This is Tony who gives himself a haircut.
Likes to eat authentic "Beijing brand" pancake fruit.
He is also a riddler who likes traditional Chinese poetry.
American version of Time Management Master.
Engaged in scientific research during the day, and seduced Depp's "female aquaman" wife at night. (John Depp said... ）
With a few words, he can make Dogecoin soar by 12,000%, and The market value of Dogecoin once exceeded $90 billion.
90 billion US dollars is the sum of the market value of Wei Xiaoli (Weilai, Xiaopeng, Ideal), a new domestic car-making force in the same period.
People are selling cars there for a few years, and it is not as good as Mr. Ma's sentence with dog money "to the moon".
This man's name is Musk.
He is a scumbag, an Internet celebrity, or a "sour word man" who loves pancake fruit, and even has to solve the world population crisis by himself.
But no matter what, please call him Academician Ma now.
Not surprisingly, he will officially become a member of the National Academy of Engineering on October 2, 2022.
An unremarkable undergraduate student who dropped out of the first half, had not published a single professional paper in any of the core journals, and had no inventions.
But that doesn't stop him from becoming one of the most professional and highest-caliber NAE (National Academy of Engineering) fellows in the world.
Why? Just because he was the richest man in the world?
NaE gives the rationale that as SpaceX's founder, CEO and principal engineer, he made breakthroughs in the design, engineering, manufacturing and operation of reusable launch vehicles and sustainable transportation and energy systems.
Presumably, his SpaceX is innovative and saves money, which I like.
So what's so what's so good about NAE looking at SpaceX?
As a fledgling commercial space company, SpaceX has made 144 successful launches, 106 successful landings, and 83 reuse launches.
The point is this latter sentence, it is currently the only company in the world to achieve the recovery of the entire launch vehicle.
Rocket recovery can reduce the cost per launch by at least $6 million (about 10 percent).
At first glance, $6 million seems to be nothing, not just the daily revenue of "Original God" in 2020.
But Academician Ma said that the goal in 2022 is to launch 50 more times, on average once a week, saving 6 million yuan at a time, and saving $300 million that year.
And this 10% cost saving is the most conservative estimate. Musk estimates that the rocket payload cost will also save 40% of the cost, and the cost of subsequent rocket refurbishment, replacement or upgrade will be saved.
Even later, the rocket will fall back into the launch pad on its own, and then to launch, I can fly directly on the top, so that I can save a batch of labor and transportation costs.
This original $60 million one launch mission can be directly reduced to less than $30 million, saving half of the province.
Of course, in addition to saving money, NAE also has a lot of black technology for SpaceX.
For example, this orbital refueling technology is scientifically called Orbital Refilling.
It's similar to aerial refueling.
It is to let another aircraft full of fuel refueling another plane in the sky that is flying, and the two aircraft can achieve relative stationary.
Academician Ma wants to get this technology into space.
The principle of space refueling is actually not too difficult.
We compare a fuel-laden bunker tank to an oil-deficient cargo hold to a liquid mass ice cube, with the bunker tank being the first half and the cargo hold being the second half.
Grasp the Wangwang crushed ice with your hand and raise your arm, spinning around your body, and the liquid from the first half of the Wangwang crushed ice will run into the second half.
Simple Newton's laws.
But it happened in space. Docking at the first speed in the universe of 7.9 km/s, as well as fuel transmission, is a dance on the tip of a needle.
But Academician Ma said triumphantly: "Rest assured, this is the technology that SpaceX is best at."
In addition to this, SpaceX has another thing that Tony likes the most.
No matter what kind of space refueling, rocket recovery, etc., real men have to look at the fiercest things.
The Raptor engine built by SpaceX is the most powerful engine in the world today.
The last time I saw such a shocking pillar of flame was in the following movie.
The thrust of the first-generation Raptor engine is 185 tons, and the current second-generation order has reached 230 tons.
The CFM56-7B engine of a Boeing 737 has only 12 tons of ground thrust.
A second-generation Raptor engine is close to 20 Boeing 737s, and Academician Ma is going to stuff 33 second-generation Falcons into a rocket butt.
That's the thrust of 660 Boeing 737s... What kind of black technology is also a heat shield, I will not list them all.
All in all, SpaceX is NASA's Doraemon.
This is just a SpaceX black technology, not to mention that Musk has made those new things such as brain-computer interfaces, supercharger piles, super tunnels, and solar technology.
So Musk, the academician, deserves it.
In addition to Musk, Microsoft CEO Nadella, Apple's vice president of hardware engineers, director of materials engineering, and SanDisk co-founder Melodra have all been elected academicians.
But then again, this academician is not the same thing as the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering that we understand.
The National Academy of Engineering is a non-profit, non-governmental organization.
Meetings were held every three to five minutes, and this group of professionals was asked to give some guidance to the country's engineering projects, and the government did not pay this group of people, and the engineering institute did not have a particularly strict threshold system.
If you are like Musk, get a bunch of black technology companies, even if it is a junior high school graduate, as long as you have a certain industry influence, the engineering institute is recommended, you can also vote for the National Academy of Engineering.
Chinese academicians, representing the highest level of academic titles, have strict review and screening procedures, and will enjoy the national academician allowance.
You have to go to master's degree, doctorate, postdoc, associate professor, professor, and then academician...
Finally, to sum up.
Musk's academician title is more like the affirmation of the commercial value given to him by the United States, you Musk is doing a special money-making thing by means of protecting the environment, and it seems to pin hope on the future of the entire people of the earth.
But don't think that the National Academy of Engineering water, there are many top international academicians in it.
For example, Dr. Zhang Hongjiang, who was selected in the same batch as Musk. Commercially, he was once the CEO of Kingsoft and is now an independent director of Xiaopeng Motors in China.
At the academic level, he is a dual fellow of the International Computer Society (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), publishing nearly 400 academic papers and holding nearly 200 international patents.
Therefore, the old horse this wave of academicians, like Qin Shi Huang stepping on the electric door - win the hemp.
Although Lao Ma lives a bohemian life, still uses Twitter to manipulate and control the currency market, and even evaluates politics every three to five years, but in terms of what this brother has done, an academician title may not be enough to "boast".
Author: YX Editor: Surface Line & Xiao Xinxin
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