Random Talk on World Series: "Cosmic Colonization" —— A Journey to Mars Space

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The content is published by People's Publishing House, which is a 20-volume series of Talking about the World.

Excerpted from the 20-volume series of Talking about the World published in 2020.

Dusty red sand

After all, I stayed.

My footprints

launch

I'm coming.

Falcon 9, a full-thrust rocket of American private company Space Exploration Technology Company, launched a communication satellite from vandenberg air force base.

Since primitive times, human beings have had infinite daydreams about outer space. It is undoubtedly very attractive to fly out of the earth to travel in space and experience a different external world, which is also the dream of many people. The visual display of physical concepts such as wormhole, black hole and five-dimensional space in the film Interstellar is dazzling. The ever-changing space scenery in the sci-fi scene in the film deeply stimulates the audience's senses, which is undoubtedly another visual feast. Humans have been in space for decades. How do ordinary people enjoy interstellar space travel? In 200 1 year, the world's first ordinary tourist went into space, making the mysterious outer space and our human life more intimate today. Suddenly, "space travel" has changed from a seemingly unreachable dream to a reality, and the space so far away from us is within reach.

The first "space taxi" was successfully tested.

Space exploration technology company is an American space transportation company, which was established in June 2002. After just a few years of development, on September 28th, 2008, after three failed launches, Space Exploration Technology Company finally sent the Falcon 1 launch vehicle into the sky, which is also the first private enterprise in the world to successfully launch the launch vehicle. In 20 12 and 10, Space Exploration Technology Co., Ltd. cooperated with NASA to transport goods to the International Space Station with the "Dragon" spacecraft, which was the first space industry boosted by private space in the world. Company founder Elon? The original intention of elon musk (197 1-) was to bring a revolution to the space field and eventually immigrate to Mars. However, Musk's idea is almost fanatical to many people. In 20 15, Musk once again boldly stated that the company announced that it would dominate the solar system in 2 100.

Elon musk (1971) was born in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, on June 28th. He has dual Canadian and American citizenship and is an entrepreneur, engineer and philanthropist. He is currently CEO and CTO of Space Exploration Technology Company, CEO and product architect of Tesla Company, and chairman of the board of SolarCity Company.

Ambitious Mars Colonization Plan

2065438+ Beijing time at 3 am on September 28, 2006, the founder of Space Exploration Technology Company, Elon? At the 67th International Astronautical Congress, Musk delivered a keynote speech entitled "Turning Humans into Multi-planet Species". Musk said that Space Exploration Technology will launch the "Mars Transportation System" for human landing on Mars. Although Musk's rhetoric seems unrealistic to some people, Musk shows the starting point of this move. He believes that there are only two ways before human beings: one is to die of old age on the earth and succumb to extinction; The other is to leave the cradle and colonize other planets, and many similarities between Mars and the Earth are undoubtedly the best choice.

Of course, Musk's Mars colonization plan did not stop at verbal propaganda, and he was still leading the space exploration technology company to put the plan into practice step by step. In the past only 15 years, space exploration technology company has jumped from a little-known private company to a leading private enterprise in the development of global space technology. The R&D plan of Space Exploration Technology Company also includes the establishment of a launch site on Mars, which will be launched to Earth by spacecraft, so as to realize the reuse of rockets and spacecraft and accelerate the construction of towns on Mars. According to the plan of Space Exploration Technology Company, it takes 80- 150 days for the spacecraft to be launched from Earth to Mars, during which people can enjoy all kinds of entertainment in the spacecraft. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In order to make the colonization of Mars a reality, Space Exploration Technology Company decided to cooperate with NASA to launch a Mars landing program every two years from 20 18.

From June, 5438 to February, 2008, the European Space Agency announced that four "Mars astronauts" were selected from 5680 candidates, who may take a spaceship to start a trip to Mars in the future.

Small topic: space planting

Space planting is space breeding, also known as space mutation breeding, which is a new breeding technology that sends crop seeds or mutagenic materials into space through recoverable satellites or high-altitude balloons, mutates the seeds by using special environment in space, and then returns to the ground to cultivate new crop varieties. In recent years, with the development of space industry, we have been trying to plant species in space.

