The O'Neill Cylinder (Image: GETTY)
His vision revolves around the concept of rotating cylinders in space, many miles in length and breadth that were envisioned by Mr Bezos’ former Princeton professor, Gerard O'Neill. Living in these space-based human habitats, dubbed O’Neill Cylinders, or O’Neill Colonies, may choose to be “an easy choice” claims Mr Bezos, when faced with dwindling resources on Earth and climactic chaos. The habitats, reminiscent of the film Interstellar, could be built close enough to Earth to allow people to travel back and forth, and house “a million people or more each.”
And, according to Bezos, they’d have the “ideal climate” at all times, “like Maui on its best day, all year long.”
The founder of Amazon added: “We get to choose, do we want stasis and rationing, or do we want dynamism and growth?”
Mr Bezos was enthusiastically opening up a debate on space colonisation at
