Midjourney prompt: Tunneling

Why Tunnels Could Build Tomorrow’s Cities

The history and future of underground infrastructure

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@sa.morrison almost 2 years ago

ENvironmental concerns? The bit about UK was interesting - I am from there and Crossrail has destroyed vast pasts of teh country and has recently been halted because of its cost. I think there could have been a little more criticality would have made this more robust.

@audrey.jamieson.m almost 2 years ago

I appreciate learning about the basic processes of boring so that we can better understand the possibilities and current limitations of this technology. This article brought me back to a quote I've been thinking about a lot: "These are engineering problems. And we are engineers." If we can isolate obstacles, then we can propose solutions to those obstacles, instead of writing off an idea entirely because it contains obstacles.

I recently travelled to Europe for the first time and everywhere I went, I was so impressed by the robust public transportation systems, a lot of which is underground. It made me question how we could possibly get infrastructure like that in Western Canada, where our cities have been designed, built, and expanded to accommodate more and more cars. Perhaps underground boring is part of the answer.

@mark.labenski almost 2 years ago

"He learned that boring machines were the problem because they were slow at their job and expensive to build and operate" That's not at all the problem. This article is informative with the historic part and totally garbage considering taking every word from our beloved Space Karen for granted whilst Elmo showed us he was lying in every regard. The Article doesn't even mention the ridiculously ineffecient and expensive tunnel in Las Vegas, that the Boring Company Build where a single Bus traveling the normal roads is more effective by a margin.

Margaret Sommers almost 2 years ago

I am so tired of articles starting off about and going into anything about Elon Musk

@george.agg almost 2 years ago

Watch other technologies around us and try them to better another,...like how about the DEW applied as a 'drill bit' . Laser cutting can also cut the round shape first for a meter or so and then that meter thick 'disc' can be shatterred with high frequencies..?..