@elonmusk: Join tunneling – the underground movement
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Elon Musk promotes The Boring Company, explaining that people thought it was a joke but they made it a company, based on simple physics and geometry for urban transportation.
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Join tunneling – the underground movement
X Freeze (@XFreeze): Elon Musk on why tunnels became reality:
“Everyone thought it was a joke. We made it a company”
The idea behind The Boring Company is actually simple physics and geometry:
Cities are becoming vertically 3D with massive skyscrapers and dense urban centers, yet transportation
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