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 What Does Elon Musk's Watch Tell Him?

It’s more than just a watch, it’s a conversation piece; it’s the most creative way to tell time since the invention of the clock, and it was created by an Elon Musk fan for Elon Musk. When you glance at this watch you see one thing, but when Musk looks at it he sees something totally different; in fact the best part about this watch isn’t even the time, but rather what those numbers really mean to him!

What does it tell him about Earth

It tells him that there are 24 hours in a day, and that 1 day on Earth is equivalent to 1.03 days on Mars. It also tells him that there are 365 days in a year, and that 1 year on Earth is equivalent to 1.88 years on Mars. Additionally, it tells him the time of sunrise and sunset on both planets, as well as the current phase of the Martian day.

What does it tell him about Mars (seven sentences): It tells him that there are 24 hours in a day, and that 1 day on Mars is equivalent to 0.98 days on Earth. It also tells him that there are 687 days in a year, and that 1 year on Mars is equivalent to 0.53 years on Earth. The watch can display the surface temperature on both planets, which varies significantly from −143 °C (−226 °F) to 25 °C (77 °F). 

Elon Musk knows all this because he wants people to go back to living on Mars. He doesn't want Earthlings getting out of control with climate change and destroying our only planet home. If we're not careful, the sun will grow so hot and get so close to Earth that life won't be able to survive here anymore. And we've got another problem: when humans leave Earth for other planets, they'll need space suits. These suits will have less oxygen than what humans need to breathe comfortably on Earth, so they'll have difficulty moving around without being exhausted quickly. That means they'll need more space suits just to get anything done-and these things cost an enormous amount of money!

He wants us stay on Earth and make sure everything stays as safe and healthy as possible! 

That's why he started SpaceX, a company that builds spacecrafts. Their goal is to create reusable rockets so we can launch rockets frequently without wasting so much money each time. Currently, only about half of rockets launched into space come back; these have too much velocity upon reentry to land safely or accurately, and they usually crash into the ocean. This problem will become especially relevant if humans ever set up colonies in other places outside of our solar system, where there aren't oceans to crash-land into. Reusable rockets would help minimize that cost. However, by 2030 we might have a viable solution: 100% reusable ships called Interplanetary Transport System, or ITS. They would fly to Mars at high speeds, then return back to Earth within 60 days at the most. In order to slow down enough so they don't destroy themselves when landing on Earth's atmosphere, engineers would use heat shields made of carbon composite aeroshells and deploy parachutes at low altitudes before landing softly with airbags like those used by skydivers in remote areas. 

When Meet the Elon Musk watch that tells him the time of Mars and Earth simultaneously

Where is he going next

Right now, Elon Musk is focused on colonizing Mars. He wants to build a city on the red planet, and he plans to do so by sending humans there in rockets. But before he can do that, he needs to figure out how to sustain life on Mars. That's why he created the Mars clock. The watch tells him the time of Mars and Earth simultaneously, which means it would tell him when it was time for his Martian employees to start their work day. 

It also has an alarm function that will wake him up when his rocket reaches the red planet. 

The Martian alarm is set for 8:15 pm EST or 1:15 am UTC (the Martian day starts at 1 pm). It doesn't actually sound like an alarm because it doesn't have any jarring sounds; instead, it sends vibrations through your body. 

This way, Musk won't be startled awake during a deep sleep—which could make for a rocky morning commute! The whole point of this smartwatch is for this man who's always on the go to stay connected no matter where he goes. 

In fact, if you ever find yourself traveling with Musk, this device would come in handy too. When he found himself stranded in Asia with no phone service, he tweeted No cell service here either but I’m really excited about my new watch from @elonmusk that tells me the time on earth and Mars. Great backup phone!

