Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos: It's Getting Ugly

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Special thanks to the following for permission to their material:
Tijn M for Starship lunar lander animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUZnve3TSe0&t=1s

Thumbnail source:
Elon Musk photo: NASA
Jeff Bezos photo: Daniel Oberhaus, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Sources:
0:11 Photo of Musk and Bezos at a dinner https://www.edge.org/event/edge-master-class-2008-richard-thaler-sendhil-mullainathan-daniel-kahneman-a-short-course-in
0:40 Steve Jurvetson CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/2997189347/in/album-72157608597030651/
1:14 SpaceNews article https://spacenews.com/37389musk-calls-out-blue-origin-ula-for-phony-blocking-tactic-on-shuttle-pad/
3:58 Starship moon animation by Tijn M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUZnve3TSe0&t=1s
4:46 Photo on left: Tim Reckmann from Hamm, Deutschland, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
4:46 Photo on right: Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
5:33 Elon Musk photo courtesy of NASA
7:41 Full BBC interview with technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0871VJfvD1c&t=1s

Books mentioned in the video (these are not affiliate links):
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos by Christian Davenport https://amzn.to/3hguexe
Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone https://amzn.to/38PWSk8
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance https://amzn.to/3yWelSK