hollywood melon man

Chapter 645: Mars Governor
Those who are good to you are called good people. Those who are not good to you are called bad people.

If it involves the country, it is generally called something like treason.

There is no doubt that the actions that Gilbert Jr. did in private were equivalent to being a traitor to the United States. But to the other side, he was definitely a good person, and even suspected to be a bit of a fool.

After this school year, the children will go to China to study, and Gilbert Jr. will frequently visit the other side of the strait for exchanges under the pretext of business.

Of course, smart people know what Gilbert Jr. is doing and will put pressure on the other side.

But exerting such pressure will not be effective. There will be pressure whether it happens or not, so it doesn't matter.

After Christmas comes New Year.

Little Gilbert attended the annual meetings of the fruit companies in succession and inspected the enviable assets of the banana company, the watermelon company, etc.

Gilbert Jr. also went to investigate the development of Nvidia's gaming graphics cards. This company that sells gaming graphics cards is not currently attracting much attention, but it will have great potential in the future by hyping up AI computing power.

Huang is still the CEO of Nvidia, but Fruit Group has become Nvidia's largest shareholder through various funds.

Gilbert also talked to Jeff Bezos about his ideas for online shopping. Transforming an online bookstore into an online shopping mall is Jeff Bezos' goal in building Amazon.

The concept of smart phones gradually became clear within Apple, and according to Jobs' plan, the next generation of Apple phones would be launched in 2009.

The next generation of Apple mobile phone will be Jobs’ ideal smartphone and will also be Apple’s masterpiece.

At the same time, the medical center jointly established by Jobs and Gilbert Jr. opened its fifth one in North America amid the continuous suppression of medical capital.

At the same time, medical centers were opened in cities such as Tokyo, London, and Paris.

Medical capitalists have tried every possible means, including smearing the industry through the media, lobbying Washington for restrictions, and even poaching talent, but with little success.

This medical center was not originally intended for the poor, but was built to make money from the wealthy. After several years of development, many wealthy people in the world have become regular customers of the medical center, and many are lifelong members.

As for the reason, needless to say, it is naturally because of its good effect.

If medical capitalists can destroy medical centers with lightning speed and preserve all medical technologies, the wealthy will not react.

But the reality is that it has been a few years and the medical center is still doing well.

In order to save their own lives, the wealthy will become the protectors of the medical center. Starting from this medical center, a network of connections all over the world begins to spread.

Perhaps this is also the reason why Wall Street capital, medical capital, and those old-established financial groups have joined forces to kill Little Gilbert.

Everyone knows that once little Gilbert completes his plan, no one can do anything to him.

To put it bluntly, who can guarantee that they will not get sick? Even if they will not get sick, don’t they want to live longer? In this decadent upper class society, status, money and power all make people intoxicated and they will not give up easily.

As long as they can still enjoy themselves, no one wants to die, so the same is true for the capitalists who fought against Little Gilbert. If they can't kill Little Gilbert, they will come to ask Little Gilbert for help.

Living a good life and enjoying life, and then pursuing higher status, more wealth and power, is the pursuit of all those in power.

Sometimes, Little Gilbert would think, no wonder the protagonists of old urban novels all had superb medical skills. It turns out that the authors at that time already understood the principle that life is money.

Later, Gilbert Jr. talked with Musk again. Musk's Tesla car manufacturing business continued to develop, but the electric car products were still immature and could not reassure consumers.

Another company that little Gilbert is concerned about is Space Exploration Technologies Corporation. Since the loud bang of the Columbia space shuttle, the discussion about the safety risks of the space shuttle has never stopped.

NASA's original idea was to use a space shuttle instead of a spacecraft. After all, the space shuttle can be reused and can save launch costs.

But later, NASA found that the space shuttle not only had safety risks, but also failed to save money as expected. The cost of each launch was very high, and the maintenance cost was also high. In view of this, NASA will gradually retire all space shuttles last year, announcing the end of the era of space shuttles.

Of course, the deeper reason is that because there is no competitor, Washington believes that there is no need to invest large-scale in space exploration, and the funds allocated to NASA are also decreasing year by year.

As for the fledgling CNSA, although it has achieved manned space flight, to be honest, Washington does not think CNSA is competitive.

Of course, if Washington had anticipated the subsequent series of events, it would probably regret it. But at this moment, cutting NASA's funding is a very reasonable choice.

As funding was reduced, NASA began to lay off employees, and a large number of professional personnel became unemployed.

But for SpaceX, this was an opportunity. After consulting with Gilbert Jr., a major shareholder, Musk recruited these professionals who were laid off by NASA.

These unemployed people were about to leave the space exploration industry, but when they suddenly heard that a private space exploration company wanted to hire them, they felt very surprised and happy.

In order to support their families, most people accepted the invitation from Space Exploration Technologies Corporation.

Gilbert Jr. chats with Musk at the SpaceX offices.

"There's no doubt that the reusable route is not wrong," Gilbert said to Musk, pointing to a model of the space shuttle Discovery.

But I think NASA is going in the wrong direction and should not be focusing on expensive space shuttles but on rockets.”

Musk agreed: "You have the same idea as me. I plan to make a reusable rocket, but without your financial support, it will be difficult to achieve."

Gilbert Jr. smiled and said, “Now we have the funds and the people, we can roll up our sleeves and do it.

You tell the rocket experts not to be afraid of blowing up the rockets, because we will figure out how to make it happen as we go along. In short, we have a lot of money and can start experiments.

At worst, we can still watch the fireworks!"

If Ivanka heard this, she would definitely scold Gilbert Jr. as a spendthrift. As a housekeeper, she was very tight with money.

But for little Gilbert, there is a very good saying: Money can't buy me happiness.

To put it bluntly, SpaceX is Gilbert's toy, but this toy is more expensive and out of reach for most people.

Musk said with great fantasy: "Little Gilbert, do you think we will land on Mars one day?"

"I think so?" Little Gilbert said with a smile: "Landing on Mars is not a problem, the problem is how to survive there.

Once we plant plants there, Mars will be ours.”

"Governor of Mars?"

"Yeah, Elon, I'll make you the Chief Administrative Officer."

Musk was delighted: "I would be happy to accept this appointment, Your Excellency the Governor."

Of course, this is just a joke. In fact, based on the current technological development, it is basically impossible for humans to colonize Mars.

But the wonderful thing about the world is that it is constantly changing. Once a revolutionary technology emerges, it will push human science and technology forward as a whole.

If you take good care of yourself, living to be 9100 will definitely not be a problem.

Perhaps in his lifetime, little Gilbert will see humans land on Mars?
(End of this chapter)