Author: Yang Railshan
Editor: Wong Han Seong
Chinese internet, a storm is being set off to scare Musk.
Don't believe you casually search, eat melon to see Musk joke article accounted for half of the sky.
There are also some articles, the text seems to be reasonable, but has already expressed the attitude in the language of the title.
Who is the world's richest man on the other side of the ocean? Why do many Chinese despise him so much?
It all starts with Musk's election to the National Academy of Engineering.
Last week, the National Academy of Engineering released a new list of 111 academicians and 22 foreign academicians.
Musk, right on this list of winners.
The richest man, academician, many netizens smelled an unusual taste from it.
How? Not only were capitalists not hanged on street lamps, but they were also awarded such an honor? There must be a shady scene!
Musk's academician title must have been bought!
The reason why netizens have made such speculations is not unrelated to Musk's experience.
First, Musk's academic qualifications are not enough.
Musk only had a bachelor's degree, first studied at Queen's University in Canada, and then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, where he received a double bachelor's degree in economics and physics.
Although Musk obtained the admission qualification of Stanford University's master's and doctoral degree in materials, after a few days of enrollment, Musk chose to drop out of school and start a business.
Another Bill Gates-esque story.
The story is very inspiring, but in the eyes of many people, the academician of the National Academy of Engineering must be a doctoral student.
You see, even the poor counties in China have to recruit foreign returnees, musk is an undergraduate, why should he be an academician? Just because he's the richest man?
In fact, regarding the degree of education, the relevant selection rules for academicians of the National Academy of Engineering are "no prohibition can be evaluated".
Don't say undergraduates, even elementary school students, as long as they have outstanding contributions, they do not violate the selection rules.
Compared with the academic qualifications themselves, more people question the logic behind it: What contribution can an undergraduate student in Musk make in engineering?
Let's first take a look at the reason why the National Academy of Engineering elected Musk as an academician:
"He has made breakthroughs in the design, engineering, manufacturing and operation of reusable launch vehicles, sustainable transport and energy systems."
It can be seen that at least on the surface, the reason why Musk was named a member of the National Academy of Engineering is because of his achievements in Space X.
The question is, Musk's title at Space X is CEO and chief engineer, but how much of the space technology he led or participated in designing? Throw the work to the people below, and the honor goes to their own leadership, do we still see less?
In fact, this question has been answered for many years.
Rocket engine expert Tom Muller is the founder of Space X, and in the eyes of many netizens, he is the real behind-the-scenes hero.
However, he himself responded to netizens on Twitter that the Raptor engine was developed by Musk and the propulsion team.
Since 2016, Mueller has gradually faded from the original propulsion team responsible for SpaceX.
In a 2016 interview with Y Combinator founder Sam Ultraman, Musk said:
Shortwell is responsible for everything at SpaceX except design and engineering, while Musk spends about 80 percent of his time with a team of engineers working on improving the Falcon 9 and the Dragon spacecraft and developing facilities that can colonize Mars.
Zhang Peng, founder and CEO of Geek Park, once asked him why he wanted to be the CEO of two companies, and Musk's answer was:
"I don't really want to be a CEO. What I really aspire to is an engineer who can design and implement products according to my own ideas. ”
Indeed, Musk usually does not show a little scholarly temperament.
Not only does he like to put cannons everywhere, but he has also blown Dogecoin on social platforms, and many people who have lost money hate him to the bone.
Take the matter of being rated as an academician of the National Academy of Engineering, many people always have lingering doubts about him.
Many people say, you have not published a SCI paper, why prove your scientific results, there are experimental models and data?
You know, SCI is a popular criterion for Chinese universities.
At present, universities generally use SCI to evaluate the level of discipline research, which mainly includes three aspects:
Use SCI to evaluate the academic value of a paper, SCI to evaluate the level of an academic journal, and SCI to evaluate the quality of scientific research in an academic institution or even a country.
At present, the Chinese academic community is not only satisfied with SCI, the higher the impact factor, the greater the influence of the journal, and the higher the level and value of the journal.
Therefore, whether a paper can be published in a journal with a high impact factor has become a standard for Chinese academics to compete.
If musk is really going to look at the current judging standards of the Chinese academic community, this person is far from the standard of many university professors.
Musk, a rich man who is "unstable in his career", a husband who changes his wife at every turn, a capitalist who cuts leeks in the game currency circle, if he is not known, he is still the annual cover person of Time Magazine in 2021.
His things are always making a lot of noise on the Internet, which is called the "black and white dualism" of the Chinese how to love?
In fact, in the final analysis, the academicians of a country represent the most advanced scientific research capabilities and production capabilities of this country.
At the moment when the domestic manufacturing industry in the United States is hollowed out, the emergence of people like Musk has injected a dose of tonic into the American industry.
On the surface, Musk was named a member of the National Academy of Engineering because of his achievements in Space X, but in fact, the selection of Musk as a member of the National Academy of Engineering is an act of aggregating the country's best resources.
The National College of Engineering is the highest academic body in the U.S. engineering community and one of the four major national academic institutions in the United States, alongside the National Academy of Sciences, the National College of Medicine, and the National Scientific Research Council.
Since its founding in 1964, being elected a fellow of the National Academy of Engineering has become one of the highest professional honors for engineers in the United States and around the world.
Before Musk, Jobs, Bill Gates, Bezos and other business giants had all been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which is a nationally recognized honor for American entrepreneurs and does not receive additional added value at the economic and administrative levels.
As the "highest honor and advisory academic institution" in China's engineering and technology circles, the Chinese Academy of Engineering belongs to the public institution directly under the State Council, and the government will also issue special allowances for academicians.
Some employers prescribe recruitment conditions for academicians, the salary is generally in the millions of yuan, in addition to a higher amount of performance and area of housing facilities.
