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#1 2018-06-16 12:52:37
- louis
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Musk is Boring...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSowW0rjRpM
Musk's Boring Company is going to create a 100 MPH mass transit system in three years to serve Chicago's airport.
Of course, Boring technology could be v. v. useful on Mars.
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#2 2018-06-16 13:31:31
- SpaceNut
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Re: Musk is Boring...
The same thing being used to construct the hyperloop transport system aka a sled for the car to ride on that is electrical to reduce smog pollutents....
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#3 2020-12-20 18:58:34
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Re: Musk is Boring...
Reviving the tool (the Boring Machine) to make mars habitat possible. as some are questioning building 3d buildings.
NasaSpaceFlight Topic: SpaceX's Martian Underground
more tunnel vehicles in the topic and they are heavy.....
Reddit topic SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell has confirmed that The Boring Company has Mars applications
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#4 2024-03-21 17:24:34
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Re: Musk is Boring...
HS2 hails ‘remarkable achievement’ as it completes excavation of longest tunnel
Excavation of HS2’s longest tunnel has been completed after a second machine reached the end of its 10-mile journey under the Chiltern Hills.
The machine, named Cecilia, broke through on Thursday at a site near South Heath, Buckinghamshire.
It was one of two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) digging a twin-bore tunnel with a depth of up to 80 metres that will be used for HS2 trains travelling between London and Birmingham.
They excavated the tunnel, lining it with 112,000 pre-cast concrete wall segments and grouting them into position, moving forward at an average speed of 16 metres per day.
“Cecilia’s arrival completes excavation of HS2’s 10-mile twin-bore tunnel, but it’s only the end of the first chapter in the story of building Britain’s high-speed railway under the Chiltern Hills.
The TBMs, which each have a diameter of 10.25 metres, were manufactured in Germany by specialist company Herrenknecht.
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