Rebirth in a Perfect Era Chapter 1785: Burn some money to give it a try
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In the words of Elon · Musk, most of the technology is stacked, and between technology and technology, it is like doing an arrangement and combination. The more technologies you have in your hand, the more tricks you can play. many.
Elon · Musk has been pursuing the next dimension, such as new energy vehicles, autonomous driving, recyclable rockets, and even sending humans to Mars.
Taking advantage of this visit to Yanjing to discuss the next Tesla move into China, and the cooperation between Tesla and other car brands of Li Mu, Elon · Musk just pulled Li Mu after eating with Li Mu in his hotel room There was a long talk in the knee.
He first talked with Li Mu about the importance of technology stacking. The topic still starts with the car.
He said to Li Mu: "Chief Li, in fact, this technology is really interesting, you see, if we install adaptive cruise to a car, we can take advantage of the adaptive cruise radar hardware development Pre-collision system. "
Li Mu said: "Don't you let me go home at night, just to popularize car technology for me?"
Musk smiled and said: "Look, I plan to start with automotive technology first."
Li Mu said: "I understand what you mean, make a light bulb today, make a battery tomorrow, and combine it to make a flashlight. After two days, make a motor and make more battery strings together. It is an electric Car, you mean that, do n’t you? "
Musk nodded: "Almost ..."
Li Mu smiled: "I may not be able to figure out how the battery stores power, but how the battery should be used, I know what you want to say, you are just dragging me to sneaky. "
Musk found out that it was seen by Li Mu and smiled awkwardly and said, "Chief Li, I actually want to talk to you about space exploration."
"Space Exploration Ah?" Li Mu asked curiously: "Where to explore?"
Musk busy said: "Exploring other stars, such as Mars."
Li Mu said: "Isn't NASA doing this? A Mars rover was also issued, what else are you going to explore?"
Musk seriously said: "NASA just sent the rover to Mars, but did not send people to Mars. My goal is to send people to Mars first, and then try to emigrate to Mars."
Li Mu was stunned. previous life had heard about your immigration to Mars plan, but until I was reborn, I never saw you send people to Mars ...
So Li Mu asked him, "How are you going to do this?"
Musk said: "Of course, relying on SpaceX, our current research direction is mainly reusable carrier rockets, and our rockets will continue to increase their carrying capacity in the future, aligning with NASA ’s Saturn V, even surpassing Saturn V Number. "
"Once we have realized a heavy-duty recyclable rocket, our cost per kilogram may be reduced to one-tenth or less of the current mainstream launch cost."
"In this way, we have the foundation to go to Mars."
"For example, we build a spaceship that can reach the Mars log in, and then use our recyclable launch vehicle to continuously launch space station components into space to build a large space station in space orbit. The process is like you. Drive a truck, and gradually transport the building materials that can build a house from the port of Tianjin to Yanjing. Building a house may require hundreds of tons of building materials. Your truck may only carry five tons at a time, so you need Travel to and from Yanjing at least fifty or sixty times in Tianjin. "
"Before there are no recyclable rockets, all your trucks are disposable, which means that you need to spend a pickup truck for every five tons of building materials you transport. This cost is extremely high, even higher than There are many and many houses you want to build, but we can make this one-time-use truck recyclable in the future, that is, every time you travel between Tianjin and Yanjing, you only need to refuel the car Routine maintenance is enough, this cost reduction is not a little bit. "
Li Mu nodded and asked, "What then?"
Musk said: "Then it's simple, we now build a space station in space as a base for supply, and then transport a lot of fuel, even boost rockets to the space station in multiple times, turning it into a large supply station. , And then we launch our heavy spaceship. "
"You know, exploring the universe, the largest fuel consumption is the process of getting rid of the gravity of the earth from the ground to entering space. If the traditional spacecraft goes directly to Mars, most of its load is actually fuel, For example, the rover is only a few hundred kilograms, but the total weight of the launch may exceed 1,000 tons. "
"If we build a space station in space, then our heavy spaceship can save the fuel to fly to Mars and return. It only needs to store enough fuel to reach the space station, so this can increase the spaceship. Load off the ground, then refuel at the space station and head to Mars. "
"Even, we can also launch some of the equipment and living materials needed after Mars log in in advance to the space station. After the spacecraft reaches space, we can bring these equipments to Mars."
