Petition: Stop Jeff Bezos' return to Earth

Dustin Jones (NPR, 6/20/21); Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Amazon.com richest-man-in-the-world Jeff Bezos will join his brother Mark, one paying ($28 million) auction winner, and another unnamed person on the Blue Origin rocket bound for "space" in July.

What is space? Bezos' Blue Origin has determined it starts 62 miles up.

­­On July 20, 2021, Amazon's founder and billionaire magnate Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark will board the New Shepard "suborbital" rocket system.

Dick Branson's Virgin Galactic chases Elon Musk.

The Bezos brothers, one auction winner who had $28 million to spare, and a fourth person will become the first crew aboard the reusable rocket for its 11-minute voyage to "space." That may mean 5.5 minute into space and 5.5 minutes back.

Since Bezos made the announcement about his journey into the final frontier this month, tens of thousands of people have come together to petition against his return to Earth.

Bezos is going to "space" (for a few minutes)

This is a fake NASA CGI shot in a swimming pool with a green screen, curve added, and tilted.

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There are multiple petitions out there. The frontrunner -- "Do not allow Jeff Bezos to return to Earth" (change.org/p/the-proletariat...) -- had collected more than 33,000 signatures by late Sunday.

"Billionaires should not exist," the description reads, "on Earth, or in space, but should they decide the latter they should stay there."

Bezos is the founder of the [copycat] space exploration company Blue Origin [like Dick Branson's Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk's Space X], which built New Shepard. The rocket is reusable and has capacity for six passengers in its capsule. More