Your fearlessness comes from your ignorance. - "The Three-Body Problem"
The New Year's bell, which belongs to the city of Palo Alto, California, is about to ring, and Musk feels that his resume this year is not bright enough.
Time Magazine in the United States used a swastika to evaluate Musk's 2021 as a year of "getting rid of the shackles".
"His startup rocket company, SpaceX, has surpassed Boeing and others to have the future of American spaceflight; his car company, Tesla, is a pioneer in the electric car market, with a two-third share of the U.S. auto market; and he's dabbled in robotics, solar, cryptocurrencies, climate, and even brain computer implants."
"Musk has spent his life fighting against those who hate him, and now he's finally got what he wants."
Indeed, 2021 has not been a failure for Musk. The various labels mixed with Musk have finally added highlight suffixes such as "the world's richest man" and "Time Magazine's Person of the Year" after liars, lunatics, clowns, and paranoia.
However, Musk may have been the second controversial Time Magazine Person of the Year after Hitler was elected in 1938 for "occupying a number of countries by peaceful means", but when Hitler reappeared on the cover of the magazine in 1945, he was marked with a red cross symbolizing shame as an undisputed dictator.
Musk, whose value has doubled in just a few years, has openly opposed the "billionaire tax" supported by ordinary Americans; when the new crown virus ravaged the United States, Musk played down the virus crisis and let the Tesla factory continue to work in spite of the local "shelter in place" instructions; Musk manipulated the stock market on a Twitter account with 66 million fans.
Even when the people of the world are rejoicing and preparing for the New Year, Musk's Starlink satellite once again plunges the world into a whirlpool of public opinion brewed by him and his SpaceX.
According to public information, the Starlink satellite launched by SpaceX in the United States approached the Chinese space station twice for no reason in July and October this year.
In order to ensure the personal safety of astronauts on missions on the space station, the relevant departments immediately took "emergency risk avoidance" measures to avoid this space disaster that was close at hand, which greatly interfered with the normal operation of China's astronauts and inevitably lost the service life of the space station.
SpaceX has not given any official explanation since the incident, and even Musk, who has always loved to talk big on Twitter, has also been frustrated this time.
Musk did not show the sense of responsibility that should be the Time Magazine Person of the Year.
Musk has always been a "barbarian" in the public's impression of a "barbarian" other than a wandering skeleton.
Before the establishment of SpaceX, the U.S. aerospace industry, which was mired in the quagmire of the "space race", had long been lying on a sickbed and dying; and when Tesla laid out the car track with a pure electric body, "the last successful car company in American history" was rewritten from Chrysler, which was born in the mid-20s of the last century, to Tesla.
Musk almost single-handedly entered the two industries with extremely high input costs, extremely long development time and extremely high entry thresholds on the historical timeline of elongation.
Musk's mom, Meyer Musk, recalled in an interview with Time Magazine, "I put solar cars and rockets in front of him and told him he could only choose one, but apparently he didn't listen." ”
Musk in life also doesn't like to play any role that would make him feel burdened. Musk sold all his property, broke up with his girlfriend of three years and didn't divide any of his own property, and even Musk, who loves to fly to Mars, gave his son a name that seemed to be read only by Martians, "X A-Xii".
Objectively speaking, I have to admit Musk's whimsical and adventurous spirit as a giant of entrepreneurs, which is very similar to the helmsman who stood on the deck of the Mayflower and looked out over the wild continent of the Americas, but unfortunately, this pure land was later tortured by the smallpox virus on the boots of foreigners for centuries.
It is not just Musk who is eyeing the "big cake" of the universe this time.
Before Musk became the "world's richest man", Amazon founder Bezos was the man who firmly controlled the scepter that symbolized the top wealth, but it seems that the big man's interest in the universe will not lose to Musk.
According to reports, Bezos took his younger brother on a space trip with his brother on a new Shepard rocket on July 20 this year.
As soon as the news came out, it stirred up a thousand waves among ordinary Americans, and more than 41,000 people signed a "petition to ban Bezos from returning to Earth", giving reasons that were also very American liberal.
"Billionaires shouldn't live on Earth, it's better for them to stay in space."
One petitioner said in an interview that "entering the universe and returning to Earth is not a privilege for the wealthy alone, but a right for all Earthlings to be able to participate in decisions together." ”
Indeed, while the universe is still a resource beyond the reach of billions of ordinary people living on Earth, there is little practical binding force on these privileged people who occupy more than 80 per cent of the earth's wealth by relying on the existing few written treaties of international law such as the Outer Space Treaty, the Convention on International Responsibility, and the Moon Agreement.
These two times the SpaceX starlink satellites approached the Chinese space station for no reason, and looking at the world is not the first to open up the world.
In 2019, a satellite of the SpaceX Starlink program almost collided with the European Space Agency's "Fengshen" meteorological satellite for no reason, and the explanation given by SpaceX was "to try the automatic de-orbiting technology of the Starlink satellite"; in April this year, another Starlink satellite almost collided with the communication satellite of the British OneWeb company, and has not received an official explanation from SpaceX.
So far, the SpaceX Starlink program has launched nearly 2,000 satellites, but in Musk's vision of the Starlink program to "try to build a satellite Internet covering the whole world", at least 40,000 more satellites need to continue to launch to achieve this grand plan.
Relevant statistical agencies said that if SpaceX sends the first batch of 12,000 satellites into space, then 90% of the close contact events in space will be caused by starlink satellites; if all 42,000 starlink satellites are sent into space, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Musk is challenging the basic bottom line of astronauts around the world to operate safely.
At the same time, if all 42,000 starlink satellites are allowed to enter orbit unimpeded, then the most ideal orbital plane for the launch of the satellite will be firmly occupied by Musk's SpaceX, and this huge total number of satellites will be six times the total number of satellites in orbit in all countries in the world.
"Musk is building space hegemony." Relevant researchers at the Financial Times said.
At this point, it suddenly occurred to me that Musk has a prestigious title in addition to the world's richest man and person of the year - the real-life version of Iron Man.
In "Avengers I", the film version of Iron Man played by Robert Downey Jr. staged the ultimate personal heroism, risking no return in order to save the earth by sending a powerful nuclear warhead into the universe.
However, when the real-life version of Iron Man takes off the "Iron Armor", there is still no captain-like figure who can stop his steps in the universe of 42,000 starlink satellites.