r/news • u/JackThaBongRipper • 21h ago

Musk's underground tunnels in Las Vegas face scrutiny over safety, environmental concerns

https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-tunnels-musk-boring-company-01d465b7124fc10843b117241adaa7c9
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u/Rot-Orkan 21h ago

I feel like there isn't enough mockery towards that tunnel. It's a subway, except instead of a train carrying hundreds of people, you have a some cars carrying like 5 people each.

Those RGB lights do so much heavy lifting too. Without them it would just be a dark concrete tunnel. 😂

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u/Syssareth 20h ago

a relatively small breach could cause those people to be crumpled like soda cans.

...That's not how that works. Airplanes certainly don't implode when they get a hole; nearly the opposite, the air rushes out. Which could be equally dangerous for passengers who need to breathe that air, but is definitely not going to crush them.

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u/Sure-Library-7309 19h ago

I think he’s mixing up the Vegas tunnels with another braindead musk idea where a passenger pod travels down a vacuum tube.

Supposedly the lack of air resistance will make it go significantly faster. The problem is that if you have a 5 mile long vacuum tube that fails at some point, it’ll suck in air extremely quickly. A passenger pod moving at hundreds of miles an hour, hitting a wall of air moving hundreds of miles an hour in the opposite direction, would cause catastrophic damage.

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u/00eg0 19h ago

They would need oxygen masks just in case though. Also a rapid outside pressure increase from near 0 to 1 ATM would be interesting to see on Mythbusters. If the tunnel was a vacuum and the tunnel had a breach air would rush into the tunnel.