The boring company could provide the tech to build tunnels on Mars. And with the minimal atmosphere you'll have a Hyperloop. Hardly a coincidence.
Oh my god.
I literally just now got the joke: the boring company.
Because they bore tunnels.
Good morning :)
Apparently it took over a year for the coffee to kick in! I just always shrugged and thought it was a cutesy name for a company that did something boring like dig tunnels. I cannot believe that pun escaped me for so long. :)
I wear the hat everyday - a good conversation starter. Some people guess it's an accounting company name.
They are aiming for 1223 kmph (760 mph) on Earth, I wonder how that differs with lower gravity.
Please tell me that is not what Musk really thinks he's doing...
Nobody is boring cities on Mars with diggers designed to bore small sewer tunnels. Boring Co still has a long way to go to demonstrate basic competence at digging small tunnels and this is an area where obstacles increase with scale.
Maybe it is rather to create entrance tunnels into existing caves. Because of low gravity on Mars, lava tubes are expected to be enormous.
It makes sense to pursue technologies that can pivot from expanding humanity's potential to simply guaranteeing survival. But only the former is what people are going to want to hear about, while the latter is where we seem to be heading.