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Elon Musk’s Tunnel: It Doesn’t Scale, So It Doesn’t Matter
- api 8y agoThis is shocking awful. Of course the tunnel is small. It's a demo/test tunnel. This is like arguing in 2007 that SpaceX is a dead end because the Falcon 1 is a small rocket.
- eesmith 8y agoCould you explain what the tunnel demos or tests? We know how to make small tunnels. We know how to route cars through tunnels. As a demonstration project, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1 says: > According to SpaceX, the Falcon 1 was designed to minimize price per launch for low-Earth-orbit satellites, increase reliability, and optimize flight environment and time to launch.[14] It also was used to verify components and structural design concepts that would be reused in the Falcon 9. By the metric of "demo/test" rocket, it was successful. What is there comparable which we can use to judge the effectiveness of this demo/test tunnel?
- Piskvorrr 8y agoNope, "small tunnel" is not an accidental property, it was a core part of the proposal ("big tunnels have big problems, are expensive, this is different.")