The status of academicians of the two academies of China is even worse than that of american academicians, which is not only a symbol of honor, but also a scarce resource.
So, can China's academicians represent China's most advanced scientific research capabilities and production capabilities?
Theoretically, of course.
However, the difficulty of selecting academicians of our two academies presents a state of Schrödinger.
On the one hand, for many Chinese scientists, this may be a huge threshold that is out of reach.
In 2015, Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize for discovering artemisinin, a drug used to treat malaria.
Tu Youyou has no Ph.D., no SCI papers, and no visiting experience, but she won the Nobel Prize for her research results that saved millions of lives in the fight against malaria.
At present, among all the scientists in China, only Tu Youyou has Chinese nationality and won the Nobel Prize.
It is reasonable to say that such achievements can be said to be the pinnacle of perfection and unprecedented, right?
However, it is a pity that she still failed in the "academician" co-election for several consecutive years, and she has not yet become an academician.
The famous biologist Rao Yi was the first life sciences scientist to abandon everything and return to China after obtaining a tenured chair professorship in the United States. In 2011, he was kicked out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the announcement of the primary list of academicians.
Subsequently, Rao Yi announced that he would not be a candidate for academician from now on.
Among the academicians of the two academies in China, there are more than 20 in the field of traditional Chinese medicine.
However, not only Tu Youyou, one of the main contributors to the treatment of malaria by artemisinin and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, is not an academician of the two academies.
Zhang Tingdong, a major contributor to the treatment of leukemia with arsenic oxides, is also not an academician of the two academies.
On the other hand, some researchers in non-hardcore fields can be shortlisted for academicians, which makes the outside world scratch their heads.
On December 8, 2011, the Chinese Academy of Engineering announced the "List of Academicians Elected in 2011" on its official website, and the election of Xie Jianping, vice president and researcher of the Zhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute of China National Tobacco Corporation, became the most important news. He is also known as the "Tobacco Academician".
In 2021, Wang Li, chief engineer and chief quality officer of Moutai Group, was recommended by the Guizhou Provincial Association for Science and Technology to be shortlisted for the list of co-elected academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, while Chen Yumin, chairman of Shandong Gold Group Co., Ltd., became the candidate of Shandong Province.
"Baijiu Academician" and "Golden Academician" are about to appear.
Is it true that tobacco, alcohol and the gold represented by wealth, which are harmful to the human body, also belong to the frontier that pushes mankind forward?
I really don't understand.
In 2022, we seem to see two clear paths for humanity to the future:
Or, run to the universe.
Or, run to the metaverse.
The vast majority of people in the world are excited about the metaverse! Musk is one of the few crazy people who choose to run to the universe,
For the metaverse, Liu Cixin once commented:
"The metacosm will be an inner volume of human civilization ... The metaverse will eventually lead humanity to a dead end.
Assuming that human beings have realized a realistic virtual world metaverse before moving towards space civilization, then human civilization will form a closed loop, thus stagnating and eventually dying. ”
In fact, the Internet track, Musk has long been tired of playing:
At the age of 24, Musk founded Zip2, a product that combines "Dianping" and "Google Maps"; he is also the founder of the third-party payment ancestor PayPal;
Today, while other Internet companies are thinking about using NFTs to make money, Musk is burning money for his space career:
Musk's personal wealth is as high as $237 billion, luxembourg, the world's largest per capita GDP, the GDP in 2021 is only more than $60 billion, such a wealthy country has sold all the properties under his name, ALL IN Space X.
In order to expand the new market and avoid repeating the mistakes of the "Concorde" supersonic airliner, Musk has shown a surprising big picture:
Since February 2019, Musk has announced that he will open all Tesla electric vehicle patents, expanding the global new energy vehicle market and pulling it into a new track.
Don't underestimate patent disclosure, patent fees are not a small amount. For example, Qualcomm owns patents for mobile phone chips, and the revenue from patent licensing fees is billions of dollars, accounting for 20% of the company's total revenue, and the profit margin is as high as 60%...
Musk always fails, but never fears failure, and his success is accumulated in one failure after another:
Space X's Falcon 9 completed its first launch on June 4, 2010, its first recovery on December 21, 2015, and the Falcon 9's launch recovery efforts suffered seven failures in the 2015-2016 period.
Musk's starship prototype, the SN15, was successfully recovered and landed last year. However, before that, it had already exploded 4 times.
Some people have counted that Musk lost a total of 10 starship prototypes, including ground ignition explosions, hull structure experiment accidents, and previous landing explosion accidents.
His eyes, always staring at the deep and distant space:
His Space X was able to successfully recover a rocket that was in full operation from orbit, and in addition to launching the rocket, it could also make the rocket soft landing.
This achievement alone surpasses the sum of the past space science and technology of the three major powers of China, the United States and Russia.
A private enterprise has done what the three space powers can't do, and it is not too much to call it the most cattle private enterprise in history...
In fact, the title of the most cattle private enterprise in history, Musk does not care at all.
Because, when Chinese used to measuring merit and inferiority by a single standard, Musk is creating standards:
Musk was not only the first person in the world to launch a private rocket, but also reduced the cost of rocket chips by a factor of 5384!
Before Musk, the cost of the chipset for a rocket launch in the United States was about 140 million yuan; the chipset of Musk's Space X rocket only used 26,000 yuan!
Musk will also reduce the unit cost of getting into orbit as Space X's goal. He proposed to lower the payload cost target to $10 per kilogram.
Musk, an imperfect madman, always has his heart set on space and faces the storm of public opinion with a hippie smile:
"People laugh at me for being crazy, I laugh at others who can't see through it."
Musk will eventually become a new storm in the distant sea of stars.
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