Report by Tanya:
Unlike outgoing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Bill Gates isn’t very interested in bringing humans into space.
The Microsoft cofounder explained why he hasn’t gotten involved in Bezos and Musk’s space race during an appearance on Kara Swisher’s “Sway” podcast Monday.
“No, I’m not a Mars person. I know a lot of Mars people,” he said. “I don’t think rockets are the solution. But maybe I’m missing something there.”
While Gates believes that Tesla and other companies are doing great work but it’s on “easy stuff like passenger cars.” He believes that there is a need to look beyond that. “ “We’re basically not doing enough on the hard stuff: steel, cement, meat,” he said. “And sadly, the things people think about — the electricity, passenger cars — are a third of the problem,” he told CNBC.
Gates said he would rather spend money on measles vaccines than travel to space on a rocket. “I’m not going to pay a lot of money because my foundation can buy measles vaccines and save a life for $ 1,000. So whatever I do, I still think, OK, I could spend that $ 1,000 to buy a measles vaccine.
Meanwhile, Musk isn’t a ‘fan’ of Gates as such. In the past, he has said that Gates has no clue about electric trucks. Musk has also said that he found Gates “underwhelming” when he spoke to him.
