Chapter 320 Award Ceremony Scene
“It’s so beautiful.”
In SpaceX’s Interstellar Factory in southern Texas, Musk looked up at this small but exquisite robot .
Musk would not spend his own money on such a project if it were not to demonstrate Amerikan’s industrial strength in front of the world.
Now that the White House is footing the bill and has allocated a budget of US$500 million, there is only one requirement, and that is to demonstrate Amerikan’s technical strength as much as possible.
A coffee cup costing US$1,280 and a toilet seat costing US$10,000 can be found in Amerikan's military bill. To them, US$500 million is a piece of water.
If Boeing were to take on this project, it would be able to increase your budget infinitely.
It started with 500 million US dollars, and ended with 5 billion US dollars. In the end, it was just a robot made by a Turkish company to deal with the problem.
How money is spent is what Washington bureaucrats are not good at, but this is especially good.
However, the person in charge of this project is Musk. Musk will also increase the budget, but after increasing the budget, he will eventually be able to get things done.
It's still better than Boeing.
From this perspective, it can be seen that Musk’s strength is such that he can actually engage in manufacturing in Amerikan at the moment. SpaceX still only needs Amerikans as employees and does not even accept immigrants.
Boeing’s chaos has led to some voices on Wall Street saying that Musk should take over Boeing.
For Wall Street and the White House, it does not matter who is in charge of Boeing, as long as it is not TG, the most important thing is that it can bring them benefits.
“Of course, we work with NASA, Oak Ridge Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, and they license a lot of technology that has not been publicly demonstrated before.
The purpose is to demonstrate Ameliken’s technical strength to the global public at this award ceremony.
I am very confident about it. "Jesse Anderson, SpaceX's executive responsible for manufacturing and technology research and development, is very confident in the Transformers created by all the efforts of the United States.
"If its response is good enough, we can even make it a Tesla is a cyberpunk-like model sold to people who can afford to pay $10 million without even raising an eyebrow. "Anderson continued.
"Then you have to convince Lockheed first. You must know that the core power and stability system comes from Lockheed.
Of course I know it's perfect, but it's Wright we have to deal with. "Musk obviously doesn't feel as good about himself as Anderson.
The repeated defeats in the past have made it clear to Musk that Wright has never been an easy opponent to deal with.
Anderson nodded: "Of course, if the opponent is not Wright but Xiaomi, I don't think we need to cooperate with other organizations.
We will cooperate, and these cooperative institutions will obediently The cutting-edge technology of the laboratory is given to us, isn’t it because the opponent is Wright?”
Anderson has full confidence in Amerikan.
“If this time had three years, then I would indeed be worried about losing to Wright, but this time there is only three months. Wright is a human being, not a god.
Except for Wright's participation, Tokyo University's technology is all behind us, so it's not worth worrying about.
If they want to catch up with Amerikan, one Wright is not enough, they need hundreds of Wrights. "Anderson told his reasons.
The reasons are very good.
Time is the biggest enemy.
Even if you have the entire process of technology from research and development to implementation, you can Recreating a new environment also takes time.
Musk touched his face and thought that one Wright has already made the big guys in the White House worried. If one hundred Wrights were spent, the entire Washington congressmen would probably not be able to sleep well.
“I hope you are right.”
Everyone’s ideas are very different, they are all trying to get as close to the scenes in the Transformers movie as possible.
Because the car itself is deformed, it is difficult to do tricks. The Transformers in the movie can change their size and mass at will, which is simply impossible to do in the real world.
So in their opinion, it is to see whose transformation is smoother. The overall car and the transformed Autobot are more in line with the aesthetics of future technology.
It also includes stability and smoothness during walking.
In Andre's view, they are already the pinnacle of current Blue Star technology.
“Of course we are right.”
In order to reserve enough time for Musk and Chen Yuanguang, the Nobel Prize Awarding Committee specially postponed the award ceremony to the last day of 2026 .
"Yuan Guang, we have decided that HBM technology can be made public. It is up to you to announce this decision at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.
