Posted on 03/07/2018 5:33:32 AM PST by BenLurkin
The City Council in Hawthorne, California voted four to one last night in favor of a plan from Elon Musk’s Boring Company to dig a two-mile-long underground test tunnel. The Boring Company, which operates from SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne outside Los Angeles, had until now only dug into and under its own private property. But the newly-approved extension will stretch beyond the company’s property line, with the tunnel running 44 feet below the public roads and utilities that surround SpaceX headquarters.
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People who find themselves in the area won’t even notice that anything is happening, according to Brett Horton, the senior director of facilities and construction for SpaceX. He assured the Council and the members of the public that they won’t see, hear, or feel any of the digging. “They won’t even know we’re there,” he said, even though the giant boring machine will be right below the ground.
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During the period of the meeting open for questions from the public, a citizen referenced the problems with collapsing soil that plagued the efforts to build a subway extension in North Hollywood in the 1990s. “What guarantees [do we have] that this doesn’t happen in Hawthorne?” he asked of the council, and of Horton.
Horton explained that the company thoroughly tests the soil and will provide the results to the city on a daily basis. If the ground moves so much as a half-inch in either direction, work will stop until a solution is found. Otherwise, if the public has any concerns, Horton said they can contact the city — or just come to SpaceX headquarters. “Our operations team is on site at the entrance shaft, so we’re easy to reach,” he said.
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Elon’s bomb shelter.
Will the tunnel be QUAKE PROOF?
YAWN
Him and the city’s higher level employees.
Elon Musk’s companies are never boring. They make cool products. They suck up huge amounts of our tax dollars because corrupt politicians funnel our money to him. But they’re not dull.
Tunnels adjacent to faults.
In California.
Yeah, that’ll work.
And his companies generate even more tax dollars in return. Net gain for taxpayers.
(...or should we cancel the mortgage interest tax credit? Mostly the same as the “tax dollars” Musk’s ventures get.)
It’s just another one of his scams to loot more taxpayer dollars.
At last we’ll know who to blame when the graboids rampage.
The Boring company also makes the worlds coolest looking, most expensive roofing torch.
People all over the place are changing their definition of the term “Flame thrower”
Quake proof? Not if you want it near the people that want it.
Ho hum
Actually, I would cancel the mortgage interest tax credit and all other tax credits. Businesses should be taxed on their net income (deducting expenses); tax everyone at a flat (lower) percentage rate. Taxes should only serve the purpose of collecting revenue, not social engineering, not even “desirable” social engineering.
Elon Musk, perhaps the biggest recipient of government dollars in history, tries to recreate the windfall for corruption and graft last seen at Boston’s “Big Dig”.
Two miles? Better have good HVAC................What could possibly go wrong?...............
My first thought too. Uh, how CLOSE will this tunnel be to an active FAULT line???
When your other company sends up satellites about every two weeks and then has the booster return under its own direction, digging tunnels at less than a snail’s pace is boring. In fact snails travel about 7 times faster than conventional boring equipment, and The Boring company, while faster than conventional equipment, is still trying to catch up to the snail.
lol
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