Bill Gates is involved in multiple projects, but space travel is not one of them and he has explained why.
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson share more than just running large companies known to all or their enormous purchasing power, they are also very interested in the space race and direct their efforts to achieve success in this regard. It is a business struggle that they value as of great importance for the future.
It cannot be denied that there is some controversy with these companies and when Jeff Bezos arrived in space it could be seen that it is also a question of egos. Everyone has their own opinion about it and recently we have been able to know that of Bill Gates.
Bill Gates is involved in many business projects and philanthropists through its foundation or third-party financing, but he has not shown interest in joining the space race in any way and has been asked about it.
In the well-known American program The Late Late Show, a special called Climate Night and the former head of Microsoft have premiered this week has been interviewed through Zoom. This is a show where the humor is continuous and host James Corden has his own style of interviewing.
During the meeting with Bill Gates, he thanked him as soon as he connected “be the only billionaire who’s not trying to escape Earth in a spaceship right now“Then he asked.”Why is this something that billionaires are obsessed with right now? What do you think about it?“.
Bill Gates’s response was more geared towards his concerns: “I don’t know, I’ve become obsessed with things like malaria and HIV and getting rid of those diseases, and I probably bored people at cocktails talking about diseases.“. Finally, he sentenced with”Space? We have a lot to do on Earth”.
One might think that the response was polite, although the messages from Corden and Gates hide some criticism towards this space race that we are living.