A few days ago, Musk announced that he will start producing "Optimus Prime" robots next year. A stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the discussion about Musk was once again in the air. Someone with a heart can comb through the layout of his business empire, and maybe you will also have a question. What is this proud "Iron Man" thinking in his heart?
preface
Psychologically speaking, Musk is a confident and paranoid person. The sense of superiority brought about by extraordinary intelligence is vividly demonstrated in the events that fool the public again and again. It is this character that causes him to disdain to hide his wild hopes, and to revel in the small pleasure of "prejudging the prejudgments of others". Therefore, from his various business actions, it is the best choice to follow the vine to find clues.
clue
1. Money
Just a few days ago, musk successfully reached the top of the world fortune list with a value of 1.4 trillion, far behind the second place Bezos. Musk's "banknote ability" power source has 2 points.
Tesla – a super cash machine with no upper limit. The 2021 financial report shows that its annual revenue is 342.9 billion yuan, an increase of 71% year-on-year; and the net profit is 35.1 billion yuan. The same is a new energy vehicle company, Weilai lost 4.02 billion, Xiaopeng lost 4.86 billion, and the ideal loss was 320 million. Looking at the world, there is not a single one who can fight! Under the blessing of this momentum of self-sacrifice, Tesla's market value soared all the way to 6.75 trillion. As the founder of Tesla, Musk has benefited amazingly from the company's stock. As of December 2021, Musk has sold more than 11.03 million shares, cashing out nearly 76.4 billion.
Virtual currency – a bloody pair of leek scissors. In February last year, Musk suddenly announced that only 0.7 bi X coins (regulatory issues, can not mention the name please forgive the reader), a Tesla drove home, and the user bought a car than X coin, will not be converted into legal tender. This news rose sharply compared with the price of X coins, and few people know that Musk had secretly bought 9.5 billion yuan of X coins before releasing this news. 3 Nemask quietly sold the coins in his hands in a high profile. On May 12, he suddenly announced that Tesla no longer supports X-coin payments, for the following reasons: it is not environmentally friendly, a reason why ghosts do not believe. In just 40 minutes, the price of the coin plunged to 19113 yuan, a decline of 6%. A large wave of leeks standing guard at a high level stood on the roof.
Wave after wave, wave after wave! Just on the 11th, Musk announced the day before he stopped collecting X coins. He did a small campaign on social media. Let everyone vote on whether Tesla should support the use of DogEcoin (another virtual currency). In just half an hour, the value of Dog X coins has multiplied several times. The reason is simple: he has a large amount of Dog X coins in his hands, and he is also the honorary CEO of the Dog X community. It can be described as a far-reaching layout. This time, I don't know how many people lost their bottoms.
Today, he is still playing with his "scissors" and harvesting greedy souls. It is conservatively estimated that he has made more than 10 billion profits from this series of "flower jobs"
So the question is, what is this person asking for so much money for? Private yacht? A feast? Beautiful tender model? Maybe not. His ex-girlfriend complained that once there was a hole in their mattress and the girlfriend wanted to get a new one. Straight man Musk actually said: "It's too wasteful to buy, it will be left." If you can't stand it, then bring one from home. ”。 This leek has been cut to the head of his own woman, what a little genius. The poor girl accompanied the world's richest man in a 34-square-meter low-rent house, peanut butter as bread, watching old TELEVISION. Mountain treasures and seafood, yacht luxury cars, famous watches and bags he does not love, the only thing he loves is work.
He, figure what?
2. Transportation
Space X — A realistic version of Noah's Ark. The Long March 5 has a low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of 25 tons and a geosynchronous orbit of 14 tons. Space X's Heavy Falcon has a low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of 63.8 tons and a geosynchronous orbit capacity of 26.7 tons! Falcon Heavy can be recycled for repeated use, saving half the cost, equivalent to one rocket when used for two. We are the world's premier space power, and the strength of one country is not as strong as a private company. The strength of the Space X is breathtaking. If you put it a few years ago, how many people still see it as a joke.
