Chapter 1785

In Elon Musk's words, technology is mostly stacked, and between technology and technology, it's like making arrangement and combination. The more technology you have, the more patterns you can play.

Elon Musk has been pursuing the next dimension, such as new energy vehicles, autonomous driving, recoverable rockets, and even sending humans to Mars.

Taking advantage of this visit to Yanjing to discuss the following relocation of Tesla to China and the cooperation between Tesla and other automobile brands of Li Mu, Elon Musk, after having dinner with Li Mu, held Li Mu for a long time in his hotel room.

He first introduced the importance of technology stacking to Li Mu, and the topic is still about cars.

He said to Li Mu, "President Li, in fact, technology is really interesting. You see, if we install adaptive cruise for a car, we can develop a pre collision system on the basis of adaptive cruise radar hardware."

Li Mu said, "you don't let me go home in the evening, just to popularize automobile technology for me?"

"You see, I'm going to start with automotive technology," Musk said with a smile

Li Mu said, "I know what you mean. Make a light bulb today, a battery tomorrow, and then it will be a flashlight. In two days, make a motor, and get more battery strings together. It's an electric car. That's what you mean, isn't it?"

Musk nodded: "almost..."

Li Mu smiled and said, "I may not be able to work out how the battery stores electricity, but I know how to use the battery. If you pull me to say what I want to say, you can just say it."

Musk found himself being seen through by Li Mu, and smiled awkwardly, saying, "Mr. Li, in fact, I want to talk to you about space exploration."

"Space exploration?" Li Mu asked curiously, "where are you going?"

"Explore other stars, like Mars," Musk said

Li Mu said, "isn't NASA doing it? We also sent a Mars rover. What else are you going to explore? "

"NASA just sent Rovers to Mars, but not people to Mars," Musk said seriously. "My goal is to send people to Mars first, and then try to immigrate to Mars."

Li Mu was stunned. I heard about your plan to immigrate to Mars in my last life, but I didn't see you send people to Mars until I was reborn

So Li Mu asked him, "how are you going to do this?"

"Of course, relying on SpaceX, our current research direction is mainly reusable launch vehicles, and our rocket's future launch capacity will continue to increase, keeping pace with NASA's Saturn V, or even surpassing Saturn V," Musk said

"Once we have a heavy recoverable rocket, our cost per kilogram is likely to be reduced to one tenth or even less of the current mainstream launch cost."

"In this way, we have the basis for going to Mars."

"For example, we can build a spaceship that can land on Mars, and then use our recyclable launch vehicles to continuously launch space station components into space, and build a large space station in space orbit. This process is like driving a truck, successively transporting building materials that can build a house from Tianjin port to Yanjing, and building a house You may need hundreds of tons of building materials, your truck may only be able to carry five tons at a time, so you need to commute at least fifty or sixty times between Tianjin and Yanjing. "

"Before there is no recyclable rocket, all your trucks are disposable. That is to say, every five tons of building materials you transport, you need to spend a pickup truck. This cost is extremely high, even higher than the house you are going to build many, many, many. But in the future, we can turn this kind of disposable truck into recyclable, that is to say, every time you go back and forth Jinshi and Yanjing only need to refuel the car and carry out daily maintenance of the car. This cost reduction is not a little bit. "

Li Mu nodded and asked, "and then?"

"Then it's simple," Musk said. "We now build a space station in space as a base for replenishment, and then transport a large amount of fuel, even booster rockets, to the space station several times, turning it into a large replenishment station, and then we launch our heavy-duty Taikong spacecraft."

"You know, to explore the universe, the biggest fuel consumption is the process of getting rid of the earth's gravity from the ground to the space. If the traditional spacecraft goes directly to Mars, most of its loads are actually fuel, such as the Mars rover, which is only a few hundred kilograms in total, but the total launching weight may exceed 1000 tons."

"If we build a space station in space, our heavy-duty spacecraft will not need to think about storing enough fuel to fly to Mars and then return, just enough fuel to reach the space station, so it can increase the load of the spacecraft off the ground, and then go to the space station to refuel and go to Mars."

