---
title: "People Are Roasting Jeff Bezos’ Ridiculous Space Habitats"
description: "Jeff Bezos announced plans to build giant space habitats full of cities and parks. It sounds cool in theory, but many aren't convinced."
date: "2019-05-10"
modified: "2019-05-10"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski.md"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/jeff-bezos-ridiculous-space-habitats"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
  - "Jeff Bezos"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "blue origin"
  - "jeff bezos"
  - "space"
  - "the digest"
---

# People Are Roasting Jeff Bezos’ Ridiculous Space Habitats

![Jeff Bezos announced plans to build giant space habitats full of cities and parks. It sounds cool in theory, but many aren't convinced.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/jeff-bezos-ridiculous-space-habitats.png>)
*\<em\>Image: NASA Ames Imaging Library System\</em\>*

## Big Dreams

On Thursday, [world's richest man](<https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2019/03/04/this-is-the-richest-person-in-the-world/#3844c81536db>) and [online bookstore founder](<https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/27/how-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-went-from-the-son-of-a-teen-mom-to-the-worlds-richest-person.html>) Jeff Bezos shared more details about his vision of building [gigantic, rotating orbital cities](<https://futurism.com/blue-origin-moon-lander.md>) that would allow humans to live in outer space.

Human-induced climate change is [ravaging the Earth](<https://futurism.com/climate-change-caused-humans.md>), so many of the world's most affluent people have suggested starting over in space. Bezos' vision involves [multiple space habitats](<https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/1126597192997789696>) that could serve as cities, parks, or other re-created Earth settings. The idea — which sounds as though it were inspired by a late-night viewing of the 2013 film "Elysium" — immediately got roasted on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/celiasojourn/status/1126680758867963904

## Reality Check

The idea of migrating to space to live in a billionaire's utopia sounds like it was plucked straight out of science fiction, but many people pointed out that Bezos, if he wanted, could spend much less of his money to fix things here on Earth instead of an aspirational moonshot plan to [colonize space](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/jeff-bezos-future-giant-space-colonies.md>).

https://twitter.com/fivefifths/status/1126628246487957504

https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/1126597192997789696

## Take Two

Others pointed out that Bezos' logic — that space habitats would somehow fare better than the actual planet that we would be escaping — seems questionable.

https://twitter.com/iamchrisscott/status/1126598108903817216

https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1126605903023808514

Perhaps worst of all, Bezos' extremely-futuristic space stations might not even be all that advanced — according to artistic renderings, the sci-fi orbital habitats will have us using the farming technology of yesteryear.

https://twitter.com/vendaval/status/1126846145811161090

**More on space cities:** *[Jeff Bezos: In the Future, We'll Live in "Giant Space Colonies"](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/jeff-bezos-future-giant-space-colonies.md>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://x.com/danrobitzski>)

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