Chapter 320 Award Ceremony
"It's so beautiful."

At SpaceX's Starlink factory in southern Texas, Musk looked up at the small but exquisite robot.

Musk would not spend his own money on such projects if it were not to demonstrate America's industrial strength to the world.

Now that the White House is paying for it and has allocated a budget of $5 million, there is only one requirement, which is to demonstrate America's technological strength as much as possible.

The American military's bills include a $1280 coffee cup and a $1 toilet seat. For them, $5 million is just a drop in the bucket.

If Boeing were to take on this project, it could increase the budget infinitely.

It started with $5 million and ended up with $50 billion, and in the end they just used robots made by a Turkish company to deal with the problem.

Washington bureaucrats are not good at other things, but they are particularly good at this.

However, the person in charge of this project is Musk, and Musk will also increase the budget, but after increasing the budget, he can still get things done in the end.

Still better than Boeing.

From this perspective, we can see Musk's strength. He is able to engage in manufacturing in America at present. SpaceX still only wants Americans as employees and does not even accept immigrants.

Boeing’s chaos has even led to voices on Wall Street calling for Musk to take over Boeing.

For Wall Street and the White House, it doesn't matter who is in charge of Boeing, as long as it is not tg. What matters most is that it can bring them benefits.

“Of course, we work with NASA, Oak Ridge Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, and they license a lot of technology that has not been publicly demonstrated before.

The purpose is to showcase America's technological strength to the global public at this awards ceremony.

I have great confidence in it." Jesse Anderson, SpaceX's executive in charge of manufacturing and technology development, is very confident in the Transformers that are being built with the strength of the entire United States.

"If it's well received enough, we could even sell it as Tesla's Cyberpunk equivalent to someone who can afford to pay $10 million without batting an eyebrow," Anderson continued.

“Then you have to convince Lockheed first. You know, the core power stabilization system comes from Lockheed Martin.

I know it’s perfect, but we’re dealing with Wright.” Musk is clearly not as self-satisfied as Anderson.

Musk knew very well from repeated setbacks in the past that Wright was never an easy opponent to deal with.

Anderson nodded and said, “Of course, if the opponent is not Wright, but just Xiaomi, I don’t think we need to cooperate with other organizations.

We will cooperate, and these cooperative institutions will obediently hand over the cutting-edge technology of the laboratory to us, isn't it because the opponent is Wright? "

Anderson has full confidence in American.

“If there were three years this time, I would indeed be worried about losing to Wright, but this time there are only three months, and Wright is a human, not a god.

The technology of the University of the East, other than that in which Wright participated, is behind ours and not worth worrying about.

If they want to catch up with America, one Wright is not enough, they need hundreds of Wrights." Anderson explained his reasons.

For good reason.

Time is your biggest enemy.

Even if you have complete data on the entire process of technology from research and development to implementation, it still takes time to replicate it in a new environment.

Musk touched his face and thought that one Wright had already made the bigwigs in the White House worried. If there were a hundred Wrights, then the congressmen in Washington would probably not be able to sleep well.

"I hope you're right."

Everyone's ideas are similar, which is to try to get as close as possible to the scenes in the Transformers movies.

Because cars are inherently deformable, it's hard to do many different things with them. The Transformers in the movies can change their size and mass at will, which is simply impossible in the real world.

So in their opinion, it all comes down to seeing whose transformation is smoother, and whose overall car and transformed Autobots are more in line with the aesthetic of future technology.

It also includes stability and smoothness during walking.

In Andre's opinion, they are already at the pinnacle of Blue Star's current technology.

"Of course we are right."

In order to reserve enough time for Musk and Chen Yuanguang, the Nobel Prize Committee specially postponed the award ceremony to the last day of 2026.

“Yuan Guang, we have decided that HBM technology can be made public. You can announce this decision at the Nobel Prize ceremony when you attend it.

It can be considered as a gift from you to the world." said the new person in charge of the connection.

Stockholm is extremely cold in December.