"We can even send some of the equipment and living materials that need to be used after Mars landing to the space station in advance. After the spacecraft arrives in space, we can take these equipment and go to Mars together."Li Mu scratched his head and said, "if 50 billion dollars is not enough for your project, I'm afraid it's almost the same to add zero?"

"If you look at investment alone, you really need a lot of money, but the project itself can make money," Elon Musk said

Li Mu asked, "do you make money by rocket launching? How many launches does that take to support your project? "

Elon Musk said: "it's not just commercial launch, but also equipment leasing and space service. If we can build a space station in space, we need our help for space exploration in China, the United States, Russia and the European Union. It's also money. You can understand that turning the space station into a hotel is the most important thing Your hotel. "

"By the way." Elon Musk added: "in fact, the most profitable business is the commercial manned space business. For example, a three-day space tour in our spaceship costs 50 million dollars for one person, isn't it too much? At that time, we only need to design a manned module and carry it with us when carrying out the launch mission. We can make a lot of money. "

Li Mu smiled: "are you a space ride business?"

"Almost that." When Elon Musk saw Li Mu laughing, he quickly explained: "Mr. Li, don't think it's a joke, but it's not! I tell you that there are many billionaires who are eager to go to space. Their money is too much to spend. There is no commercial service on earth that they can't afford and enjoy. At this time, if commercial manned space flight is opened, they will be very interested in it. At that time, they can make a lot of money by this business alone. "

Li Mu looked at Elon Musk and said seriously, "I think you are fooling me. As for the business of commercial space travel described by you, I don't think you will be able to land in another 15 years."

In fact, Li Mu didn't hear about who Elon Musk really sent to space until he was reborn.

"President Li, if I follow the current pace, I really need a long time. I need to wait for Tesla to succeed, PayPal to cash in and have a lot of cash before I can use it to support SpaceX, which means that SpaceX may be idling for more than ten years and can't get speed up."

After that, Elon Musk looked at Li Mu eagerly and said seriously, "but President Li, if you are willing to invest in this project, I believe that it can develop rapidly, and it may even be realized in the next ten years. Even if it is impossible to immigrate to Mars within ten years, at least we can send people to Mars, and then bring them back."

Li Mu suddenly thought of the movie "Mars rescue" that he had seen before, let alone colonizing Mars. He was able to build up the Mars base in the movie, and it was estimated that hundreds of billions of dollars would be smashed into it, which is not something that ordinary people can afford.

If this project can really speed up, maybe in a few years, it will be able to realize the SpaceX space station, or even the manned mission to Mars.

But what's the point? It's impossible to make money in this project. The good or bad commercial operation is nothing more than the problem of investors paying more or less.

Moreover, a private enterprise registered in the United States will not be subsidized by the U.S. government for space station and space exploration.

Not only that, the U.S. government is not so supportive of NASA these years. It is said that the budget is pitiful.

Instead of struggling with space and Mars, it's better to understand this first.

However, before Li Mu began to decline musk, he suddenly thought of a very serious problem.

The question is, what is the purpose of making money?

There is a limit to the material life of human society. If a person's assets exceed several billion dollars, he can basically spend freely on the earth. He can buy a large number of villas, islands, private planes, yachts and even cruises all over the country, and then make a trust fund of several hundred million dollars. Even if he doesn't do any business, he can only eat interest It's been a lifetime.

When you die, you can put all your legacies into a trust fund. If you leave a billion dollars for future generations, let each of them take one million dollars from the fund every month. Even so, one year for future generations is only 12 million dollars.

In the capital market, it's not a big problem to achieve a 10% yield every year. That is to say, the annual profit alone is 100 million dollars, enough for nine future generations to lie and win for a lifetime.

If the assets reach tens of billions of dollars, it is basically impossible to spend them out.

As for myself, with the listing of Muye technology and Taobao technology, as well as a large number of other businesses invested, the future value may exceed US $1200000000. How can I spend all that money?

It's better to do some of the big moves that other rich people can't do.

It may cost a lot of money to go to Mars, but even so, it's at best to make the second richest man in the world close to himself.In that case, why don't you burn some money and try it? Quan Dang plays