We have been relentlessly presenting you updates
on several progress we make on Space research
for quite some time now.
So we thought why not we exclusively present
you some interesting facts about people or
companies related to this subject.
So Engineering Today will now come up with
a series of videos dedicated to some extraordinary
people who have made a big impact on the field
of Space research.
Let's start with the well known and most discussed
personality Elon Musk.
First of all, if you are here, then we must
say, does Elon Musk really need an introduction?
The way SpaceX has come up in the last few
years under his leadership and they way Tesla
and NASA got their name entangled with it,
the whole world is literally watching this
man holding their breath.
He is not just a genius but his media presence
and will power can make any business leader
in the world feel envious.
We all follow him, watch him either to admire
or to criticize, but one thing is obvious,
we can't ignore this man.
So let us discuss some sinteresting facts
about Elon Musk.
Stay tuned.
Do you know Elon Musk holds citizenship of
3 countries?
US, Canada and South Africa.
In 1971 he was born to a Canadian mother and
South African father in Pretoria.
He moved to Canada while he was 17, after
3 years he decided to move to the United States.
During his childhood his parents thought he
might be deaf.
When Musk's parents used to call him he would
look at something else rather than responding.
When his parents took him to the Doctors they
removed his adenoids, but it didn't change
anything.
Later they found Musk had a habit of daydreaming.
Once his mother Maye told biographer Ashlee
Vance, “He goes into his brain and then
you just see he is in another world.
I just leave him the way he is because I know
he is designing a new rocket or something.”
Musk learnt computer programming at the age
of 9 and built a game called Blastar, not
a surprise from a person having such a high
IQ level isn't it?
Later, he sold this game for $500 to a computer
magazine at the age of 12.
Perfect display of intellect and entrepreneurship
at such an early age.
Guess what was the theme of that computer
game - Bingo, you got it right, it was - Space,
you can still go online and kill some aliens
while playing Blastar.
Talking about IQ, as per the last aptitude
test Elon Musk took, his IQ is approximately
155.
Pretty close to Einstein I must say.
Though there was not any proper test to measure
Albert Einstein's IQ, but the speculated number
is 160 as per multiple research blogs and
data available online.
Well, well, not everything about his childhood
was so exciting, there are prices you have
to pay to be a genius and not so crowd friendly.
Musk had a horrible experience of getting
bullied.
He was beaten and thrown away to the stairs,
he was hospitalized and even after getting
released he started living with breathing
problems.
Recently he underwent a surgery to fix his
deviated septum.
On 25th of 2013, he tweeted saying -" Was
beat up pretty badly as a kid & left me w
jagged septum.
Harder to breathe as I got older, so time
to fix.
Had a minor operation, so am in bed in meds.
Probably shouldn't be tweeting."
Did you know Musk ran a night club out of
an empty frat house when he was in college?
Yeah, you heard me right.
Musk and his friend came up with this crazy
idea during their college days to pay bills
and it was a really profitable business for
them.
Musk had a teenage fantasy to own a convertible
which he fulfilled by buying an old E-Type
Jaguar.
He did it after getting the initial bonus
of $40,000 from Zip2, a software company which
was founded by him and his brother.
The more interesting fact is when he decided
to launch the company, just after getting
admission in Stanford.
He completed his major in physics and economics
at the University of Pennsylvania, then got
a chance to do a P.h.D program from Stanford
University in applied physics and material
sciences.
But Musk is Musk.
Just after two days he dropped out of the
university to co-found a startup company with
his brother called Zip2.
As usual, it turned out to be an excellent
decision as they were able to sell the company
for $307 million just after 4 years.
Do you know how much Musk took home out of
this deal?
$22 million, just at the age of 28.
But Musk was not born with a silver spoon
in his mouth, he's a self made millionaire,
once his mother did five jobs at the same
time to raise the kids.
The first car Elon Musk bought was a BMW 320i
1978 model for $1400 and he fixed it himself.
It lasted for two years but one day, when
one of his interns from Zip2 was driving it,
the wheels fell off.
Now let us get over from his teenage days
and move on.
Musk sold Zip2 in 1999 and founded X.com,
an online financial service and e-mail payment
company.
It costed him $10 million.
Later, this company was merged with Confinity
having a money-transfer service called PayPal.
In 2001 the merged company was dubbed as PayPal.
Musk was not the CEO anymore due some contradictions
with the board members regarding switching
the platform, Musk preferred Unix over Windows
and others disagreed.
He was still a board member at that time holding
11.7% of share.
In 2002, the company was taken over by eBay
and he received $165 million for his stock.
2008 was an unforgettable year for Musk.
The financial crisis hit Tesla hard and he
did his best to make sure the company is not
going broke.
At the same time he was struggling with SpaceX
as well.
He was living on loans taking help from his
wealthy friends.
He contributed $35million to Tesla and somehow
maintained his stake in the company.
Today tesla is a $34.14 billion company and
Elon Musk has a net worth of $69.4 billion.
Musk has three marriages, twice to the same
women and has been divorced three times.
