Corporate Space

Elite groups are not stupid. Usually they're actually quite smart, and in the race to leave us all behind, they're taking no chances and setting up there own, privately-funded space programmes. Needs Another Seven Astronauts can't be relied upon.

But the release of the video, along with a recruitment pitch for rocket scientists, engineers and anyone with experience of space industries, proves that Mr Bezos is intent on becoming a major player in the privately-funded race for space.

Mr Branson's Virgin Galactic is already taking bookings for $200,000 flights into space it intends starting in 2009, and Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, is behind Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X-Prize for making two trips into space in 2004.

They will leave us behind when the seas boil and the land burns.

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