马斯克谈太阳能赌注与创业

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with a 和一位

friend who will remain nameless. 不愿透露姓名的朋友。

Just between us. 就我们俩知道。

I made that bet, I think, two 我下那个赌注，我想，是两

or three years ago. 三年前。

So in roughly 18 years, 所以大约在18年后，

I think we'll see 我想我们会看到

more power from solar than any other source. 太阳能提供的电力会超过任何其他能源。

All right. 好的。

So let's go back to another bet 那么我们再回到另一个赌注

that you made with yourself, I guess. 我想是你和自己打的赌。

I mean, a kind of crazy bet. 我的意思是，那是一种疯狂的赌注。

You'd made some money 你赚了一些钱

from the sale of PayPal. 通过出售PayPal。

You decided to build a space company. 你决定建立一家太空公司。

Why on earth would someone do 到底为什么会有人做

that? 那种事呢？

Got that question a lot, that's true. 我经常被问到这个问题，确实如此。

Did you hear the joke about the guy 你听过那个关于一个人的笑话吗

who 他

made a small fortune in the space industry, 在航天工业赚了一小笔钱，

and he 而他

obviously started with a large one 显然一开始就有一大笔钱

as the punchline? 作为笑点吗？

And so I tell people, I was trying to figure out the fastest 所以我告诉人们，我当时在想最快的

way to turn a large fortune into a small one. 方法就是把一大笔财富变成一小笔。

And they'd look at me like, is he serious? 他们会看着我，好像在问，他是认真的吗？

And strangely, you were. 奇怪的是，你确实是认真的。

So 那么

what happened? 发生了什么？

It was a close call. 那真是千钧一发。

I mean, things almost didn't work out. 我的意思是，事情差点就没成功。

We came very close to failure, 我们曾非常接近失败，

but 但是

we managed to get through 我们设法挺过了

that point in 2008. 2008年的那个关头。

The SpaceX的

goal of SpaceX is to try to 目标是尝试

advance rocket technology, 推进火箭技术，

and in particular, to try to crack a problem 特别是，尝试解决一个问题

that I think is vital 我认为这个问题至关重要

for humanity to become a space-faring civilization, 对于人类成为一个太空文明来说，

which is to have a 那就是拥有一个

rapidly 快速

and fully reusable rocket. 且完全可重复使用的火箭。