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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 31 2017, @03:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the can-you-dig-it? dept.

Elon Musk has released an image showing a tunnel under Hawthorne, California, near SpaceX's headquarters:

Musk's LA tunnel is a pilot project designed to test the feasibility of his plan to dig tunnels at a lower cost and more efficiently than current tunnel boring companies operate, with the eventual aim of supplying cities and regions with underground tunnel networks that can transport goods and services while avoiding surface obstacles and traffic.

The Boring Co. is still a long way from achieving the grand vision of constructing inter-city underground Hyperloop tubes for high-speed travel, but it's making rapid progress on its initial test digging and tunnel construction, which should go some way to proving to its detractors that this is more than just a pipe dream.

Also at Engadget and The Verge.

Previously: Elon Musk Wants to be Boring
Tunnel to 'Underworld' Discovered Beneath Mexican Pyramid
Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop
NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware?


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday October 31 2017, @05:18AM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 31 2017, @05:18AM (#589870) Journal

    AC says to put pumps in, which isn't a bad idea. Hell, I'll be honest, and admit it's a pretty good idea.

    But I mentioned "planning and placement". How 'bout, maybe we don't make any entries or exits where it floods? I realize that some place like Charleston, SC refers to a spot that is a mere ten feet higher than the rest of the city as a "hill". Coastal Florida might be even worse. There simply ARE no hills within a few miles of the beaches. But, most cities have elevated places that haven't flooded in recorded history.

    Unfortunately for my idea, a very large percentage of the US population lives on the coastal plains. So, those stations that can't be built up on a hill should maybe be built up with concrete, and furnished with water tight doors. Knowing that floods can happen, those doors need to be at least as sturdy as the flood walls in New Orleans. (Before someone makes the claim that New Orlean's flood wall failed, it didn't. A canal failed, which is an entirely different engineering thing.)

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by bob_super on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:49PM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:49PM (#590075)

    *stares in disbelief*
    You guys all know that MY, London, Paris, Shanghai have giant networks of tunnels, including under their respective rivers (therefore below the water table and/or sea level), that millions of people use for transportation, freight, and occasionally to hide from inconveniences like bombs dropping from the sky, right? It's only late-XIXth tech...

    It must be too early, and i missed a /s...

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 01 2017, @02:09AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday November 01 2017, @02:09AM (#590333) Journal

      *stares in disbelief*
      You guys all know that . . .

      To put it simply, no, they do not. We are talking Runaway1066 here. Pumps! Lets be honest!