Wealth itself has never been the end of the pursuit of the rich, and the "sea of stars" is the more ambitious dream of the rich.
Recently, SpaceX, a space exploration company owned by Tesla founder Elon Musk, broke the rocket launch record in 2021 and expressed the hope that in 2022, it will continue to work hard to achieve a weekly frequency of launch missions.
However, Musk himself did not expect that a mistake would end seven years later with the sci-fi blockbuster ending of "rocket hitting the moon".
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Wandering for 7 years The self-end of space junk
Just a few days ago, a number of foreign media, including the British "Guardian", reported that the falcon 9 rocket launched earlier was about to run out of fuel, and its wreckage would hit the moon at a speed of 2.58 kilometers per second on March 4 this year. Since the impact is expected to occur on the far side of the Moon, the exact location of the rocket's impact on the Moon remains unknown.
The rocket was launched by Musk's space exploration company SpaceX. In February 2015, florida successfully launched the 4-ton SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a climate observation satellite.
Under normal circumstances, the fuel stockpiled by the rocket should support its return to the earth's surface and be recovered after landing. But the Falcon 9 rocket exceeded the altitude limit, ran out of fuel before returning to the Earth's atmosphere, trapped in space, and fell into a boundless "drifting state".
American astronomer Bill Gray tweeted that the rocket had passed by the moon on January 5 this year, "this is the first incident I know of where space junk accidentally hit the moon." ”
On the 26th, astronomer Jonathan McDowell confirmed the news on social media: "Regarding those doubts, I think that vintage Falcon 9 rocket launched in 2015 will crash into the moon on March 4. But it's not tricky. ”
Although the impact may not be large, it is indeed a serious launch accident of SpaceX. But for Musk, a tech fanatic, no accident will stop his "Starlink Project" (the commercialization of aerospace), and his ultimate dream is much more than that.
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19 hours of continuous rotation has been repeatedly exploded "health crisis"
Musk's ultimate dream is to colonize Mars.
"To send humans to Mars and create the possibility of living on Mars, it starts with safety and low prices." Musk has said that Space X has the ability to send 1 million people to Mars by 2050, so he has proposed a goal of building 100 starships a year, the number of which can reach 1,000 in 10 years, and whenever the earth and Mars orbit are synchronized, about 100,000 people will be sent from Earth to Mars.
As Musk envisioned his dreamy vision, legendary investor Ron Baron threw a big message on CNBC's Squawk Box program: The man, hailed as the greatest innovative genius on the planet, may have a problem with his health, and said that the biggest risk to SpaceX is actually Musk's health.
According to Space X internal employees, workaholic Musk only reserves 5 minutes for each meal, the schedule is accurate to the second, the average daily working time is up to 19 hours, and the long-term "high load" state is much lower than the time required for the human body to repair its function.
In fact, in order to realize the dream of "colonizing Mars", Musk chose to use the seemingly metaphysical way of "meditation" to restore physical functions and repair the damage caused to the body by lack of sleep. Elizabeth Black, a cell biologist at the University of California in the United States, conducted a three-month meditation experiment on 239 women with similar physical conditions, and finally found that about 79% of people had a telomere length extension of more than 30%, confirming the relationship between meditation and longevity.
And Musk's mother, 72-year-old Meyer is also a full-fledged "immortal believer", it is reported that in order to fight against aging, she has constantly explored unique ways, trying to trigger the consumption boom in Beijing and the East of the "original knowledge - cause" precursor activation substance, and even Meyer is also in the autobiography "Life by Me" to warn everyone: she is not afraid of getting old. It is undeniable that after the freedom of financial power, the pursuit of "shou" has become a common thing in high society.
According to media reports, the Harvard Anti-Aging Research Center is also studying this substance earlier, and has been repeatedly confirmed by the world's top laboratories, such as the University of Washington, Mayo, Harvard data have confirmed, which affects the basic metabolism of organisms, cell renewal, and even basal - cause expression.
In Musk's ambitious space planning, the frontier activator "Yuanzhi-Cause" can fight against the fundamental-cause changes brought about by cosmic rays, and even prevent physiological aging, which is undoubtedly a strong needle to conquer the "Sea of Stars".
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PUBG Space junk and the confrontation of the universe
According to foreign media reports, Musk's "Starlink Plan" has "stuffed" 42,000 satellites into low-Earth orbit, seizing nearly 70% of orbital resources. Judging from the current achievements of Space X, Musk is getting closer to his goals and ambitions step by step. But the cost of ambition may be far beyond expectations, or even out of control.
"Rocket strikes the moon" is the end of the journey for the long-drifted wreckage of the Falcon 9 rocket, but it is only the beginning for the future tug-of-war between the universe and space junk.
Nasa estimates that there are currently about 500,000 marble-like fragments in Earth's orbit, as well as objects under more than 100 million millimeters. This means that low-Earth orbit will be occupied by dangerous space junk, and the advancement and development of space exploration will become difficult for scientists for hundreds of years to come.
Aerospace is a cause for all mankind. Musk has the freedom to explore space, but he should not have the hegemony to conquer space, and perhaps in the future he will pay the price for what he does.