Jeff Bezos

In a different domain. There are a thousand ways to be smart, by the way. And that is a really... When I go around and I meet people, I'm always looking for the way that they're smart. And you find it is... That's one of the things that makes the world... so interesting and fun is that it's not like IQ is a single dimension. There are people who are smart in such unique ways.

In a different domain. There are a thousand ways to be smart, by the way. And that is a really... When I go around and I meet people, I'm always looking for the way that they're smart. And you find it is... That's one of the things that makes the world... so interesting and fun is that it's not like IQ is a single dimension. There are people who are smart in such unique ways.

In a different domain. There are a thousand ways to be smart, by the way. And that is a really... When I go around and I meet people, I'm always looking for the way that they're smart. And you find it is... That's one of the things that makes the world... so interesting and fun is that it's not like IQ is a single dimension. There are people who are smart in such unique ways.

You know, there's a thousand ways to be smart, sir. Well, they might tell you, yeah, but there are a million ways to be dumb. I feel like that's a Mark Twain quote.

You know, there's a thousand ways to be smart, sir. Well, they might tell you, yeah, but there are a million ways to be dumb. I feel like that's a Mark Twain quote.

You know, there's a thousand ways to be smart, sir. Well, they might tell you, yeah, but there are a million ways to be dumb. I feel like that's a Mark Twain quote.

Sure. New Glenn is a very large heavy lift launch vehicle. It'll take about 45 metric tons to LEO, a very large class. It's about half the thrust, a little more than half the thrust, of the Saturn V rocket. So it's about 3.9 million pounds of thrust on liftoff. The booster has seven BE-4 engines. Each engine generates a little more than 550,000 pounds of thrust.

Sure. New Glenn is a very large heavy lift launch vehicle. It'll take about 45 metric tons to LEO, a very large class. It's about half the thrust, a little more than half the thrust, of the Saturn V rocket. So it's about 3.9 million pounds of thrust on liftoff. The booster has seven BE-4 engines. Each engine generates a little more than 550,000 pounds of thrust.

Sure. New Glenn is a very large heavy lift launch vehicle. It'll take about 45 metric tons to LEO, a very large class. It's about half the thrust, a little more than half the thrust, of the Saturn V rocket. So it's about 3.9 million pounds of thrust on liftoff. The booster has seven BE-4 engines. Each engine generates a little more than 550,000 pounds of thrust.

The engines are fueled by liquid natural gas, liquefied natural gas, LNG. as the fuel and LOX as the oxidizer. The cycle is an ox-rich stage combustion cycle. It's a cycle that was really pioneered by the Russians. It's a very good cycle. And that engine is also going to power the first stage of the Vulcan rocket, which is the United Launch Alliance rocket.

The engines are fueled by liquid natural gas, liquefied natural gas, LNG. as the fuel and LOX as the oxidizer. The cycle is an ox-rich stage combustion cycle. It's a cycle that was really pioneered by the Russians. It's a very good cycle. And that engine is also going to power the first stage of the Vulcan rocket, which is the United Launch Alliance rocket.

The engines are fueled by liquid natural gas, liquefied natural gas, LNG. as the fuel and LOX as the oxidizer. The cycle is an ox-rich stage combustion cycle. It's a cycle that was really pioneered by the Russians. It's a very good cycle. And that engine is also going to power the first stage of the Vulcan rocket, which is the United Launch Alliance rocket.

Then the second stage of New Glenn is powered by two BE3U engines, which is a upper stage variant of our New Shepard liquid hydrogen engine. So the BE3U has 160,000 pounds of thrust, so two of those 320,000 pounds of thrust. And hydrogen is a very good propellant for upper stages because it has very high ISP.

Then the second stage of New Glenn is powered by two BE3U engines, which is a upper stage variant of our New Shepard liquid hydrogen engine. So the BE3U has 160,000 pounds of thrust, so two of those 320,000 pounds of thrust. And hydrogen is a very good propellant for upper stages because it has very high ISP.

Then the second stage of New Glenn is powered by two BE3U engines, which is a upper stage variant of our New Shepard liquid hydrogen engine. So the BE3U has 160,000 pounds of thrust, so two of those 320,000 pounds of thrust. And hydrogen is a very good propellant for upper stages because it has very high ISP.

It's not a great propellant, in my view, for booster stages because the stages then get physically so large. has very high ISP, but liquid hydrogen is not dense at all. So to store liquid hydrogen, if you need to store many thousands of pounds of liquid hydrogen, your liquid hydrogen tank gets very large. So you get more benefit from the higher ISP, the specific impulse.

It's not a great propellant, in my view, for booster stages because the stages then get physically so large. has very high ISP, but liquid hydrogen is not dense at all. So to store liquid hydrogen, if you need to store many thousands of pounds of liquid hydrogen, your liquid hydrogen tank gets very large. So you get more benefit from the higher ISP, the specific impulse.

It's not a great propellant, in my view, for booster stages because the stages then get physically so large. has very high ISP, but liquid hydrogen is not dense at all. So to store liquid hydrogen, if you need to store many thousands of pounds of liquid hydrogen, your liquid hydrogen tank gets very large. So you get more benefit from the higher ISP, the specific impulse.

You get more benefit from the higher specific impulse on the second stage. And that stage carries less propellant, so you don't get such geometrically gigantic tanks. The Delta IV is an example of a vehicle that is all hydrogen. The booster stage is also hydrogen. And I think that it's a very effective vehicle, but it never was very cost effective.

You get more benefit from the higher specific impulse on the second stage. And that stage carries less propellant, so you don't get such geometrically gigantic tanks. The Delta IV is an example of a vehicle that is all hydrogen. The booster stage is also hydrogen. And I think that it's a very effective vehicle, but it never was very cost effective.