It is also a gift you give to the world. "The new person in charge of docking said.
It was extremely cold in Stockholm in December.
As a well-known Nordic city, the annual Nobel Prize Award Ceremony is the city's most important event. Glory.
Except for some special reasons in 2020, the 21st Nobel Prize will soon resume the tradition of offline awarding.
Even because of the Nobel Peace Prize. The awarding standards have been criticized by the outside world, but it cannot change the status of the Nobel Prize in science in people's hearts
Before the award ceremony, there is usually a week-long Nobel Prize Week. During this week, the winners will attend the press conference, give speeches, talk about the results of their work, and participate in some special seminars.
They have ample time to show themselves in front of the public.
This is the pinnacle of glory for most scholars.
Chen Yuanguang did not get such an opportunity.
On the contrary, Musk, who came to Stockholm to rehearse a week in advance, got a lot of opportunities to appear.
Many European media are happy to focus their cameras on him.
After all, Musk is also one of the sources of traffic. Especially after he became the chairman of the Efficiency Committee, he has appeared in the global media every now and then for his extreme remarks.
Coupled with the good personal relationship between him and Chen Yuanguang, many media want to give him an exclusive interview.
Finally Sky TV got this opportunity.
"Elon, I'm glad to have the opportunity to interview you." The old white man looked very enthusiastic.
In public view, Musk's power is greater than that of Rupert Murdoch, the boss behind Sky TV.
"At the same time, you are welcome to come to Stockholm. I originally thought you would be worried about the European Parliament suing you and would not dare to come."
In 24 years, Musk commented on the incident in England.
Musk looked confused: "Europe? Didn't I mock England?
I remember that the Minister of Justice of England criticized me at the time."
The host reminded: "In addition to Heidi, the then European Commission Internal Market Commissioner Breton also warned you."
Musk laughed and said: "Where did he come from?"
Obviously not taking Brayton seriously.
"Sorry, I never remember such a small role.
Wait until he becomes the President of the European Commission and then come and say this to me."
"Elon, the chat session is over, let's officially enter today's interview. What do you think of Wright winning this year's Nobel Prize in Physics?" the host interrupted. Brayton has really been promoted. The other party is now in the European market. Vice Chairman of the Committee.
Although this position cannot affect Musk, it is not difficult to affect Sky TV.
The host hopes to stop Musk’s humiliation by changing the topic.
“This is the honor of the Nobel Prize. If it weren’t for the damn political manipulation, Wright should have won the Nobel Prize in Physics two years ago. It’s hard to imagine that in the past ten years, human society has What invention has changed our society more profoundly than room-temperature superconductivity?
The last time a smartphone changed human society was more than ten years ago.
Without room temperature superconductivity, it’s really hard for me to imagine how boring the world would be. ”
Musk has always admired Chen Yuanguang because there is no conflict of interest between the two parties. Guangjia Aerospace and SpaceX both make launch vehicles, but the market conflict between the two is very small.
It is impossible for SpaceX to obtain Dong A large market, Guangjia Aerospace is also unlikely to obtain the Western market
In the absence of direct conflicts of interest, Musk has never concealed this appreciation.
"You speak highly of him." The host said in surprise.
“This is because the West has always stigmatized Dongdae scientists.
We know very well that room-temperature superconductivity comes entirely from Wright’s invention, and Korean scientists may have only made 10% of it. Contribution, but in many mainstream media reports, the contribution of Korean scientists is stated as 90%, and Wright only did a small amount of work.
This statement is too far from the truth. "Musk. Natural way.
The host asked: "So you think it is right not to share the Nobel Prize with Korean scientists this time?"
After the Nobel Prize was announced, Korea received the most intense response.
Both the Korean media and Korean people believe that since the reason for the award is room temperature superconductivity, why are there no Korean scientists who first proposed LK99.
Korea people came out to protest, believing that the Nobel Prize has no credibility.
Musk said of course: "Of course it is correct. Korean scientists discovered that there is a moon in the sky, and Wright summarized the moon's trajectory and movement rules."
