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On May 4th Youth Day of 2020, the first son of Elon Musk and girlfriend Claire (Grimes Boucher) was born. Then they quickly announced the name given to the child: X Æ A-12 .
Musk embraces the newborn with a kind face, big words written on his t-shirt: Occupy Mars (OCCUPY MARS) ｜ Twitter screenshot
Therefore, Musk has always been unmatched, even the child ’s name is so unique: the alphanumeric characters are connected together, and they look very unreasonable, like a random string of codes generated by machines. But if you have a little understanding of this couple, everyone should know that they will not let this opportunity to play terrier so easily.
According to Musk himself, most of the name’s creativity came from his girlfriend Grimes. On May 6th, Grimes himself also posted on Twitter to explain the meaning of the name.
Elon Musk girlfriend Grimes tweeted the name “X Æ A-12” and interpreted it ｜ Twitter screenshot
Grimes introduced , and X represents an unknown variable in mathematics . Æ is Ai (Love / Artificial Intelligence ) spelling in sprites . A-12 stands for Archangel-12, the predecessor of the SR-71 “Blackbird” reconnaissance aircraft that she and Musk liked. No weapons, no defensive equipment, only speed. Good at fighting, but does not resort to force.
In a podcast show of Joe Rogan Experience, (http://dwz.date/a4DN) , Musk also demonstrated The correct reading of this name is actually quite simple, that is, “X Ash A 12 (Axan Shi Ao Tuan Wu V) ” , X is the pronunciation of the letter X, A-12 does not need to pronounce the bar.
Although it is really personal, for X Æ A-12 born in Los Angeles, according to California law: the name on the birth certificate should not be longer than 26 English letters, at most apostrophes can be used (separation symbol) and hyphen. Therefore,“ Æ ”and“ 12 ”cannot be entered into the document, which means that he may not be able to complete the birth registration. Although he can appeal after being rejected, he wins The chance is very small, so in the end it is likely that the two will be forced to change the name of the full flavor.
Baby ’s name, parents ’expectations
Instead of worrying about whether Musk and Grimes ’sons can be registered, let ’s take a closer look at the name“ X Æ A-12 ”.
Generally speaking, the name of the child implies the expectation of the parents, which is acceptable in any country in the world. Because the invention of words was given a specific meaning at the beginning. A science and engineering man with a high IQ, such as Musk, is even more addicted to the meaning of symbols.
The “X” at the beginning of the name represents an unknown variable in mathematics.
SpaceX and NASA jointly developed the Crew Dragon Spaceship (Crew Dragon Spaceship) will be launched on May 27, 2020 Pacific Time | SpaceX
Musk is actually obsessed with the letter “X”. His space exploration company is called SpaceX. Tesla ’s SUV model is Model X. X itself has “future, mysterious, exciting, adventurous.” , New… .. ”these meanings, so the Google X Lab is almost cutting-edge scientific research projects, and Musk and Grimes use the initial letter X as the definition, may hope that he can explore the unknown in the future, in a limited life Create unlimited value.
The “Æ” in the middle, Grimes means taken from the wizard text pair Ai (love or artificial intelligence) spelling.
The insertion of this middle elven symbol, the author suspects that Grimes, who is a mother, hopes that his children can inherit their “quirky” traits in the future, and can love to embrace love, or hope that he will be in the field of artificial intelligence Can make some achievements.
When it comes to artificial intelligence, Musk and Grimes’ acquaintance is also due to the “red line” of artificial intelligence. Grimes is from Canada and is a singer-songwriter. Fans like to call it “Little Fairy”. She is 17 years younger than Musk, like a female version of Musk who traveled through time and space.
Elon Musk and girlfriend Claire “Grimes” Boucher attended the 2018 New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Charity Ball Red Carpet ｜ People ’s Vision
She claims to have multiple personalities, her real name is Claire Boucher, and Grimes is just her popular idol personality. Her work is full of things that ordinary people can’t understand, such as Martian, she also acted as a self-directed and self-cut MV, painted the album cover by herself, and even “closed” for 3 weeks before recording the MV, 9 days without eating or sleeping Stimulate inspiration. This crazy personality is a perfect match for Musk, who sleeps in a super factory in a tent.
And Musk took the initiative to find Grimes. Because he wanted to push a joke about artificial intelligence, Borrowing Roko’s Basilisk thought experiment to make a joke. As a result, I checked it online. This electronic was used by a singer named Grimes three years ago. At that time her MV created a character called Rococo Basilisk. Musk contacted her inside, Grimes said excitedly that “for the first time in three years, someone understands this stalk”, and now there is someone who laughs at AI like her.
Because an AI ca n’t understand the AI, the two people quickly fell in love. Now, Grimes, who is born, even selfishly dedicated her son ’s middle name to AI, but she still does n’t take the usual path The spelling of the elven script is out. Some netizens said that Grimes had a song called “4ÆM” in the new album released before, and could even be interpreted as “For Ash Musk”. Ash represents the tree of the world in Nordic mythology.
The final “A-12” was approved by Musk, who said that this is the most tacit understanding of the two.
The abbreviation of “A-12” is from Archangel 12, and it is the predecessor of the “Blackbird” strategic reconnaissance aircraft SR-71, which Musk and Grimes both like. A-12 is a single-seat reconnaissance aircraft manufactured by the “Skunk” factory for the US CIA. It is powered by two J58 turbojet engines, each with a thrust of 15422 kg and can carry Mach 3.2 “label =” Remarks “> (3541 km / h) continuous afterburning cruise.
A-12 reconnaissance aircraft developed by the US CIA codename “Archangel Project” ｜ Wikipedia
Grimes mentioned in a tweet that the A-12 has extremely fast speed, but does not carry defense and weapon systems. It is not the kind of aircraft that can cause violent damage like a bomber.But this high-speed aircraft has an obvious shortcoming. Pilots need to spend several hours wearing high-altitude flight suits like space suits before performing their missions. In the sealed cabin, they must slowly reduce the pressure to the low pressure of high-altitude flight. . After take-off, it is necessary to refuel in the air to fly the full range, so the major defect of too long preparation time finally makes A-12 and SR-71 withdraw from the stage of history.
But Musk put the code name of the coolest plane in his mind into the child ’s name, which is very logical for Musk, who is very addicted to speed, space exploration and travel.
SpaceX and NASA ’s Dragon spacecraft will depart on May 27th, Pacific time. Two astronauts will take the spacecraft manufactured by a commercial company to the International Space Station for the first time, although Spaceship for commercial space travel is still under development. But Musk’s longing for space travel has long been one of SpaceX’s visions, and this time he put this expectation on his children.
Crew Dragon is making final preparations before launch ｜ SpaceX
“X Æ A-12”, the name that looks so unreasonable and disassembled is quite interesting, and people can’t help but look forward to the future of Musk’s young boy. Growing up in such a family, since childhood, he has been dying for a long time. In the end, will he inherit his father ’s mantle, walk on the road of exploring the unknown, or become a different kind of existence like his mother, everything can only be left to time to judge.
Of course, such attention has been given since birth, and it may feel awkward when someone calls “X Ash A 12” on the road.
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