting 1 / 144th of a day.)” Just as normal Americans pay taxes when they buy plane tickets, billionaires who fly in space to produce nothing. scientific merit should do the same, and then some. ”NASA missions intended to advance scientific knowledge would be exempt.

The proposal dovetails with Blue Origin’s numerous mid-mission announcements that ticket sales are open, and judging by the New Shepard auction winner’s $ 30 million bid.who ultimately chose not to join), the prices will be high. As Business Insider reported, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic plans to send people to the edge of space for $ 250,000. Four people paid $ 55 million each for SpaceX’s considerably longer 2-day trip, scheduled for 2022.

Billionaires, salivate on their shot to push their heads a few miles into space and go “impressive,“Give back to the planet in pollution. Bezos booster works with a mixture of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, the materials do not emit carbon when burned, but Earther’s Dharna Noor has highlighted that the generation of liquid hydrogen often emits a ton of carbon. Branson’s fantasy planes use hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB), the production of which also rejects emissions.

While the damage from occasional launches is relatively minor, Blumenauer notes that Branson’s Virgin Galactic plans to launch flights. every 32 hours.

The law would levy “a tax per passenger on the price of a commercial flight to space, as with commercial aviation.” It would also charge a launch fee, which would be considerably higher if the trip exceeds 80 miles above the Earth’s surface. (As Blue Origin has told us repeatedly, space is 62 miles above sea level, above the height reached by Richard Branson.)

Space Guardians Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk more or less not paying taxes, but their rocket companies are happy to take US government money.

But such worldly thought is not that of the enlightened astronaut. In what Earthbound media described as a “press conference,” Jeff Bezos made a vague announcement about some kind of Blade Runner program against extraterrestrial industrial pollution. Earther has ideas on the currently limited logistics capacity for such a business.