Its probably a standard Musk project. Show futuristic marketing pictures/videos of round pod-style duturistic vehicles to billionaire oligarchs and clueless politicians with a buzzword salad, until the hype brings in investors. Interest in his companies goes up, the imaginary price of the company goes up, his imaginary gold pile gets bigger.
Then pocket the money and fail miserably delivering even a fraction of the promised things.
The tunnel in Las Vegas, Hyperloop, Cybertruck, Robotaxi (still in progress afaik) Tiny House, the electric freight truck (I don’t remember its name), the various Mars projects just to name a few.
Could be neat if Detective Miller engages arthropod-robot form to offer people a ride down said tunnel, all the while reminding riders to check doors and corners.
Can we also have a tunnel dug to the moon?
Ah yes, Elon Musk, who’s famed for the quality of his tunnels
Remember the trapped miner incident where he called someone a pedo
I think that was a trapped minor incident. The trapped miner incident happened around the same time, but didn’t involve Elon.
So yeah, it was about minors (children) trapped in a cave, not miners (the profession).
But in fairness, the Chilean miners I was thinking of was back in 2010.
Now you can travel from america to russia in only 8 days
secret invasion route
Honestly, I welcome them putting their army underground in an extremely obvious tunnel, it’s perfectly safe and they should definitely try this
Giving it to Musk is a way of guaranteeing it will never get done. Still waiting for full self driving, Elon.
OK, but it has to be from the east coast going across the Atlantic, and you have to pay for it all.
If we took it at face value, this would distract Russia from Ukraine - diverting attention and resources eastwards. I think this proposal is just a means of laundering resources to bypass sanctions and NATO, to supply Russia with stuff that they can build war materials with.
He needs to build a tunnel to life in prison
Truer words have never been spoken.
Personally? By hand? Please?
He can’t even build one in Vegas…
Ok Bering Strait, so only geopolitically, geologically, and financially insane.
Like I kinda see a world where this is a good idea. If ww2 had sparked a long brotherhood between our nations and with europe a high speed rail across the tundras might be a good lower carbon alternative to flying and the Bering Strait is the most land based path between Eurasia and the Americas. Personally I’m not certain a tunnel is better than a bridge for this, but a few days train ride from cascadia to Moscow or Beijing would have plenty of takers if everyone was chill and could take a high speed train ride from Moscow to Madrid (and major cities in between) and from Beijing to Ho Chi Minh City, Seoul, Bangkok, etc. It would leave flying as really only necessary for Australia and island nations like Japan.
That’s however not the world we live in, and Americans aren’t clamoring to go to Russia or trade with them
All this does, is convince me that Putin is a moron, too.
unless he’s doing it to make the US spend money on nonsense.
Nah, these are loyalty tests by dictators, to prove that they will follow them no matter how crazy the idea is.
That will be great when the first earthquake undoes the tunnel
What I expect to happen is he’ll promise it, get funding for it, do a mile of it, drop everything about it, report a higher wealth value, get into a suspicious one car crash
If that can keep Elon Musk busy, I’m all for it.
It will involve corruption and graft of your taxpayer money, tho
So business as usual then
What doesn’t?