As a famous Nordic city, the annual Nobel Prize ceremony is the glory of this city.

Except for some special reasons in 2020, when the awards were issued online, the 21st Nobel Prize quickly resumed the tradition of offline awards.

Even though the awarding criteria of the Nobel Peace Prize have been criticized by the outside world, it cannot change the status of the Nobel science awards in people's hearts.

Before the award ceremony, there is usually a week-long Nobel Prize Week, during which the winners will attend press conferences, give speeches, talk about their work, and participate in some special seminars.

They have ample time to present themselves in public.

This is the pinnacle of glory for most scholars.

Chen Yuanguang did not get such an opportunity.

Instead, Musk, who came to Stockholm a week in advance for rehearsal, got a lot of opportunities to appear.

Many European media are happy to focus their cameras on him.

After all, Musk is also one of the sources of traffic, especially after he became the chairman of the Efficiency Committee, he has been on the global media headlines every now and then because of his radical remarks.

In addition to his good personal relationship with Chen Yuanguang, many media outlets wanted to do an exclusive interview with him.

Finally Sky TV got the chance.

"Elon, it's great to have the opportunity to interview you." The white old man seemed very enthusiastic.

In the public eye, Musk's power is even greater than that of Murdoch, the boss behind Sky TV.

"You are also welcome to come to Stockholm. I thought you would be afraid to come because you were worried about the European Parliament suing you."

In 24 years, Musk commented on the events in England.

Musk looked confused: "Europe? Didn't I mock England?

I remember it was the Justice Secretary of England who attacked me.”

The host reminded: "In addition to Heidi, Breton, the then European Commission's Internal Market Commissioner, also warned you."

Musk laughed: "He's a nobody from nowhere."

Obviously he didn't take Breton seriously.

“I’m sorry, I never remember such minor characters.

Tell me this when he becomes president of the European Commission."

"Elon, the small talk is over, let's officially start today's interview. What do you think of Wright winning this year's Nobel Prize in Physics?" the host interrupted. Breton was actually promoted and is now the vice chairman of the European Market Commission.

Although this position cannot affect Musk, it is not difficult to influence Sky TV.

The host hoped to stop Musk's humiliation by changing the subject.

"This is the honor of the Nobel Prize. If it weren't for the damn political manipulation, Wright should have won the Nobel Prize in Physics two years ago. It is hard to imagine that in the past decade, there is any invention that has changed our society more profoundly than room-temperature superconductivity.

The last time a smartphone changed human society was more than ten years ago.

It’s really hard for me to imagine how boring the world would be without room-temperature superconductivity.”

Musk has always admired Chen Yuanguang because there is no conflict of interest between the two parties. Both Guangjia Aerospace and SpaceX make launch vehicles, but the market conflict between the two is very small.

It is impossible for SpaceX to gain the large eastern market, and it is equally impossible for Guangjia Aerospace to gain the large western market.

Musk has never concealed this admiration, unless there is a direct conflict of interest.

"You think very highly of him," the host said in amazement.

“This is because the West has been stigmatizing scientists at the University of Tokyo.

We know very well that room-temperature superconductivity comes entirely from Wright's invention, and Korean scientists may have only made a 90% contribution. However, in many mainstream media reports, the contribution of Korean scientists is said to be %, and Wright only did a small job.

This statement is far from the truth." Musk said naturally.

The host asked: "So you think it is right not to share the Nobel Prize with Korean scientists this time?"

After the Nobel Prize was announced, Goryeo had the most enthusiastic response.

The Korean media and the Korean people believe that since the reason for the award is room-temperature superconductivity, why is there no Korean scientist who first proposed LK99?

The Korean people came out to protest, believing that the Nobel Prize has no credibility.

Musk said as a matter of course: "Of course it is correct. The Korean scientists discovered that there is a moon in the sky, and Wright summarized the orbit and movement rules of the moon."

"Did you come to Stockholm this time also to accept Wright's invitation?" the host asked.

