WEBVTT - 07: Bezos and His Unsafe Rockets

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<v Speaker 1>I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon

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<v Speaker 1>customer because you guys paid progress. You guys paid probs.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Megacore, an investigative podcast exposing some of the

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<v Speaker 1>world's most unethical corporations. This series is about Amazon. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Jake Hanrahan, journalists and documentary filmmaker. Megacorp is produced by

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<v Speaker 1>H eleven for Cool Zone Media. Today we're going to

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<v Speaker 1>be looking into Jeff Bezos is Blue Origin. Now this

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<v Speaker 1>is going to sound a bit weird, but when I

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<v Speaker 1>think of the Blue Origin project, I'm always reminded of

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<v Speaker 1>this scene from the video game Command and Conquer Red Alert,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been did

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<v Speaker 1>by capitalism. Space. Not even Command and Conquer, a war

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<v Speaker 1>game set in an alternate reality, could predict that megacorporations

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<v Speaker 1>would start to commercialize space. But here we are two

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<v Speaker 1>and Bezos, the richest man on Earth, is sending other

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<v Speaker 1>rich people into space. Will sort of into space. Blue

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<v Speaker 1>Origin doesn't actually quite get there, but we'll go into

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<v Speaker 1>that later in the episode. Now, if you don't know

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<v Speaker 1>what Blue Origin is, let's start at the beginning. Preparing

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<v Speaker 1>for a rocket towered mile per hour excursion to the

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<v Speaker 1>edge of space. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will take his

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<v Speaker 1>astral journey on the New Shepherd, a reusable rocket developed

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<v Speaker 1>by his company Blue Origet start to one, New Shepherd

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<v Speaker 1>was designed to shuttle up to six paying customers more

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<v Speaker 1>than sixty two miles above the worth surfaced for a

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<v Speaker 1>few moments of waitlessness and panoramic views burning the fires

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<v Speaker 1>their astronaut wings. So Blue Origin is Jeff Bezos is

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<v Speaker 1>private space flight company, Bezos, of course being the founder

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<v Speaker 1>of Amazon. Despite only really getting media attention in the

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<v Speaker 1>last year or so due to its several rocket launches,

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<v Speaker 1>Blue Origin was actually incorporated on the eighth of September

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<v Speaker 1>in the year two thousand. Bezos clearly had this idea

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<v Speaker 1>in his head for a long time before he made

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<v Speaker 1>it a reality. Blue Origin has several different facets to it,

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<v Speaker 1>but the main aim of the company is to make

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<v Speaker 1>it easier and cheaper for people to visit space, not

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<v Speaker 1>just astronauts or scientists or NASA, anybody who can afford it.

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<v Speaker 1>On their website, Blue Origins say they are quote committed

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<v Speaker 1>to building a road to space so our children can

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<v Speaker 1>build the future. End quote. It sounds a bit ominous

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<v Speaker 1>to me. To be honest, it's weird considering we're talking

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<v Speaker 1>about potentially colonizing space here. I'd say there's plenty to

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<v Speaker 1>be fixed on Earth before we think about that. But anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>so Blue Origin goes on to say, quote Blue Origin

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<v Speaker 1>was founded by Jeff Bezos with the vision of enabling

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<v Speaker 1>a future where millions of people are living and working

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<v Speaker 1>in space for the benefit of Earth. In order to

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<v Speaker 1>preserve Earth, Blue Origin believes that humanity will need to

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<v Speaker 1>expand explore, find new energy and material resources, and move

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<v Speaker 1>industries that stress Earth into space. Blue is working on

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<v Speaker 1>this today by developing partially and fully reusable launch vehicles

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<v Speaker 1>that are safe, low cost, and serve the needs of

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<v Speaker 1>all civil, commercial, and defense customers. Blue Origin has been

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<v Speaker 1>flight testing the new Shepherd rocket and it's redundant safety

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<v Speaker 1>systems since The program has had eighteen successful consecutive missions,

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<v Speaker 1>including three successful escape tests, showing the crew escape system

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<v Speaker 1>can activate safely in any phase of flight. End quote.

