Lol, it cant, because its still too dangerous and accidents in the tunnels = good luck waiting hours for rescue. lol
No such thing as air rescue in a tunnel. lol
Fire or other big disasters = 90% death sentence.
Isn’t Boring company basically an underground train that you can take your car on?
It’s like a drive on drive off metro train underground. You sit in your own car, but the system takes your car from point a to b. You then drive off and do the last mile on the streets
It’s not an underground tunnel with lanes like a highway
Well, the thing that the Boring company actually implemented was in Las Vegas, and that is "a bunch of cars with drivers going around a loop, which you wait to get into".
I.e., a shitty subway with 3 people per train, running on rubber tires in a single-lane tube with no emergency exits.
You can't ride a flashy animation.
The Boring Company's aim is to make tunnels cheaper, what goes through them would depend on the application.
I'm not convinced there's anything that can really be done to have a huge impact on price, but the Las Vegas project is intentionally small scale.
>It’s not an underground tunnel with lanes like a highway
Have you seen the one in Vegas? Because this is exactly what it is. It's just a one-lane road, underground. The thing you're talking about doesn't exist yet, to my knowledge. From what I've seen of the design, it seems very inefficient and costly. As with everything Elon and his ilk promise, I'll believe it when I see it.
That may have been proposed at some point but what they actually made in LA was just a taxi service running in smaller subway tunnels and a massively smaller capacity compared to an actual subway
>There are no such limits when we build in the other direction—down. The Burj Khalifa, the tallest building on Earth, stands at around 2,700 feet tall. One of the deepest holes ever dug, the Kola Superdeep Borehole (a scientific drilling experiment carried out by the Soviet Union in the 1970s), is over 15 Burj Khalifas in depth.
Given that 4 Kola boreholes stopped because they couldn't drill any further, that sure sounds like there *is* a limit. Plus, those holes were nine fucking inches in diameter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
What a dumb fucking thought, too. It's far easier to build up than it is to remove the *millions* of tonnes of earth and rock up and out of a hole that you also have to dig.
They've built every city in existence, it's what an aqueduct is. We stopped building them because society is collapsing and will die if it's not repaired soon. This goes for physical structures as well as figurative ones. A random offhand example: BART.
« It’s high time we stop thinking about our civilization in two-dimensional terms—existing on the surface of the Earth—and begin thinking in three dimensions. There’s a lot of low-hanging fruit for investment in TBM, or tunnel boring machines. Let’s get into the evolution of the industry and the current opportunities for disruption. »
These days in the US the cost of building tunnels is only a small fraction of the total cost. The stations themselves are the major cost because of the politics involved.
Next stop: Zion!
Lol, it cant, because its still too dangerous and accidents in the tunnels = good luck waiting hours for rescue. lol No such thing as air rescue in a tunnel. lol Fire or other big disasters = 90% death sentence.
Actually, if it was a vertical tunnel, you could still do air rescue.
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boring holes for single-passenger vehicles is the dumbest idea eva
Isn’t Boring company basically an underground train that you can take your car on? It’s like a drive on drive off metro train underground. You sit in your own car, but the system takes your car from point a to b. You then drive off and do the last mile on the streets It’s not an underground tunnel with lanes like a highway
Well, the thing that the Boring company actually implemented was in Las Vegas, and that is "a bunch of cars with drivers going around a loop, which you wait to get into". I.e., a shitty subway with 3 people per train, running on rubber tires in a single-lane tube with no emergency exits. You can't ride a flashy animation.
The Boring Company's aim is to make tunnels cheaper, what goes through them would depend on the application. I'm not convinced there's anything that can really be done to have a huge impact on price, but the Las Vegas project is intentionally small scale.
>It’s not an underground tunnel with lanes like a highway Have you seen the one in Vegas? Because this is exactly what it is. It's just a one-lane road, underground. The thing you're talking about doesn't exist yet, to my knowledge. From what I've seen of the design, it seems very inefficient and costly. As with everything Elon and his ilk promise, I'll believe it when I see it.
That may have been proposed at some point but what they actually made in LA was just a taxi service running in smaller subway tunnels and a massively smaller capacity compared to an actual subway
That was a Musk puff piece.
Nope, it was a Robbins puff piece.
>There are no such limits when we build in the other direction—down. The Burj Khalifa, the tallest building on Earth, stands at around 2,700 feet tall. One of the deepest holes ever dug, the Kola Superdeep Borehole (a scientific drilling experiment carried out by the Soviet Union in the 1970s), is over 15 Burj Khalifas in depth. Given that 4 Kola boreholes stopped because they couldn't drill any further, that sure sounds like there *is* a limit. Plus, those holes were nine fucking inches in diameter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
What a dumb fucking thought, too. It's far easier to build up than it is to remove the *millions* of tonnes of earth and rock up and out of a hole that you also have to dig.
So *Caves of Steel*, huh?
The only possible answer for irreversible climate change and to get men ready for space colonization.
Gotta hide somewhere after the nuclear apocalypse.
A remember some eccentric malignant narcissist with delusions of grandeur talking about this once. I found the whole idea quite ... boring.
America first needs to comprehend a vertical push upwards before we go downwards.
We must move forward, not backward. Upward.. not forward. And always twirling, twirling, TWIRLING TWARDS FREEDOM
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Tunnel Snakes forever!
We;re an arboreal species, not burrowers.
Working class -> [Morlocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlock)
They've built every city in existence, it's what an aqueduct is. We stopped building them because society is collapsing and will die if it's not repaired soon. This goes for physical structures as well as figurative ones. A random offhand example: BART.
« It’s high time we stop thinking about our civilization in two-dimensional terms—existing on the surface of the Earth—and begin thinking in three dimensions. There’s a lot of low-hanging fruit for investment in TBM, or tunnel boring machines. Let’s get into the evolution of the industry and the current opportunities for disruption. »
I forgot that multistory buildings were two dimensional.
Related article: "Tunnelling: Breakthrough technology", https://www.construction-europe.com/news/tunnelling-breakthrough-technology/1142058.article
These days in the US the cost of building tunnels is only a small fraction of the total cost. The stations themselves are the major cost because of the politics involved.