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This is nuts. How would they compensate for tectonic plate movement?
1 posted on 12/16/2024 4:43:57 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

It’s a hard pass for me. Plus, you can buy a lot of plane tickets for $20T.


2 posted on 12/16/2024 4:46:25 PM PST by dinodino ( Cut it down anyway. )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Is Musk really this stupid? I hope not....


3 posted on 12/16/2024 4:46:48 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Macho MAGA Man
This is nuts. How would they compensate for tectonic plate movement?

Snorkelers will be distributed to passengers in case of "incident"*

*there may possibly be fewer snorkelers than passengers to avoid a cluttered appearance in the cabin

5 posted on 12/16/2024 4:49:14 PM PST by montag813
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To: Macho MAGA Man

California Bullet Train stupidity on steroids


6 posted on 12/16/2024 4:49:22 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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Hey, what could go wrong?


7 posted on 12/16/2024 4:50:08 PM PST by ArtDodger
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No thanks....I’m really OK with a 5 hour airplane ride instead...


8 posted on 12/16/2024 4:50:21 PM PST by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Only if it’s a one-way tunnel. We don’t want those Muslims who’ve invaded England traveling in our direction. No way!


10 posted on 12/16/2024 4:50:51 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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Sounds like an Irwin Allen movie


11 posted on 12/16/2024 4:51:00 PM PST by butlerweave
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Musk should use you as a consultant.


13 posted on 12/16/2024 4:51:07 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I wouldn’t take that trip even if it were free.


14 posted on 12/16/2024 4:51:56 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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From New York to Londonistan?


16 posted on 12/16/2024 4:52:39 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Read the whole thing...The only input Musk gave was that he could do it for less.

But he said zip about anything else...

17 posted on 12/16/2024 4:53:27 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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54 minutes....so I suppose no lunch...


18 posted on 12/16/2024 4:54:12 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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Yep, there is this little thing called the Mid-Atlantic Rift.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Mid-Atlantic-Ridge

Thermal vents, upwelling magma, and the Atlantic Basin is widening at an estimated rate of 1 to 10 cm (0.5 to 4 inches) a year.

So, is this tunnel going to be stretchy?


20 posted on 12/16/2024 4:55:01 PM PST by Pontiac (esse welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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My first thought was that this tunnel would collapse upon the first earthquake. It’s also very unnecessary because cargo is more efficiently shipped on a cargo ship, which can take tens of thousands or C-cans at once and flight is the most efficient way to travel the globe for a passenger.

It’s just a tunnel to nowhere.


21 posted on 12/16/2024 4:55:11 PM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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LOL!

It'll never happen.

22 posted on 12/16/2024 4:55:27 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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Don’t forget the increased costs fighting the leftists litigation to protect the starfish or something.


23 posted on 12/16/2024 4:56:40 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Sorry, I think I'll wait for a Star Trek transporter to be created.

Besides, why would anyone want to go to Londonistan (or is it now Londongrad, under Comrade Starmer)?

26 posted on 12/16/2024 4:57:26 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam. sic semper tyrannis.)
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Even if technically feasible, why would it be desirable?

Because subways are nicer than airplanes?

28 posted on 12/16/2024 4:58:34 PM PST by Salman (In Hell it is a punishable offense not to call it Heaven.)
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Giant boondoggle. As someone mentioned plate tectonics not to mention structure designed to resist pressure of tons per sq inch but the biggest question is WHY? It has to be the least cost effective project known to man and the most costly. You could build a lot of cargo ships and planes for that ridiculous sum. This crap doesn’t deserve any consideration but does deserve mockery - that having been said there are probably some government apparatchiks that are going to try to divert taxpayer funds to this idiotic idea


30 posted on 12/16/2024 4:59:53 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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