The American Billionaire Elon Musk predicted a science fiction future, with underground tunnels, ultra-fast rockets and even aliens. That’s what she said during a side meeting to the G20 in Baliwhere he appeared in a traditional Indonesian T-shirt, on a darkened stage with burning candles.
Musk explained that SpaceX and Boring Company will build the rockets and mobility tunnels of the future. The businessman’s idea about the construction of tunnels became known in December 2016, when he commented on Twitter: “The traffic is driving me crazy. I will build a tunneling machine and start digging…” This is how Hyperloop came to be.
At the meeting in Bali, Musk appeared as a ghostly image, with only his face and hands dimly lit and reddish in color. “We had a power outage three minutes before the call. So I am completely in the dark,” he told the Indonesian businessman and moderator, Anindya Bakrie.
The billionaire was not physically at the meeting and when asked why, the new owner of Twitter joked that his “volume of work has increased quite a bit recently” due to the purchase of the social network, although he did not comment much on it.
Instead, the billionaire focused on his vision of the future. “We may find alien civilizations or discover civilizations that existed millions of years ago”, he indicated.
The also owner of Tesla and SpaceX defended that the mobility of the future went through the electric car and a network of tunnels to decongest traffic. But he mentioned that the tunnels have advantages over flying cars, stressing that these would “fall on heads” and be detrimental to the privacy of those below.
On the other hand, he showed interest in building rocket launch pads all over the world, so people can travel at twenty times the speed of sound. “I think this would really open up the world, if you could travel anywhere in less than an hour“said the businessman.
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the tunnels
Despite Musk’s enthusiasm, reports have recently surfaced that The Boring Companythe company that builds the underground tunnels, would be suffering a setback, reports Bloomberg.
The inaugural sci-fi Hyperloop tunnel, built in Hawthorne, California, has been demolished and will be replaced with parking spaces for SpaceX employees. The Hyperloop tunnel prototype, approximately 1.6 kilometers long and 3.6 meters widewas located near the Hawthorne Municipal Airport, on the outskirts of Los Angeles.
Precision Construction Services was one of the tunnel contractors, it says Bloomberg, and received news earlier this year that the tunnel would soon be converted into a parking garage. The story, according to Bloomberg, would have been confirmed by the Hawthorne city council.
The Boring Company, which according to company information is valued at $5.675 million, opened in February 2017, with a test excavation at the SpaceX facility.
In any case, according to Bloomberg, the demolition of the California tunnel would not be an abandonment of the project. Musk is reportedly taking steps to move some of his core operations to Texas. At the beginning of 2022, my san antonio He reported that Musk raised hundreds of millions of dollars in investment to establish a new Boring Company headquarters in the Austin suburb of Pflugerville. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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