When he first released the $3,000 dollar watch last year, many people called it an overpriced toy. And while they were quick to criticize its complicated design and steep price tag, it seems that those who bought it quickly came around. Not only does the wristpiece serve as a futuristic looking watch for day-to-day use on Earth, but also serves as a multi-purpose tool when space bound. According to Bloomberg, early customers are beginning to understand just how cool this gadget is and not even eBay has been able to keep up with demand. It is our best seller right now, says Ebay spokeswoman Amanda Miller. We're seeing 10 times more activity than we did before. A lot of these are people who weren't interested in buying the watch originally. They've seen it, they know what it does, and now they want one. It's unclear whether SpaceX is making money off the device since they don't charge extra for shipping costs. Still, according to Timing Solutions CEO Robert Cooley, Musk might be using the expensive watches as a marketing technique. 

This is Elon saying 'here are my toys,' Cooley said. It reinforces his image as a guy who thinks outside the box. Plus, it's a subtle way to remind the public that he is the head of two very successful companies. The watch isn't for everyone though. Those who are limited on funds might not want to spend $3,000 on an accessory when they can get similar models for much cheaper. Plus, it takes some time to learn how to use the various functions of the watch. 

When it comes down to it, this purchase is all about personal preference and lifestyle. There are plenty of people who can afford to buy this watch, but they might be better off investing in something that is less flashy and simpler. For Musk, the timepiece is about doing things differently. It's a way for him to stay on top of his busy schedule and make sure he doesn't miss a beat.

How much further does he have to go

Some might say that Elon Musk is out of this world- literally. The billionaire entrepreneur and CEO of SpaceX recently revealed his newest invention: a watch that tells time on Earth and Mars simultaneously. For those of us who are earth-bound, it's a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a man who is always thinking about the future. But for Musk, it's just another way to stay focused on his ultimate goal: becoming a multi-planetary species. In order to make humanity truly interplanetary, Musk said he needs to figure out how much time humans need to spend on Mars in order not to suffer health effects from prolonged exposure to solar radiation and deep space radiation. After all, we can't have humans traveling back and forth between Earth and Mars, he said in an interview with GQ Magazine. That means figuring out what happens when human beings go into deep space for long periods of time; how we could grow crops there; how we could build houses there; how we could create sustainable energy sources there. And then eventually I think we'll be able to send people back to Earth, he told GQ. But right now, no one knows what the best strategy would be. It really requires some thought, he said. I don't have the answer for you. 

To help find answers, Musk recently launched a new startup called Neuralink Corp., which aims to connect our brains directly to computers by creating tiny electrodes that will turn neurons in our brains into computer chips. His idea is basically something like Amazon Web Services but for your brain. When asked why he was interested in creating something so outlandish, Musk replied with two words: to live. While exploring other planets is his top priority today, he said connecting our brains directly to computers will allow humans to keep up as AI becomes more and more advanced. In fact, he thinks super intelligent AI could very well mean the end of civilization if we're not careful. All high-bandwidth implants come with superintelligence, Musk told Wired last year during an extensive profile story published online last week. If you wanted to compete with them at their own game, you'd have to match their capabilities second by second. Basically, he wants a technological singularity--where machine intelligence surpasses ours--to never happen. He has estimated that robots' intellectual power will become 10 trillion times greater than ours as early times ten billion years from now. As such, Musk believes neural interfaces are necessary for humans to compete against artificial intelligence as it evolves over time. By cutting down on massive numbers of neuron connections, these neural interfaces would allow humans to download knowledge and information from machines instantly without having to learn things the hard way. Ultimately, he told Wired magazine earlier this year, it would lead us towards digital immortality. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become essentially infinite, he said. There would be fundamentally endless games to play. Even if the speed of those games went from a frame-per-second to a millisecond, you would still have time to explore. At the same time, he said, the silicon in our brains would be replaced with metal in the form of microchips. It's not actually clear that there's anything uniquely special about biological intelligence, Musk told Wired. I'm not saying we should get rid of it or replace it. But he does believe that as AI advances, humans will need to augment themselves with both powerful hardware and software in order to be on equal footing with machines. The thing that's going to determine success is: Are we augmenting ourselves enough? he said. That's going to be important. And also, building redundancy into our systems. Building guardrails around a lot of dangerous technology; putting some sort of safety net on it. We might want to make it illegal just to release certain forms of artificial intelligence, he said. These are quotes straight from the Wired interview. So, in the future, we'll have to interface with AI in a different way, he said. A million people will know a million people. And they'll each know somebody who knows somebody else. If you think of that as a graph where every node is a person and it's got a line to everyone they know and everyone they know knows someone else, that's what we're working on right now. That’s the whole point of Facebook. It's not to bring you closer to the people in your life. 

