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What does the boring company make? I saw bits of it as a bit of a joke... ? Is it Musk's approach of making a traditional company and flipping it on its head?
by keyle 9y ago
What does the boring company make? I saw bits of it as a bit of a joke... ?
Is it Musk's approach of making a traditional company and flipping it on its head?
- aerovistae 9y agothey make tunnels and outfit them for various modes of transportation. it's not a joke. i can't imagine any better way to make it clear that something isn't a joke than to put $100 million into it.
- dx034 9y agoIs $100m really enough to build a state of the art boring machine and get all equipment/labour to actually build a tunnel?
- aerovistae 9y agoI have no idea what $100m is enough for, all I know is that Elon Musk gets more done per dollar than anyone else alive.
- AsyncAwait 9y agoReally? Care to give some examples?
- aerovistae 9y agoYes, SpaceX and Tesla.
- AsyncAwait 9y agoYou said words, but there's no substance, how does SpaceX and Tesla in any way prove that "Elon Musk gets more done per dollar than anyone else alive" exactly?
- nickik 9y agoEnough to get started and enough to get more money eventually. Its a market, lets see how it gone go.
- vegardx 9y agoThat's just shy of the cost of building (drilling?) the longest road tunnel in the world, in Norway, which has really high labour costs. So I'd guess it goes a long way (pun intended). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lærdal_Tunnel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lærdal_Tunnel
- djrogers 9y agoWell, they take dirt and turn it in to a big, long, nothing. AKA a tunnel.
- DoreenMichele 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_(earth) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_(earth) The company name is somewhat tongue in cheek, but also apparently straight up literal in some sense.