Take a Tesla to the beach… or the game.
Sounds like weapons-grade balonium.
Elon Musk rarely has his brain properly engaged when he starts operating his tongue. Subways in Miami are not the smartest move.
Maybe there are some naturally occurring tunnels there just waiting to “open”.
Yup, below both the water table and sea level, mostly former swamp land where the tunnel would be prone to settling at different rates for different sections and highly prone to flooding during a hurricane without some kind of massive pumping system. Would be rather large operating and maintence financial deficits me thinks.
Somewhere they will find a sucker. Who said one is born every day? Better still will they find a local person will make the location a sucker?
I drive through what is advertised as the Southernmost Tunnel in the USA every time I compete at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The tunnel is underneath turn NASCAR 3 and allows entrance to the infield section of speedway. The tunnel floods during periods of ‘Florida Frog Drowning’ thunderstorms.
I feature the level of the water table in the entirety of the Florida peninsula would prohibit serious underground tunneling.
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Musk is no fool.
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It appears that Miami people don’t see all the obstacles the out-of-the-area experts on here do. I wonder why?
Look, in a world that is full of the burgeoning NFT revolution, where investment bankers pony up a $50M tranche for people making containers into structural elements of autonomous railcars… this idea is genius! Just like a century ago, when the first Florida boom to increase real-estate value by separating the marks from the moolah was on. What’s a little submerged-at-high-tide or potential companion-reptile training in our can-do go-go '20s?
I was going to be sarcastic and say ‘he could always do what we do in the Panhandle and raise his tunnels up on stilts’ until I remembered the rest of the Hyperloop hype…
I see him as more of what used to be called a “wayward genius,” but for the time being he should be paying more attention to the serious quality-control issues with his car line than any other projects.
Perhaps close minded and overly confident is a better description.
His philosophy on intelligent life in the galaxy: It does not exist, otherwise he or someone else would have seen it before now. I find that statement to sound overly common sense but also at the same time overly dismissive of the various theories some of them viable as to why that has not yet happened.
Refuses to discuss unproven but hypothetical theories.
Most of his “futuristic” designs and innovations are for the most part recycle from the past including his tube transport system.
Lets also not forget the exaggerations he made publicly that nearly got him in trouble with the SEC.
Meet the Bridge to Nowhere (one example of many in the United States).
Way to much credit being given there. He is no more a genius than Bill Gates. I would refer to him as an innovator that can spot uses for existing technology that other people do not see. As far as inventing anything? Have not seen any breakthroughs from Elon Musk or Bill Gates yet.
I think Musk’s ability is more on finding/choosing/inspiring the right people than the nitty gritty of innovation. His employees have figured out how to dramatically reduce the cost of getting stuff into space, by emphasizing cost over performance. He also is in favor of a build something rapidly, see where it breaks, re-design, build and repeat. The “Starship” reminds me of Truax’s Sea Dragon proposal from the early 60’s, though the Sea Dragon had one HUGE engine.
Tesla’s (the car company) big technical innovations were in reducing the size, cost and weight of the electric propulsion system and battery packs. (Using EV components, the BOM for re-motoring a PCC car might be $50k…) Tesla’s major failing was being overly on autonomous driving, with several fatalities on record.
Musk comes across more like Steve Jobs than Bill Gates.
Wait and see.
Where he impressed me was when he started returning booster rockets to their launch sites and landing them upright. And I think he was ahead of the curve in pushing power grid load battery plants. If wind and solar are going to be our salvation, they are essential. Otherwise he is one great huckster.
An interesting and worthwhile read/listen…
https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future/dp/006230125X
I think he means the bridge between Miami Lakes and Hialeah… the one that was supposed to get the SOS gates that would open when they ‘heard’ sirens.
Space program is in serious need of genious which seems to be missing entirely. Very disappointed with their proposed interstellar ship which just looks like a larger sized Apollo 11, still rocket powered. No new power plant? No research into gravity manipulation? Anti-matter power? Where is all the money being spent on research going? Was Einstien correct with all his gravitational theories or do some need revisement?
Most of the Astrophysical videos I come across on YouTube tend to say that Einstien’s theories are being proven correct. Of course, we only know what we know and we have yet to find out all the things we don’t know. We will never know all that we don’t know as everything you learn creates 10 more questions about what you don’t know.
Channeling Donald Rumsfeld?