Li Mu scratched his head: "50 billion USD is probably not enough for your project, I am afraid it is almost the same as adding a zero?"
Elon · Musk said: "If you simply look at the investment, you really need a huge amount of capital, but the project itself can still make money."
Li Mu asks: "Make money from rocket launches? How many launches will it take to support your project?"
Elon · Musk said: "Not only commercial launches make money, but also equipment leases and space services. If we can build a space station in space, it will not be possible for future space exploration in China, the United States, Russia, and the European Union. Need some help from us, this is money, you can understand that turning the space station into a hotel, and it is the most expensive hotel. "
"Right." Elon · Musk said again: "In fact, the most profitable business is the commercial manned spaceflight business. For example, take our spacecraft for a three-day space tour. One person is 50 million USD, is it not too much? At that time, as long as we design a manned cabin, we can earn a lot of money when we carry the manned cabin during the launch mission. "
Li Mu smiled: "Are you a space rider business?"
"Almost what it means." Elon · Musk laughed when he saw Li Mu, and hastily explained: "Chief Li, don't think this is a joke, but it's not! I tell you, there are many billionaires who are eager to go In space, their money is too much to spend, and there is no commercial service on earth that they cannot afford and cannot afford. At this time, if the commercial manned space flight is opened, they will be very impressed. Interest, you can make a lot of money by this business alone. "
Li Mu looks at Elon · Musk, seriously said: "I think you are fooling me, as for the commercial space travel business you described, I think you may not be able to land for another 15 years."
In fact, Li Mu has been reborn, and I have never heard of who Elon · Musk really sent to space.
Elon · Musk said very sincerely: "Chief Li, if I follow the current rhythm, then I really need a long time. I need to wait for Tesla to succeed and PayPal to realize. There is a lot of cash before I can use it to support SpaceX. This means that SpaceX may have been idling for more than a decade, unable to increase speed. "
Finally, Elon · Musk's ardent looks at Li Mu said seriously: "But, Chief Li, if you are willing to invest in this project, then I believe that it can be developed rapidly, and may even be achieved within the next ten years , Even if it is impossible to immigrate to Mars within ten years, at least we can already send people to Mars, and then bring them back. "
Li Mu suddenly remembered the "Mars Rescue" that I saw before, not to mention colonizing Mars. I can get the Mars base in the movie. It is estimated that hundreds of billions of USD will be smashed into it. Something to play with.
If this project can really speed things up, then maybe it will be possible to realize the SpaceX space station in a few years, or even realize a manned trip to Mars.
How important is this? It is impossible to make money on this project. The good or bad of commercial operation is nothing more than the issue of how much or how little the investor compensates.
And a private company registered in the United States to engage in space stations and space exploration will not be subsidized by the US government.
Not only that, the US government has not supported NASA so much in recent years. It is said that the budget is pitifully small, and if you want to go back to the moon, it will take at least 2022.
Instead of struggling with things on space and Mars, it ’s better to get the whole thing clear on Earth first.
However, before Li Mu refused Musk, he suddenly thought of a very serious question.
The question is, what is the purpose of earning money earned money?
There is a limit to the material life of human society. If a person ’s assets exceed billions of USD, he can basically consume it on the earth. He can buy a lot of villas, buy islands, buy private jets, Buy a private yacht or even a cruise ship, and then use hundreds of millions of USD as a trust fund. Even if you don't do any business, you can only live on your interest for a lifetime.
After you die, you can put all your inheritance in the trust fund. If you leave billions of USD for future generations, let them each get one million USD from the fund each month. Even so, one offspring The year is only 12 million USD.
The key one billion USD in the capital market, it is not a problem to achieve a 10% annual rate of return. That is to say, the annual profit is only 100 million USD, enough for nine generations to lie and win for a lifetime.
If the assets reach tens of billions of USD, it is basically impossible to run out.
As for myself, the listing of Muye Science and Technology and the listing of Taobao technology, coupled with the investment of a large number of other businesses, have continued to thrive. The future value may exceed one 20,000 billion USD, so how can it be spent?
It ’s better to take out some of the big moves that other rich people ca n’t do.
The plan to go to Mars may indeed cost a lot of money, but even so, it is at most the person who ranks second in the world ’s richest list, and closes everything to himself.
In that case, why not try some money? Quandang played ...