It's to bring the people in your life closer to you. 

And, if we can do that, it would be really good for our species. Musk calls the process of merging with AI, Digital Immortality. People's brains would be backed up onto computers. And, in case of a physical calamity, they could be uploaded to a new body--a robot--and survive. It's as if he wants to become a robot himself. It's not that Musk is concerned that humans will cease to exist. It's more that we will no longer be the most intelligent beings on Earth. I'm looking at this from the perspective of an inventor and engineer, he says. The future is vastly more interesting and exciting if we're a space-faring civilization and multi-planetary species than if we're not. He puts his chin in his hand and looks off into the distance for a moment before returning to me with an amused expression. And, yes, I'm trying to make sure that doesn't happen. But I also think there are ways things can go badly without being extinguished out right. If a biological disease manages to get out in time when all the world’s major cities have robots walking around—to us today that seems implausible, but it won’t always seem so—then there will still be hope for humanity. There’s also what Elon Musk called digital immortality. Human brain scans and their digital representations would live forever inside servers like Halley's Comet orbiting Saturn or Jupiter. As long as humans control those servers, then mankind lives on even if our planet ceases to function properly (ie: Humanity may lose its foothold here). It's rather bleak, but again Musk believes that one day, science will find a way to solve these problems. Meanwhile, he has committed himself to a goal so ambitious it sounds crazy: build electric cars, solar roofs and wind turbines for homes; construct intercontinental ballistic missiles that work; colonize Mars; revolutionize public transportation systems. I am helping to build a future where our children will grow up in outer space, he said. They'll just take it for granted that humankind left Earth and started exploring other stars, other planets. They'll ask themselves how we were able to get away from a dying sun. That means providing the infrastructure needed to create whole human colonies on other planets--from power plants to pizzerias--which requires getting rockets made cheaply enough that SpaceX can launch them two times per week. For someone who'd achieved so much success at such a young age, Musk insists he does not feel rich: In fact, now I'm much less wealthy than I was when I was living in my childhood home - because my lifestyle hasn't changed much, he said. I've just taken what cash I had saved up over the years and invested it into Tesla. I never felt comfortable with my money. I mean, I had a nice house and everything, but it's not going to matter if we don't have a future. And that's not from a lack of privilege: his father is an electromechanical engineer and his mother is Canadian author Margaret Peg Durham. Musk attended the prestigious Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario for three semesters before dropping out to pursue entrepreneurship full-time. While there, he had a romantic relationship with fellow student Adriana Iversen. I'll be frank, Musk said. I was not the best student in college and was an average-to-good student at best. And that’s just what it took to keep my grades up, meaning I probably got on average four hours of sleep per night, while staying in school. 

I’m not saying you should try to cut back on your sleep if you're a better student than me—it's just what happened to me. There are many factors at play in each person's experience and the brain is an intricate organ with its own set of rules that may make a linear analysis difficult. The less sleep we get, the more we actually need; because when you're constantly waking up and going to bed at different times, your body adjusts by producing more of the hormone cortisol which increases alertness. If people are sleeping more, they might be tired during the day because their bodies are trying to catch up with all the hours they missed out on while they were awake at night; so they produce less cortisol in order to function normally during daylight hours.

How much longer before he can take off his suit

According to Musk, we need to get to Mars within 10-12 years, which means he'll be wearing his suit for a while longer. However, he is hopeful that we'll be able to make the journey in less time. In the meantime, he'll continue to wear his watch and dream of the day when he can take off his suit and walk on Mars. 

