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William Shatner says we should live and work in space - but take holidays on Earth

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Star Trek but actor William Shatner predicts we’ll be working away from Earth and using it as our holiday destination within 100 years.

The Captain Kirk legend, who last year became the oldest human to fly into space, reckons its the way to save our planet.Shatner, 91, says: “The idea is to get people accustomed to going into space, and then have the population excited about the idea of sending polluting industries up into space.READ NEXT: 3D-printed Swiss 'marshmallow' house could be Elon Musk's dream Mars home “So the industries that are polluting send their energy down mechanically.“You come down here every two weeks to enjoy the beauty of Earth and go up there and work.

The technology exists. It’s the ambition and the money.” The idea is being promoted by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who took Shatner into space aboard his Blue Origin flight last October.

It would see processes such as the manufacturing of computer chips taking place in outer space.Shatner laughs: “I said to him, ‘But that’s 100 years.

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