People with a little common sense know that the first hero of the United States to complete the feat of landing on the moon is the giant - the Saturn V rocket. High-thrust rockets are a key point in human exploration of deep space. Space X's main business is commercial space travel and transportation satellites, consumables, astronauts and other near-space missions. For now the Falcon Heavy is sufficient. Space X has not stopped, and it is planning to carry out research on giant recyclable rockets. Huge investment without too obvious business intentions, why? Musk is a businessman, doing this
He, figure what?
3. Energy
Solar energy – the outpost of the energy of the future. Compared with the distant future of nuclear fusion energy, the pragmatic Musk prefers solar energy. Just a few days ago, he opened his mouth again: "Humanity has wasted almost all of its solar energy, which is supposed to be our main energy source for the future." And he also gave a formula to support his point. Although a group of experts have ridiculed this "layman", saying that the formula he gave is a very idealized book energy, without taking into account the dust, weather, angle and so on.
Compared with the invincible experts, Musk's solar layout has already begun. In 2016, Musk launched a solar product that can be installed on the roof of a home, claiming that after installation, a small family will greatly reduce the electricity bill. Although the flowers bloomed very well, it was a pity that they did not bear any good fruit in the end. In the following years, the development of the project has been declining. And it has been proven that the whole project is whimsical, neither economical nor environmentally friendly. But strangely enough, even during Tesla's most difficult period, Musk did not give up research and investment in solar energy. It is really puzzling that this "stupid" business insight can actually happen to the genius Musk.
He, figure what?
4. The New Creator
Robots, brain-computer interfaces, consciousness downloads— redefining humans. As mentioned at the beginning of the article, Musk announced the production of robot "Optimus Prime" next year. He clearly had high expectations for the iron knot, saying that it would lead humanity into an era of true abundance, which would be more legendary than Tesla. At present, it is still a mystery to look at the various performance parameters of Optimus Prime. But the "Tesla humanoid robot", which was launched last August, is a good reference. Equipped with a DOJO D1 supercomputer chip and Tesla's exclusive connector, the robot transmits information at a very high rate with a computing power of up to 9PFLOPs. Paired with advanced AI technology and a visual neural network nervous system. Many of the key aspects of this system are developed by Tesla itself. Optimus Prime as an upgraded version, its parameters will only be stronger. If it is successfully landed, Optimus Prime's athletic ability is extremely close to that of a real person.
Brain-computer interface technology Musk has also laid out far-reaching layouts and is already a pioneer. Tesla's Neuralink is focusing on research and development in this area. Clinical trials have been perfectly completed in pigs and monkeys, and are about to enter the human phase. According to the company's vision: after implanting the chip, humans can not only control the outside device directly through the mind, but also the communication between humans can also be completed through the mind. If combined with the networking function, the entire human race may be reduced to a whole, like the gods in StarCraft. For example, if you want to call your mother, then as soon as you think about it, your information will immediately reach the mind of your mother for hundreds of kilometers. If we want to, we can turn on the TV in our homes, drive a vehicle, pull open the curtains, or even manipulate a behemoth. It's an exciting picture. At that moment, human beings may really become the masters of matter.
Consciousness download technology is also a technology that Musk has been obsessed with and repeatedly mentioned. Musk has more than once said that people can live longer or even live forever, even though he says he has no intention of doing so. Anyone who knows a little bit of scientific knowledge knows that our flesh cannot carry such a grand wish. So what to do? Can this fragile body be left undesirable? Consciousness download technology is exactly what it does, and it has appeared in many science fiction movies. If the essence of man is the spirit, then as long as the spirit can be retained, the body or whatever is not important. So the so-called eternal life actually exists in other ways. For example, a program.
But it is not easy to realize this wish. Before downloading brain consciousness, you must scan the neurons of the existing brain. This requires about a hundred million times more detail, and at the same time can not kill the person being scanned. Although Musk has been adding investments in this area, there is no dawn at present. Is the immortality of the form of the program Musk's vision?
In summary, it is not difficult to see that Musk has spared no effort in the convenience of physical transformation, and many of them are most likely unable to recover their costs. It can be seen that he is obsessed with mechanized and fragile flesh, and the enhanced human is Musk's ideal human?
He, figure what?
