Elon’s bomb shelter.
Will the tunnel be QUAKE PROOF?
YAWN
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.
At last we’ll know who to blame when the graboids rampage.
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?...............
I moved to So Calif in Feb 1964. I left So Calif in May of 1993. I lived thru the 1971quake. I rented my house for 2 more years, and it was in the 1994 quake. Luckily, minimal damage both times.
However, I can still vividly describe the 1971 quake hitting just as I was getting off the toilet, and getting ready to go to work. That house moved UP & DOWN-—Left & right—a good 2 + feet. It was daylight, and I certainly was wide awake. Friend’s house had every single dish thrown out of cupboards & the entire swimming pool emptied-—right thru his house, as both the back door & the front door were shaken open. He was trying to get his kids out of their bunk beds with water swirling around his legs. The VA hospital pancaked..and another hospital had one wing topple down, along with long term damage to the sewer systems in Sylmar.
I wouldn’t even ride in anything underground in So Cal. I seriously would tell Musk-—DO NOT DO THIS.
Reminds me of either it was HG Wells or Jules Vernes novels of a boring machine drilling to the Center of the Earth.
Or the one with Doug McClure, and they find and underground world of brain washing pteradactyls.
44 foot below roads and utilities sounds like 50 deep to me. The test tunnel they just finished was “30 foot wide” which could mean if the tunnel was constant radius, it could have a cover depth of 20’ to 50’ since the article is so imprecise.
A cover depth of 50’ for a 30’ wide tunnel is very modest unless tunnel is lined and reinforced.
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Musk is the greatest moocher of our time. Govts line up to throw money at him.
A friend who follows tech closely noted, he is the unofficial R & D outsource team. And yes, he meets w/ the players in the industries he works within ( aka the auto industry ).