The world has been affected by many people who have changed our energies to it forever because of their scientific achievements that have made our lives better and easier, or have contributed to saving humanity from fatal diseases or natural hazards. All this was due to science and the achievements of scientists.
But the character that I talked about in a previous part, and I will talk about it also today, is a completely different personality from the previous influential people in this world, as it was distinguished by many things. He is one of the richest people in science, as he ranked fourth several weeks ago. He is the smart one who read thousands of books when he was young to change the world when he became older.
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In the first part of the article "Elon Musk: The Genius of Technology and Economics" Part1, I talked about Elon Musk's economic achievements, as he had a great impact on financial and banking transactions.
The second part of the article is about the scientific achievements of this genius that still fascinates us until this moment. His scientific achievements varied in several areas:
1- Space and space technology
2- Sustainability
3- Transportation
4- Artificial Intelligence
5- The Internet
is he the sponsor of science in the 21century?
I think that the only person who can love this question is the observer and follower of science, as we can reach the answer by looking at his achievements, so what are his most important achievements.
Space technology
After Musk got his share from the sale of Paypal, and his share reached $ 165 million, he thought hard about investing his money in something he always liked when he was young and he always wanted to do, which is the necessity to discover more things around space, so you know a group called Mars to explore Mars where he was aspiring Musk sent some seeds to Mars to make what is called "Mars oases" by using fertilizers on rock debris (soil), so he intended to buy a ballistic missile to transport the cargo into space, so he went to Russia to buy the missile, but he failed in this mission. From this failure, the success of Elon Musk appeared and creating his own rocket and creating SpaceX.
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- spacex
It is a company founded by Elon Musk after seeing the exploitation of the institutions for the manufacture of missiles, as they were selling them at a very high price, so he established the SpaceX company to build missiles at low prices and at a low cost, and all this is a service for science.
Elon Musk used his wealth, which he earned through his previous projects, to establish the company. He founded it for a fee of $ 100 million, and the company aimed to manufacture space ships.
Musk faced many problems, as he postponed his first flight twice before launch, and when it was fired, the missile exploded, so he tried again, where he dealt with the previous problem and the missile was fired, where he succeeded in launching, but due to the fuel vibration in the tank, it changed course and deviated and then exploded and in 2008, SpaceX succeeded in The first missile successfully launched into Earth orbit, and this was the beginning of a series of successes for SpaceX.
In 2012, it was a great success for the company, as it was able to send its first unmanned space capsule to send 1,000 supplies to the International Space Station, the first private company that was able to reach the International Space Station.
Falcon 9 flights were the most prominent station for SpaceX's success, as these flights began in 2013, when a satellite was placed to explore the planet's climate, and development continued on it until 2015.
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The year 2017 was a great turning point in space science and space technology, as SpaceX was able to return the rocket to Earth again after it went to space and was within Falcon 9 flights.
After this impressive success made by SpaceX in its trips to space, many countries and governmental organizations that are interested in this field have become dependent on SpaceX in this industry.
“You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great - and that’s what being a spacefaring civilization is all about. It’s about believing in the future and thinking that the future will be better than the past. And I can’t think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars. "
His achievements in the field of sustainability
Elon Musk made everything possible, so he invented a car that works on a battery that lasts a lot and has free shipping from the company, which is Tesla, which provided many sustainable products.
- Tesla
It is a company whose idea was floated by Martin Eberhard and Mark Tarbenning, and Elon Musk invested with them and received an executive director from 2008 to today, Its idea of manufacturing the electric car was in its infancy and contained some technical problems and because of the intelligence of Elon Musk and the investors saved the company from the risk of bankruptcy and it is now one of the largest companies in the manufacture of electric cars.
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Not only did Tesla make cars, but it also made products for batteries and solar roofs
- Solar City
It started with a partnership between Elon Musk's cousins and with his personal financing. The goal of the company was to spread the solar energy project in the United States and the world and thus became the second largest solar energy systems company.
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In 2012, Elon Musk revealed his intention to cooperate with Tesla and Solar City to develop the industry of energy-saving batteries, with greater efficiency, in addition to using solar panels in cars and storing energy.
Transport
Elon Musk was very interested in transportation, because of his interest in making Tesla cars, but he started thinking about a faster and more efficient way to transport
- Hyperloop
It is invented by Elon Musk, and it is a tunnel to move between major cities in a very fast and safer manner, as this technology works on a tube system and inside it is a special capsule for transportation and is transmitted through vacuum air, the estimated cost of the project is 6 billion dollars.
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Artificial intelligence
Because the world is heading to designing machines and robots to become smarter than humans, he thought that he should also develop the human brain and his way of thinking to make him distinct from God.
After watching so many science fiction films about augmenting human capabilities, it is finally possible
- Neuralink
It was established in partnership with Elon Musk in 2016 and aims to connect the human brain with the machine and the computer. Through this invention, it will treat many neurological diseases in addition to that, the human abilities to learn and remember in addition to saving data on the computer and vice versa will increase.
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Internet
Many countries, especially the developing countries and the third world countries, suffer from lack of Internet access to them or the weakness of the Internet company, but Elon Musk will make everyone have access to the Internet.
- Starlink
It is a project by SpaceX, and 12,000 satellites will be launched and orbit around the Earth in a low orbit. The idea began in 2015 and the launch was started after obtaining approvals from the United States in 2018, and until this moment, 715 satellites were launched, and its mission is to spread the space Internet in order to be able Everyone has access to the Internet at high speed.
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I think after all these scientific achievements that Elon Musk is still achieving, he is the true and first sponsor of science in this century, as he has greatly contributed to the development of space science, and his achievements are still evident and his influence will spread throughout the genius and rich world who spent billions on science.
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[1] "biography", (APR 4, 2018), "Elon Musk Biography" https://www.biography.com/business-figure/elon-musk
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