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I once read someone claiming that a paper study was done on the feasibility of drilling a small tunnel directly through the crust between Chicago and New York i
by api 3y ago
I once read someone claiming that a paper study was done on the feasibility of drilling a small tunnel directly through the crust between Chicago and New York in a straight line to create an evacuated tunnel like a miniature hyperloop for light speed (in a vacuum) line of sight laser communication.
I think the proposed technique was laser or microwave vaporization tunneling at a small diameter.
Something tells me it was too expensive.
HFT is psychotic.
- BSEdlMMldESB 3y agoI think HFT (i'm assuming high frequency trading) 'owns' all electricity
- sonicshadow 3y agoCan you imagine explaining something like that to an alien civilization
- midoridensha 3y ago"You spent your limited resources and focused your technology on building this? Are you crazy?"
- sbierwagen 3y agoI mean, the market price in a major commodity like wheat or oil is the aggregate desires of 7.8 billion people. Move it a micropenny in either direction and it'll affect man-centuries of work. Market makers reduce the bid-ask spread of a commodity, which is good! Narrowing the spread of the prices of a commodity doesn't have any immediate physical effect, but if you start wiping out billion dollar projects based on that, then that's the most office buildings, the ISS and LHC, the entire software industry...