Google has continued to develop rapidly, occupying more and more new areas periodically become the most expensive brand in the world and achieving great success. Last year, she held a number of purchases in the corporate market, and then went under the wing of Google, for example, Nest, Boston Dynamics or Deep Mind. In 2015, Google has continued to invest in other companies, and this time, such was the SpaceX.

Just today, Google and Fidelity invested in SpaceX worth a billion dollars. Thus, the two companies now have an interest in the amount of slightly less than 10%, and the cost SpaceX has reached a level of $ 10 billion.

We all love Elon Musk at least for the fact that he is that kind of Tony Stark from the universe Marvel, descended from the great and not-so screens, when in fact it was quite the opposite, and the image of Robert Downey Jr. was modeled precisely mask. His company SpaceX, Tesla and others are really trying to do something advanced and innovatsinnoe. Most recently, for example, we looked at the Tesla Model S and were very impressed. SpaceX, in turn, is actively trying to break into the leaders in the field of space transportation with its new transport and cargo capsule Dragon, shown last year, the rocket reusable Falcon 9R, and in the long term and does Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars through projects like the Mars One .

This raises the logical question, what exactly are interested in Google so much that they decided to invest so much in SpaceX? Really Good Corporation decided to build a Death Star, populate it with all sorts of AlphaDog’ami, ATLAS’ami and SCHAFT’ami of bins Boston Dynamics and send them to terraform Mars, when people go to finally arrive, the robots were ready to convey them in contextual advertising best, earning new quintillion Martian money?

In fact, the main reason for a somewhat more prosaic than suggested above. All the matter in the draft Elon Musk to introduce a network of satellites that provide Internet connection. To begin with their plans to build about 700 units, the cost of each of which will be mnee $ 1 million, and the mass of about 100 kg. This is significantly less than the cheapest and small modern communication satellites.

Co-founder of the idea of such a network of satellites is Greg Wheeler, founder of O3b Networks, which originally planned to implement it in partnership with Google, but last year decided to go with the idea to someone who has more experience in the space industry. So Elon Musk was for this wonderful candidate. And after Google decided to take an active part in the life of the financial SpaceX, we must understand that the trio joins forces.

In the case of the successful promotion of the project to the masses Google, SpaceX and others plan to provide quick and easy access to web Vsemironoy that part of the population that can not yet boast such privileges. For Google, the benefit is obvious. Online satellites can be a logical continuation and development of the project Project Loon, pursuing the same goals – to give all online, so they can go back and view contextual advertising, bringing profit to Google.

Elon Musk, it seems, has a slightly more far-sighted and ambitious plans (if at all possible to have a more ambitious and far-sighted plans than Google c Larry Page talking about the “island without laws, on which you can carry out any boldest experiments”). Land for SpaceX may well be just a testing ground, which will be tested technology connectedness of Mars, which he Musk recently began to actively speak.

In general, this collaboration can promise the most benefits to all participants as well as potentially to you and me. It is clear that it will introduce not tomorrow or the day after, but hardly anyone is necessary to explain all the advantages of such an approach. But for all the positive things it makes me a little uncomfortable with the fact that giants like SpaceX and Google combine actively seek monopoly and hardly with them someone something can do if things go well in the future. Elon Musk has repeatedly stated that the fears of artificial intelligence, and that it must be very careful, and I, in turn, about the same extent begin to fear that’s just such collaborations high-tech companies.

But let’s still hope for the best, good, we still give reasons.

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About a month ago it was reported that Elon Musk, Tesla Motors and owner of SpaceX, is preparing to submit a draft of a new type of transport. Compared with the concept on which information was available 24gadget at the time, Hyperloop become much more elaborated the idea and published in the “alpha” design provides not only information about the operating principles, but also spelled out the various nuances, including all sorts of problems . Skeptics are actively discussing the various aspects of the transport system and also the general plan of fabulousness can not find the arguments against its creation, almost every aspect of Hyperloop conceived by its creator.

The idea of ​​the route length of 900 km Elon Musk was a protest against the construction of a prolonged and bloated to $ 60 billion high-speed railway budget of California High-Speed ​​Rail. Musk promised to prepare an alternative draft for a tenth of that amount. Hyperloop will be a straight steel pipe mounted on special supports, inside which move the capsule with a powerful turbine pumping rarefied air of the capsule, thereby lifting the bottom of the pipe in order to avoid friction. Acceleration and maintaining speed capsule will provide induction motors are located approximately every 100 km. The system will accelerate to a speed of 1,200 km / h, while the passengers will not experience high congestion. The entire system will produce energy through solar panels located on the outer surface transport pipes and is completely self-contained, spending a total of 21 MW of the estimated 57 MW.

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Director General of notorious companies SpaceX and Tesla Motors Elon Musk (Elon Musk) admitted that the system of transportation Hyperloop, which in theory allows you to travel to almost the speed of sound is “extremely risky model.”

Mr. Musk during a conference call with investors Tesla Motors said:

I think I shot myself in the foot when he first mentioned the Hyperloop. In short, I’m torn.

In other words, all the time spent on SpaceX Elon and Tesla Motors, and on Hyperloop his remains. The project will still be presented on August 12, but create Hyperloop Musk is not going, he wants to give a chance to others to build a next-generation transport system. However, according to the mask, if not wanting to be found, in the near future, it will try to translate this idea into reality.

At the moment of Hyperloop not know a lot of facts, but there is a lot of guesswork. The above scheme, which was provided to the user by the name of John Hardy, Elon Musk said, “as a best guess at the moment.”

It describes a tube through which move the capsule. Thus capsules “pushed” by the accelerated air flow pipe, and both ends of the tube are special compartments for acceleration and deceleration capsules. It is unknown what exactly filled tube, as Musk assured that Hyperloop no vacuum.

As planned, the average speed capsules Hyperloop is about 1000 km / h, and the capsules during the acceleration, acceleration or deceleration is not more than 1G. Sensations are the same as in the ride vehicle.

Elon Musk had previously claimed that the cost of the system between two hypothetical points is about 10 percent of the cost of high-speed railway, and 25 percent of the cost of the highway. From this we can conclude that Hyperloop has no relation to the magnetic levitation train.

How does Elon wants to make the capsule to float in the air without resistance is not known. Perhaps this will be used acoustic levitation.

The reality is that today there is simply no technology that could translate this idea into a commercial product. Chances are that Elon Musk will present a draft Hyperloop, which will rely on unproven technology, rather than a detailed construction plan. Given the fact that Elon considers the project “highly speculative”, it can be assumed that even he does not know a reasonable time production Hyperloop.

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