Li Mu knows very little about military affairs, unlike some boys who like military affairs, who can understand the main warplanes, warships, tanks, and even individual weapons of all countries in the world, Li Mu's understanding of military and military industrial development is all passive; only when the TV report on the Jian-10 fighter did he know that there was such a thing as Jian-10; the news said that the United States sent the F22 to the Korean Peninsula, and he learned that there is a kind of aircraft called the F22.

Therefore, when Elon Musk talks about drones, Li Mu's first thought is not a predator, but DJI.

As soon as he thought of DJI, Li Mu remembered that he had spent a lot of money to buy DJI Phantom 4, and it hadn't been fresh for two weeks since he bought it, just because the bomber could no longer be found.

The process of frying the machine is very much in line with Li Mu's temperament as a science and engineering boy.

Science and engineering boys are quick to get started with this high-tech gadget, and those who studied science and engineering will always have a kind of "unconvinced" about this kind of thing When the aircraft flies a certain distance away and the power continues to decline, DJI's system can determine the point where the aircraft will return safely, that is, DJI believes that under the current distance and power, the aircraft has reached the decisive point of safe return, and if it does not return, it is likely to blow up the plane halfway because of insufficient power.

Li Mu didn't dare to pretend to be with the system at first, but after playing a few times and thinking that he was proficient, he thought that this thing was nothing more than Erer, and he began to feel that he knew the limits of this drone better than this system, so when he decided to challenge the system, the plane ran out of power on the way back and fell into the river.

Thinking of that drone, Li Mu still feels a pity.

Elon Musk saw that Li Mu seemed to be absent-minded and didn't listen to himself at all, and couldn't help but say with some disappointment: "Boss, if you're not interested in this aspect, then let's talk about something else." ”

Li Mu came back to his senses from the memories of the bomber, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't, I'm quite interested, I was thinking about how to play this thing just now, why don't you give me a detailed introduction?"

Elon Musk was overjoyed, leaned forward, sat closer to Li Mu, and said seriously: "In this regard, I think so, in our Internet industry, technology is not a barrier in most cases, but the product is, everyone uses the same environment and the same language to develop it, some people can make a complete set of operating systems, and some people can make a small plug-in and it is all bugs; you can make a super product like YY, but Microsoft can only make a mess of MSN." ”

"However, in the field of aerospace, the important thing is not only the product, but also the related core technology, as well as the technology chain, such as the launch vehicle, the value is not a certain type of launch vehicle, but the technology chain behind it, multi-stage rocket technology, solid and liquid rocket propulsion technology, flight control technology, and even first-stage rocket recovery technology, once these technology chains are done, the future will be promising in many fields. ”

Li Mu didn't know much about what he heard, he didn't know anything about Space-X, so he could only humbly ask: "Is the scope of such technology for civilian use?"

Elon Musk thought for a while and said: "If someone else asks me, I must say that it is very big, but if you ask me, boss, I dare not talk nonsense with you, I can only say that the scope and space of space technology transfer to civilian use are still uncertain, but the market space of commercial aerospace itself still has great potential." ”

Li Mu nodded and said, "Tell me more." ”

Elon Musk said seriously: "Whether it is NASA, China's space department, or Europe's space agencies, although their technologies and products are different, they all have exactly the same thing in common. ”

"What is it?"

"Spend government money!"

Elon Musk said eloquently: "These government agencies research and development of aerospace technology, the least concerned is the cost, NASA in the field of aerospace technology accumulation in the world's first, but their technology is the Cold War period of the United States government with hundreds of billions of dollars smashed out, China's launch vehicles in recent years have a strong momentum of development, but behind it is also inseparable from the full support of the government, with the support of the government, the launch vehicles developed by these institutions have a common problem, that is, his cost performance is too low!"

Speaking of which, Elon Musk came to his senses and said with a spit flying: " Boss, you see, for example, the U.S. government wants to build a set of military satellite positioning system, and hand over the launch tasks of more than a dozen satellites to NASA, for the military, they don't care about the launch cost of hundreds of millions of dollars more in the structure, the Chinese government must be the same, but in the future, the financiers behind commercial satellites are enterprises rather than countries, if the cost of rocket launch is too high, the development of the entire commercial satellite will be greatly affected, but NASA is a big man who does not study how to reduce costs, so the market for commercial rocket launches is stagnant because of the high costWhat would happen if a private company were to go all out to reduce the cost of launching commercial satellites?"

