The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by m4rtink on Thursday January 16, 2020 @05:22PM (#22069650)

While we are at it, I really recommend checking out all the base tunnel projects currently in progress or recently completed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_tunnel

Massively cool cutting edge technology, even before Elon involvement. ;-)

There is also a huge amount of interesting videos on Youtube about these projects, all the way from the initial tunnel boring/blasting all the way to final outfitting (imagine installing rails & electric equipment in a 57 km long tunnel - no wonder it took 6 years of multi shift daily work, etc.).

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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday January 16, 2020 @07:33PM (#22070646)

All very impressive. But most impressive to me is this:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikan_Tunnel

>>A 2002 report by Michitsugu Ikuma described, for the undersea section, that "the tunnel structure appears to remain in a good condition." The amount of inflow has been decreasing with time, although it "increases right after a large earthquake".

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