FULL DISCUSSION: Jeff Bezos Unveils Prometheus AI, Predicts Space Computing Will Transform the World

Channel: DRM News
Duration: ~53 minutes
Raw Transcript

Thank you. Okay. This is the session you are all waiting for and I I’m asking for a little bit of your attention. So, Vivate started with a simple audacious idea. The future doesn’t just happen. It gets built. built by people bold enough to imagine it and stubborn enough to make it real. The founders, the risktakers, the ones who look at impossible and here not yet. Jeff Bezos is one of these people, a remarkable entrepreneur who started the simple idea of everything in store online with books. And you know what happened with Amazon? now flying rockets to new frontiers and step by step or ferociously together with David Limp they are building a new road to space with blue origin.

Please join me in welcoming to the Vivate stage in conversation with former NASA astronaut Mike Masimino who helped save the Hubble Space Telescope, the CEO of Blue Origin, David Lim, and the founder of Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos. You will see a short film and immediately after that short film they will be joining on stage.

We have a gift this nearby body called the moon that if we move out into the solar system we have unlimited resources.

Command engine start. into [music and singing] the soul thrust.

This is blue moon.

It’s a very large lander.

It will be the largest lander to ever land on the moon. That opens up [music] huge possibilities.

It’ll soft land in precise way onto the lunar surface. None of this is easy. All of it is hard. There’s still a lot of work to do and a lot of hard work to come.

Mark 1 is a Blue Origin funded mission. High risk, [music] high reward.

Mark 2 is a complete Blue Origin solution. Very ambitious. Reliable, [music] repeatable, lowcost access to the moon. We will now have lunar permanence.

It’s time to go back to the moon. This time to stay.

[applause] [cheering] [applause]

Okay. Well, thank you very much for that warm welcome. Uh, thanks Dave and Jeff for having me join you up here on the stage. It’s a real honor for me to be here with you guys. Uh we’re going to start off with um talking about a little bit of what we saw in the video. Anomalies and end response resiliency. If you look across the history of space flight, this is nothing new, right? There’s been setbacks going back to Mercury, Apollo, space shuttle. I’m certainly familiar with those setbacks that we had. And from the outside, people might look at that and think of that as a failure. But for those of us on the inside, in the industry, it’s kind of part of the engineering development process. you know, you want to learn from it and and move on if you can. Um, as we saw in the video a few weeks ago, you guys had had a setback and [clears throat] uh now you’re in the beginning phases of rebuilding your launchpad. What have you learned since and how does the path forward look?

Well, let me start by saying that was a rough moment.

Nobody likes that. It was a gut punch for the whole team. Uh but uh what we’ve learned since then is we got really lucky. Uh the some of the long lead items on the on the in the launch infrastructure were uh preserved. Uh the for example the propellant tank farm, all the liquid hydrogen, liqufied natural gas, liquid oxygen, all those tanks, those are you know very long lead items and and they were fortunately undamaged. the booster. We had a booster in the integration facility which is right there at the launchpad and various pieces of shrapnel missed the booster. There was a lot of good luck in that incident. Uh you know at in the big picture kind of what you’re saying uh God knows how to appropriately price his goods and uh space travel is hard and it’s worth it. And so, you know, we uh by the way, by the end of that incident, the end of the day that that incident occurred, within 24 hours, completely spontaneously, the Blue Origin team, and this is a team of just incredible people, they were making themselves t-shirts that say, “It’s worth it.”

Yeah. Cool.

Cool. Very cool. [applause]

And uh I think the other thing is that we’re busily rebuilding it. We we got lucky in another way. There was a construction crew just down the road and so we brought in 400 pieces of heavy equipment uh brought in uh construction workers that were working 24 by7 and so the pad has now been cleared of all the debris. It’s it’s amazing how quickly that’s happened. And just yesterday we started the reconstruction and uh I think you’ve said it best. We’re going to fly this year.

Yeah, we’ll fly before the end of the year. Yeah. Awesome. Awesome. I I think what you said about your team uh is very meaningful and I look back at my my time at NASA and you know the highlights of course successful space flights but when you look at the setbacks the way you respond to them you find out what your team is made of right you don’t find out necessarily in the good times been in those times that are a little bit tougher and you guys have gotten got a great team and a lot of support from NASA on this and it sounds great with the plan moving forward Jeeoff I want to pick up on something you you you said um about that It’s worth it. It’s kind of like you’re now even though this happened, you’re doubling down on it’s worth it when others might not have continued, right? It’s you could also have decided not to move forward. Share with us your vision and why it is worth it to you.

Well, uh you know what we’re trying to do is build all the infrastructure so there can be a completely dynamic space economy. uh today the cost of admission to space is still very high. If you look back at what I witnessed in the internet space over the last you know two and a half decades you saw an environment where because all this infrastructure existed the global networks and so on so on very small companies could build very large enterprises you know two kids in a dorm room could build a giant company and we want space to be like that. You want space to be this dynamic entrepreneurial place where two kids in a dorm room can build an incredible space company and and that’s that is going to happen. Uh you know so the the job of a company like Blue Origin is to help build the road to space that heavy infrastructure so that many other companies can do incredible things and there are so many resources in space. You’re seeing that now with you know LEO constellations and uh the potential for orbital compute. Uh we have the moon as a gift. It’s right there. Uh and so we’re working on all these things. We’re we’re working on insitu resource projects. So we’re learning how to build uh solar cells out of lunar regalith and and there are many other initiatives that we’re undertaking, but all of them are focused on building this infrastructure so there can be dynamism in the space economy.

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