He has 5 sons with his ex-wife Justine Wilson,
a Canadian author.
Among their five sons Griffin and Xavier are
twins and they were born in 2004.
Damian, Saxon and Kai are triplets who were
born in 2006.
They also had a son and his name was Nevada,
he was born in 2002.
His name was chosen after the location of
Burning Man as he was conceived during the
music and arts festival.
Unfortunately at 10 weeks of age Nevada died
with SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome.
Musk married English actress Talulah Jane
Riley-Milburn twice.
He also had a much discussed relationship
with Amber Heard and his name was recently
dragged into a high-profile lawsuit between
Heard and Johnny Depp.
Spacex CEO have been dating musician Claire
Elise Boucher, professionally known as Grimes
since 2008.
She is a Canadian musician, singer, composer,
and visual artist.
They made their first public appearance as
a couple at the annual Met Gala.
On 6th May the couple announced the birth
of their son and surprising everyone they
names the baby X Æ A-12.
Knowing Musk's sense of humor everyone thought
they might be joking but later on Grimes tweeted
to clarify the name.
As per the tweet X is an unknown variable,
Æ is Grimes's elven spelling of Ai, love
&/or Artificial intelligence.
A-12 is precursor to SR-17, the couple's favorite
aircraft + A stands for Archangel, Grime's
favorite song.
Grimes has also used The singer has used Æ
before naming a song on her latest album 4ÆM.
A controversy started when they found as per
californian law no pictographs, ideograms
and diacritical marks can be used while registering
a name.
It must consist of the 26 letters of the alphabet.
Later Grimes confirmed that they have changed
the name to X Æ A-Xii.
Elon Musk is extremely fond of comics and
robots, specially X Men.
His son Xavier was named after X Men's professor
X.
All his robots in Tesla are characters from
X Men, such as Xavier, Iceman, Wolverine,
Storm, Colossus, Vulcan, and Havoc.
Xavier's job at the gate is to place the cars
down to the floor from an electrified rail.
Iceman, Wolverine, and Beast are the heavy
lifters.
Storm and Colossus can be found at the end
of the chassis line.
Vulcan and Havoc work as a team to lift cars
back onto the rail.
Elon Musk and Larry Page share a weirdest
friendship among them.
Ashlee Vance, author of a new biography about
Elon Musk said that they have a funny relationship.
Musk doesn't have a place so he stay in Silicon
Valley, so he spends time at his friends's
place.
Sometimes he stays with Larry, but he also
thinks Larry Page's vision is evil for this
mankind.
On the other hand Larry says “He’s kind
of homeless, which I think is sort of funny.
He’ll email and say, ‘I don’t know where
to stay tonight.
Can I come over?’
I haven’t given him a key or anything yet.”
What would you say about this kind of a friendship!
Did you know that Elon Musk owns an iconic
Lotus Esprit called Wet Nellie.
It’s a car from Roger Moore starrer 1977
James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved me.
It was given such a name as this car had an
ability to get transformed to a submarine
in the movie.
Musk watched this movie in South Africa when
he was a kid and since then he had a wish
to own this car.
Though after buying the car for $1 million
he found it doesn’t get transformed to a
submarine in reality and he said in one of
his interviews - "I was disappointed to learn
that it can't actually transform.
What I'm going to do is upgrade it with a
Tesla electric powertrain and try to make
it transform for real."
After all he's Musk, Elon Musk.
Musk has launched a venture called Neuralink,
he wants to fit a chip on our brains so we
have an edge over artificial intelligence
and capable enough to fight the armageddons
in the near future.
In 2015 Musk appeared in one of the episodes
of The Simpsons.
The animated Musk launched himself in the
space in his Dragon Craft.
Musk has a dream to colonize Mars.
Yes, you heard it right.
He had a plan to send some crew to Mars this
year to do some survey so he can send a cargo
by 2024.
Let us know if you have any plans to settle
there?
Musk's company SpaceX successfully launched
a heavy rocket called Falcon heavy on 6th
February 2018, at that time it was the most
powerful rocket ever created having the ability
to lift 64 metric tons of payload.
Can you guess what he launched as the heavy
payload into the orbit?
It's a brand new Midnight Cherry Tesla Roadster.
It also carried a mannequin pilot named Starman.
11th April 2019, the second flight occured
and it launched Arabsat-6A, a 6465 KG Saudi
Satellite.
The third flight took off on 25th June 2019
launching STP2 payload, which was composed
of 25 small spacecrafts.
Not last but the least, do you find any resemblance
between Elon Musk and Tony Stark?
Before shooting for Iron Man Robert Downey
Jr. said "There’s somebody we should sit
down and talk with".
Musk let them shoot the film at SpaceX for
free and also made a cameo at the beginning
of the movie.
Since then the real life Iron Man is friends
with the reel life Iron Man.
Aren’t these really interesting my friends?
Please let us know which one you already knew
and which ones actually surprised you.
We will soon come back with our next video
with some interesting facts.
Till then stay safe, take care.