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<v Speaker 1>Now this might not be relevant, but as a side

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<v Speaker 1>note here, as I was researching all of this, it

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<v Speaker 1>struck me that the Blue Origin website feels quite amateur

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<v Speaker 1>considering the gravity of what they're doing. For example, it's

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<v Speaker 1>quite badly written with extremely long sentences. Their copyright is

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<v Speaker 1>out of day on the foot of the page. Some

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<v Speaker 1>of the photos used are out of focus or people

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<v Speaker 1>are called mid blink, and the logo isn't even at

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<v Speaker 1>the top of the site. I don't know, I'm an

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<v Speaker 1>absolute knock case for stuff like that, but I couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>go into space with them off the back of their

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<v Speaker 1>website anyway. That's Blue Origin. You might remember when Bezos

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<v Speaker 1>first went into sort of space on one of the

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<v Speaker 1>New Shepherd rockets on the the eight of July. After

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<v Speaker 1>landing back on the ground, he came out with this

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<v Speaker 1>now infamous speech, I want to thank every Amazon employee

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<v Speaker 1>and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all

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<v Speaker 1>this so seriously, for every Amazon customer out there and

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<v Speaker 1>every Amazon employee, thank you from the bottom of my

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<v Speaker 1>heart very much. It's very appreciated. At the time, when

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<v Speaker 1>Bezos came out with this at the press conference, surrounded

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<v Speaker 1>by other rich people who had just gone to sub

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<v Speaker 1>orbital space with him, Amazon was in the news for

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<v Speaker 1>surprise mistreatment of workers and union busting. As you can

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<v Speaker 1>imagine Bezos turning around and saying thanks for your custom

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<v Speaker 1>it's allowed me to fly off into space was not

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<v Speaker 1>really well received by the Amazon workers and anyone that

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<v Speaker 1>has an issue with Amazon workers being mistreated. Anyway. Blue

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<v Speaker 1>Origin stresses that to keep costs down, their rockets are

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<v Speaker 1>all about reusability, they say quote. Both New Shepherd and

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<v Speaker 1>New Glen, one of their other shuttles, have been designed

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<v Speaker 1>with reusability in mind from the beginning. Their vertical takeoff

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<v Speaker 1>vertical landing architecture enables us to reuse the first stage

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<v Speaker 1>of our launch vehicles twenty five times with minimal refurbishment,

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<v Speaker 1>resulting in twenty five times less waste because we don't

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<v Speaker 1>throw the hardware away. Both vehicles have throttle herble liquid

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<v Speaker 1>fueled engines, allowing for precision landing back on the landing platform.

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<v Speaker 1>This allows for higher asset utilization for all our vehicles,

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<v Speaker 1>which decreases the costs and increases availability for all our customers.

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<v Speaker 1>End quote. Doesn't seem that the person who wrote that

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<v Speaker 1>has ever heard of punctuation um and again on a side, No,

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<v Speaker 1>that wasn't quite verbatim, as I had to correct spelling

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<v Speaker 1>mistakes and glaringly obvious syntax typos from a Blue Origins

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<v Speaker 1>official website. But anyway, so, as I just said, Bezos

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<v Speaker 1>is Blue Origin is saying twenty five times less hardware waste.

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<v Speaker 1>But what about the environmental impact. According to the twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty two World Inequality Report, one space flight emits more

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<v Speaker 1>carbon dioxide the most of the world's population creates in

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<v Speaker 1>their entire lifetime. To me, knowing that, it seems a

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<v Speaker 1>bit ironic for Blue Origin to be talking about paving

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<v Speaker 1>the way to a brighter future for our kids when

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<v Speaker 1>they're very emmo of regular commercial space flights will destroy

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<v Speaker 1>the Earth's environment quicker. Now. It's not about do you

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<v Speaker 1>believe in climate change or anything like that. This is

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<v Speaker 1>just a fact of what is happening now. Whilst Blue

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<v Speaker 1>Origin says it wants to make commercial space travel cheap,

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<v Speaker 1>they don't mean the same kind of cheap as the

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<v Speaker 1>way most people understand it cheap to me, for example,

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<v Speaker 1>is say thirty pence for a point of milk. My

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<v Speaker 1>point is the people who will be taking these space

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<v Speaker 1>flights will almost definitely already be very rich for them.

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<v Speaker 1>Sure it might be cheap, but for your average man

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<v Speaker 1>and woman on the street, Blue Origins space trips will

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<v Speaker 1>be completely and utterly unobtainable forever. So in theory, whilst

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<v Speaker 1>these rich people are flying around like the Jetsons claiming

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<v Speaker 1>to be advancing society for us every day man and

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<v Speaker 1>woman are getting blasted in the long run with unprecedented

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<v Speaker 1>levels of carbon dioxide build up in the atmosphere. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>why does carbon dioxide matter, Well, if there's too much

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<v Speaker 1>carbon dioxide, the Earth gets too hot. If the Earth

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<v Speaker 1>gets too hot, we're all fucked. Basically, the oceans will