Li Mu suddenly realized.

Elon Musk turned out to be such a market in aerospace.

What he said does make sense, the government's large investment in the aerospace project, the pursuit of high performance rather than cost performance, so the development of the entire aerospace field, as if a deformed official market, if you take the car as an analogy, it is as if every country has a state-owned automobile manufacturer, they are desperately developing the fastest car, the largest car, the strongest science and technology car, so the car they build is either as fast as lightning, or superpower, Or maybe the technology is extremely powerful, but the only drawback is that it is expensive to death, and ordinary people can't even afford to burn their mother's oil, let alone buy it back.

However, it is not only in every country that has a demand for cars, but also many individuals and groups of individuals who have a desire for cars, and at this time, if there is a company that focuses on creating the most cost-effective cars, it will be able to occupy the largest initiative in this market.

If a telecommunications company wants to put 10 satellites into a fixed orbit, it may need $3 billion to launch them from the United States, and $2 billion to launch them from China, but if a company can do it with $1 billion and still leave a profit of $200 million for itself, there is no doubt that in the future, in the commercial satellite market, its development space will become very large.

Thinking of this, Li Mu smacked his lips, looked at Elon Musk and said: "It sounds a little interesting, but the initial investment in this kind of industry is too large, and you always have technical reserves, right? It is impossible to develop from scratch, so where do your technical reserves come from?"

"NASA!" Elon Musk laughed: "You can think of NASA as a treasure trove that has been mostly abandoned, it has a lot of idle talent and technology, as long as we have enough start-up capital, I can find a lot of people from NASA who are proficient in a certain technology and can quickly transform a certain technology into their own use, and start development directly from 70% or 80% completion, the start will be very fast, and our research and development direction is different from these institutions, which can avoid risks to the greatest extent." ”

After speaking, Elon Musk explained: "Take the car as an analogy, NASA is studying the expensive and top F1, Europe and Japan are studying V12, dual-supercharged, and supercars with more than 1,000 horsepower, and Huaxia is studying V8, supercharging, and sports cars with more than 600 horsepower but not so expensive. If we don't build a supercar or a sports car, we will build a four-cylinder 2.0 economic model, and build this model well, and we will be the biggest occupant in this level of market at that time. ”

"Imagine what it would be like to build a Toyota Prius with tens of millions of dollars when there are only tens of millions of dollars in F1, a million-dollar Ferrari and hundreds of thousands of dollars in Mercedes-Benz on the market......"

If it weren't for his identity, Li Muzhen wanted to applaud Elon Musk while sending him a word of shut-in, no wonder this guy is known as the Iron Man of Silicon Valley, it seems that he is engaged in an unbelievable industry, and the prospects are not optimistic at all, but in fact, he has already planned the future development space very clearly, Space-X may not be able to catch up with NASA in his lifetime, the Chinese Long March series, and the Russian Space Agency, but as long as he can do it more cost-effective than them, it is enough.

When the market is full of Ferrari cars, cars can only be the toys of the top rich, after all, it is a very small number of people in society who can afford Ferrari, but once the Prius is a leather resistant and fuel-efficient hybrid model is launched, it will be too attractive to ordinary people, and consumers who can afford a Prius are at least 10,000 times more than consumers who can afford a Ferrari, which is Elon Musk's ambition in aerospace.

Moreover, Li Mu himself is from the Internet technology, he knows that the development of Internet technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, and the position of satellites in the future Internet development will become more and more important. Apple seems to have its own satellite launch plan, not to know more than ten years later is the era of satellite Internet, by that time, not only Internet products need their own satellites, hardware development also needs its own satellites, it is likely that in the future only under its own product system, there will be dozens of satellite launch needs, so it seems that the world's commercial satellite launch market prospects are indeed very broad.

After straightening out these, Li Mu suddenly felt particularly interested in Elon Musk's aerospace career, and he said to Elon Musk: "Elon, you have convinced me, when you want to officially start, you can come to me at any time, and I am ready to play with you for 100 million US dollars." ”

"That's great!" Elon Musk said seriously: "If that's the case, I'll take a sum of money out of PayPal next year, and let's invest in aerospace together!"