5. Take control of the publicity
A rumor is spread a hundred times, then some people believe it to be true; if it is spread ten thousand times, then it becomes the truth. Musk knows this and has a good time. Musk often uses the influence of his Twitter to repeatedly "smash" the price of virtual coins, making a lot of money. Deeply aware of the importance of the media, he directly bought 73.49 million shares of Twitter on April 5, accounting for 9.2% of the company's common stock, becoming the largest shareholder. In the early years, when Musk used the media to speculate, he was threatened to be banned, which may also be one of the reasons for the acquisition.
In fact, from the perspective of businessmen, Musk is not a good time to buy now, since February last year, Twitter has been looking down, and the stock price has fallen continuously. But why did the money-hungry Musk do this?
He, figure what?
Answer
There seems to be no connection between the pieces of Musk's business map. But people with hearts have faintly perceived a secret "line". At the end of this line is Musk's irrepressible wild heart, a permanent city of Mars. In fact, he has mentioned this "grand ambition" a long time ago, but most people just regard him as a monkey. In fact, "god people" and "stupid people" are only this point.
To achieve the plan, it takes money, a lot of money. Tesla, virtual currency to cut leeks, the ultimate goal is to accumulate more wealth in the shortest possible time. Fortunately, Musk has a talent for this. The biggest problem of ordinary people is that the clouds are light in front of him. In just 10 years, he has jumped from a small rich man to the world's richest man with 1.4 trillion yuan. You must know that the GDP of thailand in 21 years is only 3.2 trillion, and the real wealth is invincible.
With the money, the following list of things can be carried out.
To reach Mars 320 million kilometers away, not having a powerful "transport brigade" is undoubtedly a pipe dream. That's the mission of Space X. The heavy-duty falcon with high thrust and recyclable features have turned interstellar travel from a pipe dream into a stated goal. Space X is also advancing research and development, and the unit price of space transportation will fall in the future. The day the graben changes direction will not be too far away.
After arriving on Mars, how to solve the problem of living energy? Fossil energy is obviously impossible, and incomplete nuclear energy technology also has the trouble of repeatedly transporting consumables. Fortunately, the martian atmosphere is thin, its density is less than one percent of the Earth's atmosphere, and the energy that can reach the ground is also more intense. Although Mars often has storms and is farther from the Sun than Earth, solar energy may be the only option in comparison. The instability of the sun makes energy storage technology particularly important. Therefore, the battery is also the focus of Tesla's development direction, and it also fits the current wave of electric vehicles. Kill two birds with one stone.
After the external troubles of transportation and energy are solved, the next step is to solve the problem of people.
Mars is 200 million kilometers from Earth. From the experience of multiple probes in the past, it takes an average of more than 200 days to reach the Red Planet. More than 200 days, dark interstellar travel. It is not something that ordinary people can bear. Flesh-and-blood astronauts face the dilemma of water, food, physical function and psychology. At the same time, the climate of Mars is not habitable, there is no liquid water, no oxygen, and the night temperature is more than 100 degrees below zero. The root cause of these problems is that the human body is too fragile and needs a lot of support conditions to survive. So what if it was replaced by a body of steel? Temperature, water, air, food, physical fitness decline these problems will be solved. Humans who go to Mars may only need to carry a brain, and the body is all transformed into a machine. The brain controls the shell through brain-computer interfaces. We don't even need the brain, we just need to download our consciousness into a program that controls the entire body. Humans can completely transform into a robot in the true sense of the word.
Being recognized is also a tricky thing. Fortunately, people are emotional animals and do not think rationally all the time. Musk's penetration of the media will certainly deepen. One day in the future, countless powerful information platforms will repeatedly broadcast the bright future of the Mars project. It will surely bring a group of people who believe. They will not hesitate to give up their flesh and become a pair of steel to go to the so-called "kingdom of God."
If everything goes as Musk wishes, then this will be the scene on Mars. In a valley, a magnificent modern city is constantly moving, with traffic and pedestrians weaving the streets. It's just that we can no longer see restaurants everywhere, and instead of them are cold wireless charging piles.
By that day, if "Iron Man" Musk is still built. How would people think of this "God"?
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