Listen to the TV series of the podcasts, and talk about the satellite revolution in the 1980s and 1990s, which is very similar to the Internet and AI revolution later. At that time, there was also a "Chinese Musk" Mou Zhongzhong's crazy "artificial moon project". Musk's ending is to become the world's richest man, while Mou Zhongzhong's ending is 16 years in prison. Interesting historical plot, talked to GPT for more details: The revolution truly brought by satellites is the first time that "global real-time communication" has become possible. Before the emergence of satellites, long-distance communication mainly relied on submarine optical cables, but installation and maintenance were very difficult and the quantity was extremely small. For the first time, satellites have turned "signals from the ground to the sky to any other ground" into reality, allowing news broadcasts, international phone calls, cross-border television signals, and military command to be completed almost in real time. This is like a 'global unification of the physical layer', where the Earth is connected from a fragmented network into a whole. Mou's "Satellite Illumination Earth Plan" is essentially a sci-fi advertising project. He proposed in the 1990s to rent or launch a satellite that reflects sunlight, reflecting it onto cities on Earth at night, allowing them to shine for several hours at dawn, and even creating "advertising spots" to illuminate a certain city. This is called the 'Artificial Moon Project'. It may sound crazy, but it's not entirely a pipe dream - the Soviet Union/Russia did indeed conduct similar "Znamya" reflector satellite experiments at the time. The plan idea is: the satellite is equipped with a huge thin film mirror, which, when unfolded, resembles a reflector ranging from tens to hundreds of meters, reflecting sunlight onto the Earth's night surface. The real difference between Mou Zhong and Musk is very fundamental: Musk's story has a mature engineering team and achievable path behind it, while Mou Zhong basically doesn't. SpaceX rocket technology is truly a global leader; Tesla has advantages in battery system, supply chain, and software; The satellite deployment density of Starlink is a real existence. Behind every 'grand vision' lies a rigorous engineering roadmap. Many of Mou's projects have almost no real engineering support, relying on political connections, imagination, commercial packaging, and extremely weak technical teams and feasibility studies. Mou's "likeness" is mainly a projection of the cultural era. China in the 1990s was an era of information explosion, chaotic order, but extremely open dreams. The emotions of "the country is rising" and "technology can change everything" make Mou Zhongzhong appear like a "madman ahead of the times". Mou Zhongzhong was born in Sichuan. During his youth, he came from a difficult family background, but his mind was extremely flexible and he dared to take risks. In the early stages of reform and opening up, he made a fortune through "reverse trade" and was one of the earliest people to use price differentials for arbitrage and boldly engage in cross-border trade. Buy planes from the Soviet Union, exchange them for scarce domestic supplies, and then sell the supplies. The real point of collapse was the failure of his "China Russia Barter Trade" in the mid-1990s, which caused a disruption in the funding chain. In 1999, Mou Zhongzhong was arrested on suspicion of "financial fraud and economic issues", and the Nande Group immediately collapsed. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison by the court, and later his sentence was extended due to additional cases. Eventually, he stayed in prison for 16 years and was released at the age of over 70. However, he still insisted that he "did not fail, but his ideals were delayed by the times" and continued to promote his grand ideals to the media.