Musk said: “Yes, didn’t the Nobel Committee say that?
He had a proposal that I thought was interesting, so I agreed.”

The host asked, "So what's the proposal?"

Musk said: "You will know when the awards ceremony comes. It's only a few days away."

The number of attendees at the Nobel Prize ceremony each year is generally around 1,500.

This year, both Chen Yuanguang and Musk will participate.

The number of people is greater than in previous years, and the Nobel Prize authorities have sent out more than two thousand invitations.

Parliamentarians, scholars and businessmen from European countries large and small all hope to receive an invitation.

Unlike previous years when the concert was held in the concert hall of the Stockholm City Hall, this time it was held outside the city.

The entire out-of-town venue was cordoned off and security was much stricter than in previous years. It was a scene that the Swedish celebrities who had attended the award ceremony many times had never seen before.

"It looks cool, but it feels cramped inside," Musk said after getting into the Tesla X.

They named the car X, symbolizing mystery.

Musk also particularly likes the letter X, and he even renamed Twitter to X.

Anderson followed the maintenance team to the site, and they rehearsed three times that week.

At the same time, we also observed the Transformers of the other two companies.

Andre became more confident after watching it.

Wright's Autobots, printed with the Space and Light Armor aerospace logos, were only slightly more stable than theirs while moving.

There is no way other places can compare to X.

“Elon, the main feature of luxury cars is discomfort, and the more uncomfortable a car is, the more luxurious it is.

This appearance has determined that X will beat Lamborghini and Ferrari before Space.

Get ready for Tesla's moment," said Andre.

Chen Yuanguang did not feel uncomfortable at all because he was controlling the robot remotely.

The robots in the Autobots are double nested.

"It's so cold. If I didn't want to see Musk and Wright, I wouldn't have come here in the cold wind." A socialite wearing a coat without a logo said to her female companion.

There are many people who have similar ideas.

After it was confirmed that both Chen Yuanguang and Musk would attend the award ceremony remotely via robots, the rights to the live broadcast of the Nobel Prize were sold to media in various countries around the world at high prices.

Including the sponsors, everything was sold.

The official partners are Google and ByteDance.

Both are looking for a sense of existence.

Xiaomi originally wanted to show its face, but during the pre-rehearsal process, the gap between it and the other two companies was visibly large.

Lei Jun finally chose to give up and just came to watch the award ceremony as an ordinary audience member.

Anyway, Xiaomi is also one of the sponsors of this award ceremony.

The gap itself is not the most critical factor. The most critical reason why Lei Jun chose to give up is that compared with X and Guangjia, Xiaomi's Su has too strong a toy feel.

It's just that there is a gap in technology, which is not important. Xiaomi is not known for its technology.

But the strong toy-like feeling is too fatal. If a car brand leaves such an impression on consumers, it will directly affect sales.

Xiaomi's decision was decisive.

When Musk showed up at the venue driving a black streamlined sports car, the audience knew something big was coming.

When they were rehearsing before, someone flew a drone and vaguely captured it.

"Wow."

There was a noisy sound in the venue.

"This logo looks like it's definitely a Tesla."

“This looks a lot like the Tesla Y, what’s new about that?”

Wait until the Tesla Y transforms from an electric car into an Autobot, walks smoothly up the stairs, walks toward the audience, and then turns back into a car.

The entire transformation process was extremely smooth. Some viewers took out their mobile phones to take pictures, but they didn't capture the previous transformation process.

After Musk walked out of X, he walked to the pre-arranged seat with an expressionless face.

He knew that many mobile phones were pointed at him at this time, and all he needed to do was show off.

This is what Iron Man looks like when he drops from the sky to be interviewed, Musk thought.

In fact, no one took a picture of him because X turned himself into a car and moved away from the audience.

The audience at the scene were all taking pictures of the Autobots. Who would want to take pictures of Musk’s face that had appeared countless times in the media?

"Misstep."

(End of this chapter)