2025-04-02
40 分钟The Economist.
It is my honor and pleasure to introduce to you the 45th and the 47th president of the United States of America.
In his inaugural address in January,
President Donald Trump received a standing ovation after declaring that Americans would finally be making a trip to the red planet.
And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars,
launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.
In the crowd, Elon Musk,
one of the new president's advisers, drew the attention of television crews.
He grinned with his hands waving in the air, followed by a big thumbs up directly at a camera.
The president's announcement, which he repeated to Congress six weeks later,
was a vindication for Mr. Musk.
Putting Americans on Mars would lay the groundwork for his lifelong ambition of making humanity a multi-planetary species.
We don't want to be one of those lame one-planet civilizations.
The sun is expanding slowly.
It will heat the Earth up, boil the oceans,
and Earth will become like Venus, where life as we know it is impossible.
So if we do not become multi-planetary, Annihilation of all life on Earth is a certainty.
It's no coincidence that the only rocket which stands a chance of getting humans onto the Martian surface any time soon is an enormous craft being developed by Elon Musk's company,
SpaceX.
Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with a vision of decreasing the costs of getting into space.