Peter Diamandis: Taking the next giant leap in space

http://www.ted.com Peter Diamandis says it's our moral imperative to keep exploring space -- and he talks about how, with the X Prize and other incentives, we're going to do just that.

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[ThePsychoReturns]

This guy is a part of the small fraction of humanity I still have faith in.

Good work, sir.

[arevolutionwithin]

Explore both at the same time =)

[cipher2]

@crudhousefull Me too,, why would they? I was near homeless when I posted my comment so to hear this assclown pitching a product that costs as much as feeding multiple thousands of dollars kinda bothered me. Human progress can still take place without marketing high price services such as this. As far as investors go, I may never understand why someone needs so much money, is it so they can have more stuff? For the record if ANYONE out there purchases this product then they ARE very selfish!

[crudhousefull]

@cipher2 I doubt they have it under their mattress. People talk about people's net worth. That means that 99% of their money is invested in something productive. When money accumulates what you can see is that people get to invest in bigger and bigger ventures with greater impacts on people. Look at Microsoft for example. If you really look into it, just see how many lives it has brought into the 21st century over the past ten years.

[mathijsblomme]

This man will change humanity

[AdioEmerica]

@cipher2 haha i agree its an extremely greedy thing to do, and anyone who has that kind of money has obviously exploited the system. either way, I can honestly say im jealous of them

[cipher2]

@AdioEmerica True I do agree with you there, the human sex drive is way too potent. Plus I'm sick of bumping into people all the time. Still though, that is a huge chunk of dough and for what? Hoarding money is disgusting, especially when there is so much that can be done with it. Put the money into something that benefits more than a couple hundred humans who are so rich they can spill out thousands on a frivolous venture. What do you do with your money, hide it up your butt?

[AdioEmerica]

@cipher2 we don't need to save lives... our planet is rapidly becoming overpopulated and after we reach peak capacity how do we decide who lives and who dies?

[cipher2]

Why would anyone spend $100 million for one trip to orbit? I know it would be cool but how utterly selfish, I mean think of how many lives you could impact with that money. Many many people! It's the Jay Leno syndrome, let's invest in each other rather than see how many cars we can collect, especially in this economy.

[PetranGavrosForever]

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[saminthehat]

@hozayamz Explain, por favor.

[hozayamz]

Yeah, we're going to be blasted into space, alright. These x-prize people are absolutely the lowest form of life on earth. People are going to starve to death in this country- the same forces that pay Peter Diamandis to lie to us- are the ones who are planning to kill us off. Always solutions to problems that have been scientifically created. What's it like in space? Just sit down in an industrial sized x-ray machine and crank it to "11"-