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<v Speaker 1>go top sick, food will become scarce, crops won't grow,

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<v Speaker 1>and brutal climate wars will undoubtedly erupt. Carbon dioxide levels

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<v Speaker 1>have been steadily rising on Earth for the past one

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<v Speaker 1>years now, hitting levels that scientists say have been unprecedented

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<v Speaker 1>for hundreds of thousands of years. So we already reckon

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<v Speaker 1>the shop due to excessive pollution where the carbon dioxide

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<v Speaker 1>level has come from. Now, the rich commercial space people

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<v Speaker 1>want to save us by dumping out a load more

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<v Speaker 1>carbon dioxide via space shuttles, will never be able to

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<v Speaker 1>afford to riding. Doesn't sound like a great deal to me.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's something from the World Inequality Report that I just

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<v Speaker 1>mentioned that really sums up all of this. In a

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<v Speaker 1>more technical manner. Quote. Perhaps the most conspicuous illustration of

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<v Speaker 1>extreme pollution associated with wealth inequality in recent years is

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<v Speaker 1>the development of space travel and eleven minutes flight emitst

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<v Speaker 1>no fewer than seventy five tons of carbon per passenger.

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<v Speaker 1>About one billion individuals emits less than one ton per

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<v Speaker 1>person per year over their lifetime. This group of one

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<v Speaker 1>billion individuals does not omit more than seventy five tons

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<v Speaker 1>of carbon per person. Ends quote. Now, they didn't say

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<v Speaker 1>which commercial space company they're referring to here, but bear

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<v Speaker 1>in mind that Bezos is Blue origin flight in July

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<v Speaker 1>was about eleven minutes long, and this article mentions and

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<v Speaker 1>eleven minutes space flight. Well, this isn't just speculation either.

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<v Speaker 1>In the U S government themselves released the report acknowledging

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<v Speaker 1>that climate change will hit low income community tease the hardest.

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<v Speaker 1>The report, known as the fourth National Climate Assessment, was

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<v Speaker 1>created by a team of more than three hundred experts

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<v Speaker 1>from the US government and the private sector. Their aim

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<v Speaker 1>was to analyze the impact of climate change on America.

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<v Speaker 1>As reported by journalist Carmen Chappelle, the government reports states

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<v Speaker 1>that low income populations quotes typically have less access to information, resources, institutions,

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<v Speaker 1>and other factors to prepare for and avoid the health

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<v Speaker 1>risks of climate change. People with a lower income usually

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<v Speaker 1>live in neighborhoods with the greatest exposure to climate and

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<v Speaker 1>extreme whether events end quote so again, the people who

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<v Speaker 1>will be hit the hardest should the world eventually crumble

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<v Speaker 1>under the weight of too much carbon monoxide will be

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<v Speaker 1>those with less money, likely the sort of people who

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<v Speaker 1>end up working in an Amazon warehouse. All of this

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<v Speaker 1>is core le just to get to the outer limits

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<v Speaker 1>of our atmosphere. That would obviously be a very cool experience.

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<v Speaker 1>It looks really cool when you see the videos of

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<v Speaker 1>Blue Origin. It's a lot of damage to the environment

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<v Speaker 1>to not actually get out into space proper. These flights

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<v Speaker 1>are sub orbital, they go to the edge of space,

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<v Speaker 1>but not Neil Armstrong or buzz Older in space right now.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just a very rich person's fairground ride dressed up

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<v Speaker 1>as the future of civilization. I wanted to talk about

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<v Speaker 1>the dangers it poses to the environment, not to be preachy,

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<v Speaker 1>but to show that when Blue Origin is talking about

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<v Speaker 1>building a future for our kids, they're either not taken

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<v Speaker 1>into account how badly this could affect people from lower

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<v Speaker 1>socio economic backgrounds, or they just don't care. You can

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<v Speaker 1>decide which when it is yourself. The carbon monoxide dumping

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<v Speaker 1>is not the only issue related to Blue Origin. As

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<v Speaker 1>is with every tentacle of the beast that is Amazon,

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<v Speaker 1>there is always a scandal of foot. Blue Origin is

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<v Speaker 1>no different. Serious allegations of past safety practices and the

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<v Speaker 1>workplace culture at Blue Origin. That's a space company founded

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<v Speaker 1>by billionaire Jeff Bezos. Ally Abrahams is one of a

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<v Speaker 1>group of current informer Blue Origin employees who have issued

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<v Speaker 1>a public letter exposing what they describe as a toxic

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<v Speaker 1>atmosphere at the Amazon founders commercial space company. She believes

