Comments on: Bezos vs Musk vs Branson: The Space Race of Modern Era

By: Liji

Liji — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:24:28 +0000

Great post Abhinav! The Space Race is on.
To draw parallels with the launch of any Next Big Thing, competition is fierce. In the beginning, any tech witnesses such gatekeeping. E.g. Artificial Intelligence. The democratisation of AI services and platforms have a huge role to play in increasing the tech players and turning the AI hype to reality.
Its a matter of time but until then theres understandably a want to be remembered as the first or one of the firsts. Fortunately, there’s plenty of space in Space. Take it easy folks!

By: Abhinav Goel

Abhinav Goel — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 11:24:44 +0000

In reply to Ibrahim Nasir. Fair point Ibrahim, but yes, space travel is now more real than ever indeed!

By: Ibrahim Nasir

Ibrahim Nasir — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:46:13 +0000

Great article Abhinav,

I agree with you that sharing resources and research will make space tourism and interplanetary travel achievable much faster and looking at the cost of each individual travel and the risk involved, it will mean saving a lot of money for these companies.
But doing so can also create a monopoly by making it hard for new comers. Even if they unite under “planet earth” and presumably open-source all findings, it might still be hard for a small start-up to challenge or compete with them.
All in all, I’m excited about what the future holds for space travel and pray it becomes possible AND affordable in our lifetime.