Subtitle: Spacecraft

Spacecraft is a kind of spacecraft that transports astronauts and goods into space and returns safely. Spacecraft can be divided into two types: disposable and reusable. Spacecraft are sent into specific satellite orbits or planets by launch vehicles to carry out various scientific experiments. In addition to the basic systems and equipment of general satellites, spacecraft also has life support system, reentry system for returning to Earth and recovery landing system.

Talking about the World is a national publishing fund project, which has an editorial board composed of famous professors and researchers in world history and a creative team mainly composed of professors and doctors in world history. Talking about the World consists of 20 volumes, each with about 250,000 words and 450 beautiful pictures, covering the world history from prehistory to 20 18 years. Introduce all aspects of world history in detail, show the tortuous development track of world history in a panoramic view, and reproduce historical scenes with rich and exquisite pictures.

brief Introduction of the content

Global Times (forthcoming) is the 20th volume of Talking about the World. Today's world is an era of globalization and informationization. The political organization, economic exchanges, cultural patterns and social life of human beings are being swept by the information frenzy in an irreversible way, and globalization is permeating every corner of the world. Today's world is an era in which crisis and hope coexist. Violent social changes, the integration of pluralism and the development of globalization seem to unite mankind as never before, and the gap in space and the bad feelings in the heart are being eliminated. There has never been such mutual understanding between races and nations as it is today, and the dream of world harmony seems close at hand. Of course, under this great hope, the crisis is also quietly eroding human civilization. Environmental pollution, nuclear crisis and extremism. Either way, it seems to have the potential to destroy all good things.

Brief introduction of editor-in-chief

Yan Yuqiang, Master of English History, History Department of Nanjing University, 1989. After graduation, I worked as an editor in People's Publishing House. 1995 co-founded Beijing dajiangliu culture communication co., ltd. with the predecessors in the publishing industry as the editor-in-chief. 20 15 till now, independent book planning. Representative curators and editors include Western Philosophy Gallery (7 volumes, Guizhou People's Publishing House) and Chinese and foreign civilizations at the same time (6 volumes, shortlisted for the 1 1 Shanghai Book Award and won the first literary exchange? Peng Xinchao Excellent Book Publishing Fund (Shanghai Jinxiu Articles Publishing House): Reproduction of World History (100, Tantan Publishing House of Taiwan Province Province), Reproduction of World Geography (100, Tantan Publishing House of Taiwan Province Province) and Reproduction of China Geography (100, Tantan Publishing House of Taiwan Province Province). Works: Reform Movement of 1898 (Taiwan Province Shakespeare Publishing House), May 4th Movement (Taiwan Province Shakespeare Publishing House), Personnel at Sea (Lujiang Publishing House), Qingtian People in the Netherlands (China Overseas Chinese Publishing House), Anhui Human Geography and Anhui Urban Geography (Taiwan Province Shakespeare Publishing House), etc. Translation: Oxford English History (co-translated, Commercial Press) and Autobiography of Reagan (co-translated, Oriental Press).

Brief introduction of the author

Shao, Ph.D. in World History of Nanjing University, is a professor at the School of History, Culture and Tourism of Jiangsu Normal University. His works include "The Opening of a New Route" and "Discovery at the End of the World-European Sailors in the Great Navigation Age".

Chu Dong Qing, world history major of Nanjing University, associate professor and postdoctoral fellow of Huazhong Normal University. He has published more than ten papers in domestic high-level journals such as World History, Theoretical Research on Historiography and Shilin.

Jin Kuankuan, Ph.D., World History, Nanjing University, lecturer, Zhejiang Normal University. The main papers are: On the Formation of Zulu National Identity in South Africa, The Development Plan of Colonial Agriculture and the Rise of Rural Rebellion in Africa-Focusing on British Southeast Africa, etc.

Fu Yidong, a doctoral student majoring in world history jointly trained by Nanjing University and King's College London, is a lecturer at Nantong University. The main papers are "On the Rise of Modern British Factory System: Focusing on Lombard Weaving Factory" and "On the Development of Modern British Pharmaceutical Industry".

Wang Ying, a Ph.D. student majoring in world history at Nanjing University, has published Christina, The maverick Queen Christina and The Fusion of Conservatism and Radicalism.

Ding Meili, a graduate student of Guangxi University for Nationalities.