好吧,这听起来没有特别的历史意义。但如果你知道如此高比冲的火箭足以突破地球大气层,前往火星,是不是感觉就不一样了?而碰巧火星有着大量二氧化碳(CO2)和厚厚的永冻层(H2O),它们可以被巧妙地转化为上文提到的甲烷(CH4)和液态氧(O2)。这意味着你可以在火星就地制造返回地球的燃料。这会改变地球和火星之间太空旅行时需要考虑的长期经济问题,因为你可以向火星发射载人飞船而不需要随船携带火箭燃料。
That's right. Elon Musk genuinely believes that within the next couple of decades, humans will be colonizing Mars. And thanks to his early morning aha! moment, we will even be able to make the return trip. That would certainly be a useful line in the recruiting ads, unless, like him, you're comfortable with the prospect of dying on Mars after helping build humanity's second home.
就是这样。埃隆·穆斯克坚信在接下来的二十年内,人类就可以移居火星。得益于他这次凌晨的灵光一闪,我们甚至还能返航。在招募志愿者的广告中,这一条肯定能够起到鼓动作用。除非你像他一样,愿意在帮助人类建立第二个家园后长眠于火星。
This is not your typical CEO.
他不是一个典型的首席执行官。 You'd say Elon Musk was crazy, except that he has an unnerving track record of turning his dreams into reality. His second successful Internet startup, PayPal, which was sold to eBay(EBAY, Fortune 500) in 2002 for $1.5 billion only three years after its founding, was just the warm-up. (Compaq bought his first web software company.) His next act, Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX, became the first private company to deliver cargo to the Space Station and has picked up billions of dollars of orders from NASA and others. His electric-vehicle company, Tesla Motors (TSLA), with sales up more than 12-fold for the first three quarters of 2013, is proving that cars can be green and sexy. (Oh, and earlier this year, while running those two companies, he found time to unveil a radical new intercity mass-transport concept called Hyperloop.) For all those reasons and more, Fortune has named Musk its 2013 Businessperson of the Year.
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