There are so many things wrong with this, I don't know where to begin. > "Yet if you could open the airlocks and stare down its length with a telescope, you wo

There are so many things wrong with this, I don't know where to begin. > "Yet if you could open the airlocks and stare down its length with a telescope, you would see airplanes on final approach to Newark Airport, three thousand miles away!" Newark Airport is in a solid southwest heading from Weehawken. Final approach is either from the north, south, or a western heading over Jersey City to Runway 29, still south and slightly west of Weehawken. A tunnel looking east would see skyscrapers in Manhattan. Possibly air traffic from Laguardia, but it's unlikely, especially with pump infrastructure in the way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To reduce drag on the burritos to a minimum, the tunnel must be kept in near-vacuum with powerful pumps. Yet a few paragraphs later, they say "Mail would frequently arrive singed or deformed from the intense heat and pressure." What is it? Vacuum or pressure? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Furthermore, advances in electrical engineering meant that containers would no longer have to be propelled by compressed gas. The burritos already came conveniently wrapped in aluminum foil - it would be trivial to accelerate them with powerful magnets. The power required by these magnets to induce the Lenz effect in a burrito wrapper, let alone propel it, is too high for large-scale applications. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Under our feet are five miles of silt from the Rockies before you even get to the first rock. Not even close to true. Tecumseh Shale, for example, can be found about 100 feet deep in places. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > At the tunnel exit, a final puff of air slows the burritos to a stop and they are placed in insulated bags. These are whisked to a fleet of waiting trucks, which pass through the Holland Tunnel (this time at a more stately thirty-five miles per hour) and then onward to restaurants and cafeterias throughout the five boroughs. Why not the Lincoln Tunnel? It's actually in Weehawken! The traffic through Hoboken and Jersey City to the Holland is insane. Why didn't they just build the tunnel to Manhattan? It's a mile away!