Space Adventure —— Melody on Mars Road

The first time I heard this song was in the American TV series Friends. Chandler, one of the protagonists, was found by a good friend and sang this song happily.

The second time was in the movie "Dream Home", where the man jumped on the helicopter and desperately wanted to change the status quo (because the photographer who decided the fate of the magazine had to be found, and the photographer appeared on the boat last time, and the helicopter sent the maintenance parts to the boat), and then this song was played.

The third time, I accidentally saw a friend share this song with spaceX. I suddenly became interested, so I searched. This search is not important, and I really got to know Musk and David Bob.

It turned out that on February 7, 20 18, Musk's company spaceX launched a heavy falcon rocket at the Kennedy Space Center. The rocket is also equipped with a Tesla red roadster sports car (a pure electric car produced by another company of Musk), and the direction is Mars. This launch can be said to be a carnival for science fiction fans, because there are many wonderful details.

(Note: spaceX is a commercial company, which is committed to recycling rocket launches to greatly reduce the cost of space launch and accelerate people's entry into the space age. )

For example, "Don't panic" on the car center screen comes from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and "Don't panic" appears on the cover of the guide. Actually, you can add it. What else? Happiness means enjoying your trip happily.

In addition, the circuit board of Tesla sports car is engraved with "made by human beings on earth", and no specific country or company is mentioned. Only human civilization is shining. It is amazing that a commercial company has such feelings.

In addition, the astronaut dummy model in the car is named Starman, named after the song of David Bob. David Bowie's "space geek" tells the story that when the astronaut Colonel Tom left the warehouse in space, the device broke down and floated in space forever. After watching Daydreaming for Homesickness, the single has been circulating for a long time. )

It is worth noting that there is a set of Asimov's trilogy "Base" on the bus. It seems that the span of tens of thousands of years of the galactic empire has taken a small step in this launch.

(Note: The base series written by science fiction master Asimov, starting from psychohistory founded by hari seldon, predicted the future of the Galactic Empire. It has spread out a magnificent picture scroll of tens of thousands of years of human beings, which is magnificent and exquisite. At that time, I couldn't calm down for a long time after reading it in one breath. ).

There is another detail that excites me as a science fiction fan. The rocket was launched from the historic launch pad of Apollo era at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which reminds me of Verne's work From Earth to the Moon in 1865. In the novel, he not only sent the lunar rover into space with a cannon, but even arranged the launch site in Florida, USA, which was the launch site of the "Apollo Moon Landing Program" in the 1960s and 1970s, just a short distance from the Apollo landing site.

Science fiction writers need scientific skills and bold imagination. Verne's bold vision in the19th century became a reality in the 20th century. Whether Tesla will fly to Mars in 2 1 century will open a new chapter in human exploration of Mars, let us wait and see.