"This Did you accept Wright's invitation when you came to Stockholm?" the host asked.
Musk said: "Yes, didn't the Nobel Prize Committee say this?
He had a proposal, which I thought was very interesting, so I agreed."
Moderator Question: "So what is the proposal?"
Musk said: "You will know when the award ceremony is held, which is only a few days away."
The annual Nobel Prize award ceremony The number of participants is generally around 1,500.
This year, both Chen Yuanguang and Musk are participating.
There are more people than in previous years, and the number of official invitations sent out by the Nobel Prize has exceeded 2,000.
MPs, scholars, and businessmen from European countries large and small all hope to get an invitation letter.
Different from previous years when it was held in the concert hall of the Stockholm Municipal Building, this time it was held outside the city.
The entire venue outside the city was fenced off, and the security checks were much stricter than in previous years. It was a battle array that Swedish celebrities who had participated in the award ceremony many times had never seen before.
“It looks cool, but it feels cramped inside,” Musk said after entering the Tesla X.
They named this car X, which symbolizes mystery.
Musk also likes the letter X so much that he changed the name of Twitter to X.
Anderson followed the maintenance team to the scene, and they rehearsed three times this week.
At the same time, we also observed the Transformers of the other two companies.
Andre became more confident after reading it.
Wright's Autobots with the logos of Space and Light Armor Aerospace are only a little better than them in terms of stability while traveling.
There is no way to compare with X in other places.
“Elon, the main purpose of luxury cars is to be uncomfortable. The more uncomfortable the car, the more luxurious it is.
This appearance has determined that X will kill Lamborghini before Space and Ferrari
Get ready for Tesla's moment. "Andre said.
Chen Yuanguang didn't feel uncomfortable at all, because he controlled the robot remotely.
The robot in the Autobot, this is equivalent to double nesting.
“It’s so cold. If I didn’t want to see Musk and Wright, I wouldn’t have braved the cold wind and ran here. "said a socialite wearing a coat without a logo and her female companion.
There are many people who have similar ideas.
After it was determined that both Chen Yuanguang and Musk would attend the award ceremony and participate remotely through robots, the rights to the Nobel Prize live broadcast were sold to media in various countries around the world at a high price.
Including the sponsors, everything was sold.
Official partners are Google and ByteDance.
Both are looking for a sense of presence.
Xiaomi originally wanted to show its face. During the pre-rehearsal process, the gap with the other two companies was clearly visible to the naked eye.
Lei Jun finally chose to give up and just came to watch the awards ceremony as an ordinary spectator.
Anyway, Xiaomi is also one of the sponsors of this award ceremony.
The gap itself is not the most critical thing. The most critical thing that made Lei Jun choose to give up was that compared with X and Light Armor, Xiaomi’s Su toy feel was too strong.
There is just a technology gap, which is not important. Xiaomi itself is not good at technology.
But the strong sense of toys is too fatal. The car brand leaves such an image on consumers, which will directly affect sales.
Xiaomi’s decision is decisive.
When Musk appeared at the venue in a black streamlined sports car, the audience knew that something big was coming.
When they were rehearsing before, someone flew a drone and vaguely photographed them.
“Wow.”
Noisy sounds echoed in the venue.
“This logo seems to be that of Tesla.”
“This looks very similar to Tesla Y. What’s new in this?”
Wait until Tesla Y transforms from an electric car into a car, smoothly walks up the steps, then walks to the auditorium and changes back to a car.
The entire transformation process was extremely smooth. Some viewers took out their mobile phones to take pictures, but they did not capture the previous transformation process.
After Musk walked out of X, he walked to the prearranged position expressionlessly.
He knew that many mobile phones were pointed at him at this time, and all he needed to do was show off.
This is nothing more than Iron Man falling from the sky to be interviewed, Musk thought.
In fact, no one took pictures of him, because X turned into a car and moved away from the audience.
The audience at the scene were all taking pictures of the Autobots. Who wants to take a picture of Musk’s face, which has appeared countless times in the media.
“Misstep.”
(End of this chapter)