An EA, then project approval from the EA, tender engineers, seek land procurement/easements, permissions from thousands of people and jurisdiction (cities, counties, conservation/environmental authorities) to tunnel under their land, then have what would likely be multiple engineering firms design it. Design alone…

Ever hear of bedrock? Pretty hard stuff.

Or instead of throwing a sassy little tantrum and deflecting blame onto others because you did not write clearly, just put more thought into what you say. I assume you put your own pants on every morning. You can give handling it like a grownup a shot.

Electric cars were invented around the same time as ICEs got popularized for autos... earlier actually. Alternative energy was around long before Musk. Commercial rockets were already under development by other companies and is not some new concept. Boring machines exist already. None of these things are pipe dreams,…

Hotel New World in Singapore is another one. The building’s designer completely forgot to account for the building’s dead weight, and undersized all the key structural elements. There was little formal review of building plans at the time, so no one double-checked his math. In the end, the surprising thing isn’t…

Not to bright are ya. It’s ok. Not everybody is a special snowflake.

Actually, no, that isn’t that ridiculous. We reused first-stage components from the Shuttle SRBs for many years. Elon’s system is a lot more automated, but he’s also dealing with much smaller rockets. There was never anything technologically improbable about it, the engineering constraints were well understood.

When they did this — successfully, I’ll grant — in Seattle, they had to inject tons and tons of grout to keep buildings on the surface from sinking or tilting. I would hope that a company who planned a much more ambitious tunnel system would have to jump through hoops to prove they’d considered that possibility. And…

You’ll notice that is all a point to point process that all occurs miles from human life (on the landing). Do you think he’d land a rocket on the Convention Center in LA?

I’m sorry but you’re being naive and ridiculous. There’s a reason that those hurdles exist. We’ve seen what happens when proper planning isn’t mandated or followed in major developments. People die.

So you’re saying you don’t think due time and and care should be taken before digging networks of tunnels that could compromise surface integrity of a major city full of millions of people in an earthquake prone area?

Hey now, there’s no reason to bring logic into this.

Yes, just digging a network of tunnels underneath a gigantic city that’s also prone to earthquakes. No need for much oversight there. 

You want to dig tunnels in California under cities with its Earthquakes, Sand and a fuck ton of underground pipes yeap that would take decades to get the review and permitting not to mention all the groups that would fight it with law suits, because they are afraid his tunneling will suck thier homes into giant…

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“fundamental to air travel.” Lift and thrust. Anything else is just comfort.

Your “a gap is a gap” rule is a bit misleading. If I’m leaving a car-length gap, it’s for safety. You cutting in and making the gap 3 inches forces everyone to slow down.

I’m finding that a lot of people on jalopnik don’t know the difference between a lane change and a zipper merge.

Thanks for the nightmares, jackass... :,(

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