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<v Speaker 1>the company's sacrifice safety because Bezos wanted to win the

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<v Speaker 1>space race last year. In September, one group of former

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<v Speaker 1>and current Blue Origin employees signed an open letter about

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<v Speaker 1>the company, a legend that Bezos had created an unsafe

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<v Speaker 1>working environment in a bid to win the billionaire commercial

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<v Speaker 1>space race. Twenty one people signed the letter, and they're

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<v Speaker 1>warning that the Blue Origin rockets could be unsafe. One

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<v Speaker 1>of the Blue Orig engineers who signed the open letter

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<v Speaker 1>went as far as to say, quote Blue Origin has

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<v Speaker 1>been lucky that nothing has happened so far. End quote.

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<v Speaker 1>The open letter goes on to say, quote today Blue

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<v Speaker 1>Origin is selling seats on rockets, stating safety is their

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<v Speaker 1>top mission, despite the fact that very few regulations are

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<v Speaker 1>in place to ensure that this is truly the case. Internally,

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<v Speaker 1>many of us did not see leadership invest in prioritizing

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<v Speaker 1>sound systems engineering practices. Systems engineering products were created for

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<v Speaker 1>New Shepherd after it was built and flying, rather than

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<v Speaker 1>in the design phase. This impacted verification efforts end quote.

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<v Speaker 1>The letter also claims that Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith

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<v Speaker 1>personally made sure that an authoritarian environment was built at

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<v Speaker 1>Blue Origin to try and stifle any issues employees working

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<v Speaker 1>there might have. As we know from previous episodes of Megacorp,

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<v Speaker 1>this is a tried and tested tactic at Amazon in

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<v Speaker 1>the case of Bezos is Blue Origin. Smith's alleged behavior

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<v Speaker 1>main lead to serious safety issues. From the letter, quote

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<v Speaker 1>professional dissent at Blue Origin is actively stifled. Smith personally

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<v Speaker 1>told one of us to not make it easy for

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<v Speaker 1>employees to ask questions at company town Halls, one of

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<v Speaker 1>the only available forums for live open discussion. Smith also

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<v Speaker 1>asked his CEO for a list of employees who were

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<v Speaker 1>troublemakers or agitators. The list was then distributed to senior

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<v Speaker 1>leaders so they could have a talk with the agitators

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<v Speaker 1>in their groups. Critics inside the company have been forced

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<v Speaker 1>out for speaking up and offering payment in exchange for

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<v Speaker 1>signing even more restrictive nondisclosure agreements, including some of the

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<v Speaker 1>engineers who ensure the very safety of the rockets. Smith's

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<v Speaker 1>in a circle of loyalists, makes unilateral decisions, often without

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<v Speaker 1>the buying of engineers, other experts, or senior leaders across

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<v Speaker 1>various departments. End quote. So, according to these twenty one

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<v Speaker 1>current and former Blue Origin employees who wrote this s

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<v Speaker 1>A slash open letter, the place is run with a

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<v Speaker 1>STARSI like attitude where profit and speed is more important

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<v Speaker 1>than safety and well being. Where we heard that before,

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<v Speaker 1>It's like as above in space with Blue Origin, so

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<v Speaker 1>below in the Amazon warehouse. Let's hear what Blue Origin

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<v Speaker 1>whistleblower Alexandra Abrahams had to say about her time at

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<v Speaker 1>Blue Origin. When I first joined Blue Origin, I felt

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<v Speaker 1>like I was in star Trek, and I think I

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<v Speaker 1>came to tears once when I was saying how grateful

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<v Speaker 1>I was to be a part of this journey. The

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<v Speaker 1>culture was one of collaboration, innovation, excitement, enthusiasm, nerdiness, which

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<v Speaker 1>I just loved. But that did not stay the same

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<v Speaker 1>for very long. She worked there as the head of

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<v Speaker 1>internal communications from Seen to before she was fired, she says,

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<v Speaker 1>because her managers claimed to have lost trust in her.

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<v Speaker 1>I spend my days telling employees how we're saving humanity

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<v Speaker 1>in the planet, and on the other end and having

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<v Speaker 1>the woolf holed over my eyes about taking rights away

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<v Speaker 1>from our employees. It was great that Blue Origin was

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<v Speaker 1>smooth and steady and slow until Jeff started becoming impatient

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<v Speaker 1>and Ellen and Branson were getting ahead, and then we

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<v Speaker 1>started to feel this increasing pressure and in patients that

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<v Speaker 1>would definitely filter down from leadership. When she's referring to

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<v Speaker 1>Musk and Branson there, she's referring, of course, to Elon

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<v Speaker 1>Musk and Richard Branson. Elon Musk owns space X, He's

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<v Speaker 1>also been sending commercial rockets up into space, and Richard

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<v Speaker 1>Branson has a similar thing with a virgin commercial space

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<v Speaker 1>shuttle thing. According to Alexandra Abraham's the pressure to beat

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<v Speaker 1>those law led to an environment of fear in the workplace.