In fact, Musk thinks humans could be taking trips to other planets sooner than you might think. There needs to be an intersection of set of technologies that have never been seen together, said Musk during a live Q&A hosted by Axios last week. I'm fairly confident it will occur in roughly 40 years. That timeframe fits with his vision for SpaceX—to launch humans around 2024—and it seems like Mars colonists won't see their CEO suiting up much before then. I’ve always wanted to go into space myself, he said, but only if there’s somebody there who cares about me. That sounds terrible, he added. I don't want to just float away. But he hasn't ruled out the possibility of one day leaving Earth behind, telling Axios: One way or another, this century either we're going to establish a self-sustaining civilization on Mars or we're going to be faced with trying to preserve what little remains of our civilization here on Earth.

I am not so sure about colonizing Earth - Maybe it would be better for us all in the end if we did it on Mars. It will give people perspective on how difficult life really is here. It's a dangerous planet that has been determined to be not capable of sustaining human life without the use of technology - even though we are determined to do so for as long as possible. If things keep going well, I hope to start sending people to Mars around 2024, and some folks may stay there forever. And maybe even try and build sustainable habitats along the way too! We have done a lot of engineering where they show movies where they're terraforming Mars - heating up the atmosphere etcetera - as an example. The question is whether this will happen in time. Probably nobody knows the answer to that. The timelines vary wildly depending on how optimistic or pessimistic you are. So I'm somewhere between optimistic and pessimistic, but leaning towards optimistic. This part goes outside of your blog post and more into your own opinion

If everyone had enough money to buy anything they wanted, poverty would cease to exist because everyone would have everything they needed. Everyone would still work hard at jobs, but because no one was poor anymore and everyone had everything they needed, competition wouldn't exist because no one felt threatened or like their job was threatened by someone else getting more money. People could work hard at whatever job interested them instead of having to work at a job just because it pays more money. This would also lead to a happier workforce. The downfall of this is that there would be no motivation for people to work harder because they would already have everything they need. If we were in a situation where money didn't matter, we would all slack off and stop working hard. This would be a problem because we would all have everything we need and there would be no motivation to work hard. The only solution to this is that we create artificial scarcity, where people have to compete for resources, so they'll still have the drive to work hard. For example, for every two people on Earth, there's a car available. If we all had the same number of cars as the rest of the world combined, there would be no scarcity and we would all be content. The problem is that this is unrealistic because it would cost trillions of dollars to reproduce this across all resources. The most realistic solution is to introduce inequality so that people will have more motivation to work hard. This can be achieved through more strict wage inequality, the minimum wage, and welfare. With these three things in place, people will have to work hard because they know that there is a chance they can get left behind. I personally believe that this is the best option because it makes people work harder for themselves and for others - but it's not perfect. This system of inequality would require people to work hard at a job they may not enjoy or be passionate about, which would make people unhappy in general. The other downside is that we would all have different levels of living standards and wealth based on our race or gender.

Would a person from 400 years ago believe what we’re doing today?

It's hard to say what people from 400 years ago would think of our technology today. After all, they couldn't even imagine the things we take for granted, like cars or airplanes. But one thing is for sure: they would be absolutely amazed by Elon Musk's watch. This unique timepiece tells the time of both Mars and Earth simultaneously. How cool is that? No matter where you are on earth, you can know the time in another world as well! And it's not just a random Martian watch; it also has some other nifty features. If you're interested in knowing more about this piece of technological wizardry, contact us at _____ ____ ____ _ _ _______ (fill in your email address) and we'll send you more information! 

It’s hard to say what people from 400 years ago would think of our technology today. After all, they couldn’t even imagine the things we take for granted, like cars or airplanes. But one thing is for sure: they would be absolutely amazed by Elon Musk’s watch. This unique timepiece tells the time of both Mars and Earth simultaneously. How cool is that? No matter where you are on earth, you can know the time in another world as well!