For Musk, his road to immortality is not a "crossing", but a literal "crossing", which is inseparable from an important tool rocket.
There is no highway between Mars and Earth, and whether a reliable rocket can be built will determine whether the big dream of moving to Mars can be realized. To this end, Musk turned into a buyer, he ran all over the world's rocket markets, first found the European Satellite Launch Alliance, in order to impress the other party, he chartered the top floor of the hotel opposite the Louvre, and proved his strength with a lively party, but these superficial efforts did not impress the romantic French. At this time, Musk heard that Russia has an ICBM that can be used as a rocket, and he can buy one for $7 million, so he decided to buy three first.
Musk contacted the Russian manufacturer, but the negotiations went very badly, there are cultural differences, there are ideological differences, Musk's eloquence alone is not enough to resolve, he needs an intermediary who can mediate the conflict. Eventually, after being introduced by a friend, Musk decided to ask a guy named Cantrell to help.
Cantrell used to be a secret staff member of the United States in Russia**, and later the United States Deputy ** mediated before he was released, and he hated this icy country because of this, so when Musk asked to meet, Cantrell's"Nerves"Attack, thinking that Musk was going to trap or kill himself, so he changed the appointment location to the crowded airport, but he didn't expect the two to hit it off after meeting, and Cantrell not only overcame it"Russophobia", and gave Musk a mixed evaluation:"A sane maniac focused on the future life of humanity. "
In 2001, Musk and Cantrell went to Moscow, accompanied by a man named Raisi, but this person was not to assist in the negotiations, but to watch whether Musk had gone crazy at all times. After several twists and turns, Musk met with the Lavoci Design Bureau, which built the Mars rover for the Russian Federal Space Agency, and a company specializing in rocket launchers. In order to show the friendliness of the locals, Musk nibbled on a hard Russian sandwich and talked to the other party, but the Russian's casualness and slow pace completely disrupted his plan.
One day, when Musk was negotiating with the Russians, the other party brought a few boxes of vodka and asked everyone to empty a bottle every two minutes. In the end, the Russians were also so drunk that they couldn't open their eyes and shouted in their mouths"For space"with"For the sake of the United States", thought that the dawn was coming, and vodka almost brought down Musk, but he still went to Russia four times without fear, but found nothing but a good drink.
In the last meeting, Musk was completely furious, he showed the Russians $21 million in cash, and the Russians finally listened patiently to Musk's launch plan, and finally arrogantly told him: $21 million can only buy one missile. In addition to this, the Russians gave Musk the nickname Little Boy.
This time, Musk was completely dead, he drank a glass of vodka and walked away with a box full of banknotes.
thought that it could be done through negotiation and game of international **, but he was defeated by vodka and prejudice, which made Musk's heart suffer 10,000 critical blows. But after the critical attack, a crazy idea suddenly popped into Musk's mind to build his own rocket.
Cantrell thought that Musk's brain was damaged by alcohol, but when Musk took out a rocket-making **, Cantrell was dumbfounded. It turned out that the cost of launching a rocket was recorded in detail on this **, and each item was accurate to the decimal point, and Musk was obviously not joking.
In fact, when Musk was negotiating with the Russians, he had been studying the space industry and the physics behind it, and for this purpose he had read extensively books on astrodynamics, rocket dynamics, etc. For Musk, the rudeness of the Russians is just a small episode, because he has turned on the nerdy mode of his childhood, like a shriveled sponge frantically soaking up the water in the pool that is everything about rockets.
People inside and outside the circle know about Musk's crazy plan to build his own rocket, and they are not shocked, but they just think that Musk is whimsical, or he may have been given ** by the same convulsive engineer. Of course, Musk also knows how difficult it is, but he still believes that he can persevere.
At the University of Pennsylvania, Musk studied physics, and now he has a perfect blend of physics knowledge and business thinking. He believes that physics is not simply a re-deduction of a theory, but a fundamentally new thinking, which is its core value. In the same way, business thinking is the traction that guides how physics is shaped.
From childhood, humans have been accustomed to passing"Imitation"to adapt to society, rather than transcending tradition through original theories, so most people have not experienced real deformation thinking. However, Musk is different, he will move forward in imitation, because he knows that imitation is a conservative strategy that hinders human progress in the long run and cannot be applied to every field. When a person is ready to enter a field that requires self-challenge, imitation can only play the role of hindrance and destruction, and the most typical representative is the vacuum tube.
Vacuum tubes are the core components of many electronic products, and if a technician uses it as a template, he cannot make a transistor, because transistors can be integrated on a large scale, and the two represent two design ideas. In the same way, Musk can't deduce the design drawings of the launch vehicle from a pile of fireworks.
Deformation means risk, and that's why the progress of space technology is as slow as a snail, because no one wants to be a forerunner, because the forerunner can die in the deformation.
If you want to enhance the strength of innovation, you need to change the perspective of understanding the world, and to change the perspective, you need to smash the ceiling of your own world in order to obtain space for deformation. The scary thing is that Musk thinks he will complete a gorgeous transformation in space technology, and he can build a rocket and make it civilian at the lowest cost.
It's a crazy idea, and almost no one thinks it's going to work, because most people's imaginations have long tied themselves to a safe world, and Musk is breaking that sense of security.