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<v Speaker 1>You cannot create a culture of safety and a culture

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<v Speaker 1>of fear at the same time. They are incompatible. Oftentimes,

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<v Speaker 1>when I would try to reconcile what I was hearing

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<v Speaker 1>from the engineers who are close to the vehicle versus

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<v Speaker 1>leadership about risk and safety, I would often go to

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<v Speaker 1>leadership and say, Okay, how am I supposed to think

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<v Speaker 1>about this? And often the response would be, oh, well,

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<v Speaker 1>that person in particular just doesn't have a high enough

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<v Speaker 1>risk tolerance. Just doesn't have a high enough risk tolerance.

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<v Speaker 1>That wasn't bad enough. There are several allegations of sexism

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<v Speaker 1>and harassment at Blue Origin. Women in Blue Origin were

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<v Speaker 1>absolutely treated differently than men. Their ideas were not valued

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<v Speaker 1>as much, they were not listened to. So on the surface,

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<v Speaker 1>Blue Origin sounds like our gateway to a sci fire

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<v Speaker 1>type future. The human race will jump on a Jeff

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<v Speaker 1>Bezos space shuttle and go to work on different planets

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<v Speaker 1>to sort of save everyone else on Earth. In reality, though,

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<v Speaker 1>the sheer amount of carbon dioxide each trip dumped into

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<v Speaker 1>the atmosphere could potentially rapidly increase the levels of pollution

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<v Speaker 1>and global warming here on Earth. Not only that from

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<v Speaker 1>what we've just heard there was some very serious allegations

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<v Speaker 1>of safety concerns at Blue Origin. Actual engineers have s

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<v Speaker 1>and the open letter saying things like this quote. In

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<v Speaker 1>company leaders demonstrated increasing impatience with new Shepherd schedule of

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<v Speaker 1>a few flights per year. Their goal, routinely communicated to

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<v Speaker 1>operations and maintenance staff, was to scale to more than

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<v Speaker 1>forty Some of us felt that with the resources and

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<v Speaker 1>staff available, leadership's race to launch at such a breakneck

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<v Speaker 1>speed was seriously compromising flight safety. End quote. Now after

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<v Speaker 1>hearing that, bear in mind that apparently thirteen of the

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<v Speaker 1>twenty one people who signed this open letter are engineers

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<v Speaker 1>that work or have worked at various different levels in

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<v Speaker 1>Blue Origin. This isn't just somebody pulling this out of

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<v Speaker 1>thin air. These people know what they're doing. As if

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<v Speaker 1>the safety allegations weren't bad enough, there's this to top

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<v Speaker 1>it off. Allegations that a quotes former executive frequently treated

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<v Speaker 1>women in a condescending and the meaning manner, calling them

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<v Speaker 1>baby girl, baby doll, or sweetheart, and inquiring about their

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<v Speaker 1>dating lives. His inappropriate behavior was so well known that

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<v Speaker 1>some women at the company took to warning new female

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<v Speaker 1>hires to stay away from him all while he was

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<v Speaker 1>in charge of recruiting employees. It appeared that he was

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<v Speaker 1>protected by his close personal relationship with Bezos. It took

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<v Speaker 1>him physically groping female subordinate for him to finally be

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<v Speaker 1>let go end quote. Like with other things under the

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<v Speaker 1>umbrella of Amazon, it sounds to me like top to bottom,

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<v Speaker 1>there are very serious problems at Blue Origin. The thing

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<v Speaker 1>that really spooked me the most, though, was something said

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<v Speaker 1>by one of the engineers internally. CBS News obtained this.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a Blue Origin internal memo written by one of

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<v Speaker 1>their engineers. In In it, the engineer wrote, quote, our

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<v Speaker 1>path is not a sufficiently safe path. End quote, Blue

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<v Speaker 1>Origin not a sufficiently safe path. On the next episode

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<v Speaker 1>of Megacorp, will be looking at a specific set of

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<v Speaker 1>individual scandals at Amazon that don't really fit into their

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<v Speaker 1>own box. They concern Amazon warehouse workers, drivers, and the

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<v Speaker 1>choice of security guards that Amazon have once hired. Megacorp

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