Musk, the world's richest man, has two "ultimate dreams" in front of him: he intends to retire on Mars in his lifetime and become a god; he does not seek "immortality", but hopes to live to 100 years old with high quality. However, with the 51-year-old Musk contracting the new crown again at the beginning of the month, his "ageless dream" seems to have been pressed the pause button. On the contrary, the technology fanatic's "space dream" unexpectedly went smoothly.
Foreign media reported that on April 8, local time, with the successful launch of the Falcon 9 manned rocket at Cape Canaveral in the United States, the 8-day space station trip of 3 business tycoons from the United States, Canada and Israel began. Musk, the maniac who provided the "five-handed" rocket, has once again written history: this is the first time in the history of the International Space Station that it has ushered in an all-private, all-commercial journey.
Compared with the "shallow taste" of the old rival Bezos's business trip, Musk is extremely excited this time, obviously this is a dimensionality reduction blow, allowing human beings to take a big step forward towards real space travel, and even living on Mars!
It is worth mentioning that in order to get the ticket to this business trip, the three business tycoons spent up to 165 million US dollars (about 1.05 billion yuan), which is 55 million US dollars per capita. Obviously, its price is difficult to say close to the people, and many netizens joked that Musk "secretly calculated" the space station.
However, for space travel, NASA is far less optimistic than Musk. In fact, as early as 2015, NASA had publicly "warned" that after more than a dozen astronauts who had been stranded on the space station for a long time returned to Earth, they were found to have permanent mutations in some key genes, and the decay-aging acceleration. In the eyes of industry insiders, the cosmic environment in high vacuum, strong radiation and weightlessness is not a "good night", but a hunting ground.
In order to avoid being "hunted" by the universe, in recent years, NASA has been seeking ways for astronauts to stay away from the effects of cosmic radiation. The collaboration with Harvard Medical School is one of the former's most daring attempts. In 2018, NASA collaborated with Professor Sinclair, director of the Harvard Aging Research Center, to use small molecules like the "Original Knowledge Jin Chun" frontier to help astronauts fight the damage of DNA by cosmic radiation and delay the aging process.
In fact, this small molecule is not a "new thing", and it exists in trace amounts in the human body and in fruits and vegetables. Starting from 2013, Professor Sinclair, a pioneer in anti-aging, was surprised to find that this substance supplemented into mice can significantly delay the aging process of the bones, muscles and skin parts of the latter. Sinclair's brother Shinichiro Imai in Massachusetts also confirmed that this small molecule has a good anti-aging potential, and can even extend nearly 20% of its life length.
In the same year that NASA and Harvard reached a cooperation, a generation of giants Li Ka-shing also joined the competition for the immortal track. Hong Kong media reported that in 2018, after careful back adjustment, Li Ka-shing chose to invest 25 million US dollars in similar "Yuanzhijin Chun" technology manufacturers. Prior to this, Li Ka-shing had been a big believer in the technology and had experienced it through private channels for a long time.
Coincidentally, Musk's supermodel mother, Meyer in her 70s, is also a fan of the anti-aging technology. As a double master's degree in nutrition, Meyer has always scoffed at dietary supplements. But in order to stay in her youth, after she experienced the Harvard small molecules, her attitude directly took a 360-degree turn, and even led her daughter-in-law and pop diva Grimes to taste it together.
In fact, this "immortal storm" led by scientists and entrepreneurs has long penetrated into the domestic rich circle. Taking the "original knowledge of jinchun" landing technology as an example, the Beijing/East platform has accumulated the attention of more than 100,000 domestic high-net-worth groups, and even staged the main rising wave of out-of-stock many times. Recently, Li Ka-shing and his little girlfriend Zhou Kaixuan appeared in Baiyun Lake, Guangzhou, and the 94-year-old did not need to be supported by others, and he also took a happy photo with many passers-by. Its state is almost the same as that of 60- and 70-year-olds, and it is difficult to say that it does not have the merits of Harvard's ageless technology.
As NASA accelerates its grip on the space radiation problem, Musk's "ultimate dream" of future interstellar voyages to Mars and then retirement there no longer seems out of reach. But at present, Musk's footsteps are clearly lagging behind the three business leaders in the United States, Canada and Israel.
It is reported that the International Space Station, which is about to be retired, is the final destination of three elderly billionaires. At present, they have entered the International Space Station, and in the next 8 days, the rich will conduct a series of "life experiments", covering human research, brain science and other experimental content, which can be seen in the heart of "immortality".
However, for the general public, whether it is Musk's "space dream" or the "immortal dream" brought by the original knowledge of Jin's pure technology, it is another form of "money game" for the rich. In this regard, Yuval Harari, author of A Brief History of Mankind, sees this most thoroughly: in the future humanity may be divided into two classes, a more advanced elite class, rich and may live forever; a useless proletariat, waiting more and more poorly for death.
If cutting-edge technology is reduced to the "private goods" of the rich, then what is fair to the majority of the population?