{"id":11010,"date":"2020-10-24T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11010"},"modified":"2020-10-25T12:49:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T19:49:28","slug":"elysium-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/24\/elysium-realism\/","title":{"rendered":"Elysium Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/elysium-effect-billionaire-space-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from SPACE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Elysium effect: The coming backlash to the billionaire &#8216;NewSpace&#8217; revolution<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/author\/rick-tumlinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rick Tumlinson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Billionaire Space Club\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y4Iu8lFS1JY?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2013 science fiction film &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/22318-elysium-movie-review-science-fiction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elysium<\/a>&#8221; starring Matt Damon, Earth&#8217;s wealthiest 0.01% move to the ultimate gated community, a luxurious orbiting space colony, leaving a poverty-stricken humanity to fend for themselves on a ravaged planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, it is indeed some of today&#8217;s 0.1% who are leading the way into space to build communities beyond Earth. However, quite the opposite of the movie, their goals are of the highest order, from democratizing access to space by lowering costs, to creating new products and ideas, to helping save the planet and opening space to future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As in any good social movement, there is a need for bad guys, and these guys are easy icons of evil to many. And there may be no easier target they could present than a shiny private rocketship or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/nasa-commercial-space-stations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">space station<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 even if it is for a good cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though they have many flaws, including the accumulation of lots of money, these space pioneers are actually trying to do something good for humanity and the planet. And while they may not be the cuddliest of people, just look at their other projects and goals: Musk builds\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/22368-elon-musk-is-changing-the-world.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">electric cars and solar power systems<\/a>, Bezos wants to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-climate-change-fight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">move polluting heavy industry off planet<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; even as Amazon pushes towards zero emissions, and Branson is a long time champion of social and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/58469-richard-branson-tells-dairy-farmers-to-grow-weed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">environmental causes<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet these visionaries, who author Christian Davenport called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=72128&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSpace-Barons-Bezos-Colonize-Cosmos%2Fdp%2F1610398297%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dspace-us-3649559817886182400-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Space Barons<\/a>&#8221; are often portrayed as rich boys with fancy toys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things will get worse when the next wave of terribly branded &#8220;space tourists&#8221; begin to fly. Bezos&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/19584-blue-origin-quiet-plans-for-spaceships.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blue Origin<\/a>\u00a0and Branson&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18993-virgin-galactic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Virgin Galactic<\/a>\u00a0will charge over $200,000 for excursions to the edge of space, while newcomer Axiom Space Systems and SpaceX will offer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-axiom-space-launching-private-astronauts-in-2021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flights to and beyond the International Space Station<\/a>\u00a0for a few tens of millions, and even loop the Moon for a just few hundred million more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/elysium-effect-billionaire-space-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at SPACE.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from SPACE The Elysium effect: The coming backlash to the billionaire &#8216;NewSpace&#8217; revolution By\u00a0Rick Tumlinson In the 2013 science fiction film &#8220;Elysium&#8221; starring Matt Damon, Earth&#8217;s wealthiest 0.01% move to the ultimate gated community, a luxurious orbiting space colony, leaving a poverty-stricken humanity to fend for themselves on a ravaged planet. 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