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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.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:22PM (2 children)
That's a brilliant idea. Genius. Let's bring back corvee labor---for MBAs. Give them spoons, and order them to dig out hyperloop tunnels. It would be the best use for MBAs the world has ever seen. We could put all the MBAs at one end, all the lawyers, lobbyists, politicians, and Wall Street bankers at the other end, and tell each group whoever gets to their mark first will feed, and the others will be fed. (We won't tell the winners until afterward they've been fed the losers)
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday October 31 2017, @08:58PM (1 child)
Yes, but if we're feeding our Soylent to our Soylent do we need to worry about prion diseases?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 31 2017, @11:54PM
No, but we might need to worry about pr0n diseases.
Washington DC delenda est.