If you're thinking of say, hopping on a plane for a short getaway, think again. Well, that's at least if you listen to Jeff Bezos' latest ideas about humanity living in space.
In his vision we'll have the ability to hop between living in space and flitting back to Earth for a visits if we want to. The Amazon and Blue Origin founder, 59, was a guest on the Lex Fridman podcast and spoke about living in space.
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He told Fridman, who is a computer scientist and podcaster: "I would love to see a trillion humans living in the solar system.
"If we had a trillion humans we would have at any given time a 1000 Mozarts and a 1000 Einsteins that... our solar system would be full of life and intelligence and energy.
"And we can easily support a civilization that large with all of the resources in the solar system."
Can we? Well, Bezos, who stepped down as the chief executive of Amazon in 2021, explained his vision.
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He said: "The only way to get to that vision is with giant space stations, you know, the planetary surfaces are just way too small. So you can I mean, unless you turn them into giant space stations or something, but we will take materials from the moon and from near Earth objects and from the asteroid belt, and so on."
You'd have to build "giant O'Neill style colonies", he explained, referencing physicist Gerard K. O’Neill and his proposals in a book to build space settlements known as O'Neill cylinders or colonies.
Bezos explained: "And people will live in those and they have a lot of advantages over planetary surfaces, you can spin them to get normal Earth gravity, you can put them where you want them. I think most people are going to want to live near Earth, not necessarily in Earth orbit... but in Earth vicinity orbits and so they can move relatively quickly back and forth between their station Earth.
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"But I think a lot of people, especially in the early stages are not going to want to give up Earth altogether".
In November Bezos announced his plans to leave Seattle and return to living in Miami, where he spent his high school years, so he could be closer to his parents and partner Lauren Sanchez.
Speaking to Fridman, he revealed his morning routine is having a coffee, reading his phone and newspapers, but he said he generally "moves slowly" in the first couple of hours.
He also hits the gym where he said on a "good day" he'll do "about half an hour of cardio, and I do about 45 minutes of weightlifting, resistance training of some kind, mostly weights".
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Asked about keeping focus during work, he said he does "little thinking retreats" and revealed how he likes to start meetings - and it's just not what we expected.
He explained: "I don't keep to a strict schedule, like my meetings often go longer than I planned for them to because I believe in wondering... my perfect meeting starts with a crisp document.
"So the document should be written with such clarity that it's like angels singing from on high.
"I like a crisp document and a messy meeting. And so the meeting is about asking questions that nobody knows the answer to, and trying to, like, wander your way to a solution.
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"And that is, if when that happens just right, it makes all the other meetings worthwhile... it has a has a kind of beauty to it. It has an aesthetic beauty to it. And you get real breakthroughs in meetings like that".