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Thermonuclear flowering Mars
The most crazy ideas of entrepreneur Ilona Mask
The founder of the private space company SpaceX and the lively prototype of the Iron Man, Ilon Musk, proposed increasing the temperature of Mars using thermonuclear explosions - and this is not his first crazy idea. "Medusa" talks about the most amazing offers of Ilon Mask.
Before the base of SpaceX, Elon Musk was a fairly successful startup of Silicon Valley. He managed to take part in the creation of two high -profile projects - a now forgotten catalog of companies with a binding to the card and PayPal payment system, which is still extremely popular. After the sale of shares in both companies, Musk was disappointed in the IT industry, got seriously ill, cured-and decided to invest his money so as to benefit humanity. Thinking where to apply its means and knowledge, Musk came across a group of scientists who developed a hypothetical project for sending a small greenhouse to Mars, in which various plants would grow on the Martian surface. For the experiment, missiles were needed - Musk went to Russia, but the deal fell off, after which the entrepreneur decided to make missiles himself. After 15 years, SpaceX carried out about 20 commercial launches (only one unsuccessful) and the first of the private companies began to deliver cargo to the ISS. The plans include manned flights to orbit.
Musk perceives SpaceX as an intermediate part of its plan to colonize other planets, primarily Mars. No benefit, according to the entrepreneur, he does not want to extract from this; He understands that he simply does not have time to use the results of his achievements. The task of changing the world is also facing its other two companies - the manufacturer of Tesla electromybiles and a sunny battery supplier for private houses of Solarcity.
The mask has always chuckled both in the scientific community and in entrepreneurial circles; Many of his initiatives fell apart before our eyes, the companies were on the verge of bankruptcy (once Tesla was almost bought by the founders of Google and friends Mask Larry Page and Sergey Brin). Musk regularly appointed unrealistic terms for the release of a new car or rocket, and then made excuses and explained why the customers need to wait another year. Nevertheless, SpaceX still launches missiles, Tesla with not the most positive financial indicators releases the most beautiful and fast electric cars, and Elon Musk continues to talk about completely crazy projects, in each of which he believes to the end-even if he does not know how to implement them. Here are just some of them.
Circum -light forever aircraft plane
Elon Musk has long been friends with the founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin and often stops with them when it happens in Palo Alto. Favorite entertainment of IT entrepreneurs-gatherings in the secret apartments Google and talking about various inventions that they would like to do. During one of these meetings, says Mask's Biography Biography, Venter investor George Zakari, who became an eyewitness to the conversation, Musk enthusiastically talked about the idea of an electric mosquito, which could take up and land vertically. Page and Brin insisted that the plane should be able to sit down on ski slopes and in the port of Manhattan; Finally, all three stopped on the project of an airplane that would fly around the clock around the Earth, and somehow it was possible to sit on it to get to the opposite part of the planet. “I thought they were joking, but at the end of the conversation Ilona asked, is he really going to do it. And he replied: “Yes,” says Zakari.
Colony on Mars
By the end of 2015, Ilon Musk promised to present the concept of the Mars Colonial Transporter - a spacecraft that would deliver cargo to Mars. According to the mask, up to 80 thousand people will be able to live on Mars, and a ticket there will cost about 500 thousand dollars. Mars Colonial Transporter will be able to transport up to 100 tons of cargo to Mars. For its launch, rockets with reusable steps will be used. SpaceX has already experienced the technology of “capture” of the worked out step using a special platform in the ocean several times, but never successfully (other space companies, however, did not even try).
In November last year, the founder of SpaceX stated that the space flights of people to Mars will be possible by 2020. But, given his tendency to exaggeration, you can safely move this period of the years ten years ahead. “I said that I want to die on Mars. Not from a blow to the surface, ”says Musk.
Super -speed train in the pipe
In 2013, Ilon Musk announced the press about the idea of creating a Hyperloop - passenger transportation systems in special capsules through low -pressure pipes resembling a pneumatic post. Capsules are supposed to slow down and accelerate using linear electric motors. The Hyperloop project, which Musk showed the world, includes the construction of a high-speed road between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Capsules should move along it at a speed of up to 1200 kilometers per hour, and the journey along the western coast of the United States will take about half an hour at a distance of 500 kilometers.
Initially, Musk was not going to engage in an ambitious project, which was immediately criticized for impracticability and complete separation from reality. He said that SpaceX and Tesla were completely busy, but will be happy to support anyone who decides to build Hyperloop. In June 2015, SpaceX announced the beginning of the construction of the Hyperloop test site to demonstrate the realism of the project. By this time, several companies appeared at once that became interested in technology.
Submarin car
This, of course, is rather a joke than a real idea, but you will never guess with a mask. In 2013, the entrepreneur bought the Lotus Esprit car, which appeared in the film about James Bond "The Spy that fell in love with me." In the spy militant, Lotus transformed into a submarine, and Musk did not hide his disappointment, learning that the props from the film could not swim under water. Musk promised that Tesla would definitely turn Lotus Bond into an electric car and “teach” him to transform. Two years after buying plans, the mask partly came to life-at least in the form of a hidden function in Tesla Model S. If you squeeze the button T on the trash of the car and enter the code 007, you can get into the control panel of James Bond. The appearance of the electric car, unfortunately, will remain the same.
