[Eupalinos of Megara appears out of a time portal from ancient Ionia] Wow, you guys must be really good at digging tunnels by now, right?
God I hate Elon Musk. What a fucking twat.
He is. Did you see the crap he posted on Twitter about the Baltimore bridge? Fucking dumbass.
Edit: found the screen cap:
The repair should be put to commercial bid with a massive incentive for early and safe completion.
Fast, safe, cheap: pick two.
Yeah, let’s reuse steel that has been weakened by unknown amounts and rebuild the bridge with the exact same flaws that caused it to be vulnerable to this type of collision.
This is major RTS gamer brain. In those games, the scarce resources are the raw materials, because it’s more dramatic to send your harvesters into the unknown to be attacked by enemies, while the actual knowhow on how to build stuff is passively “researched”. So if you need to build a bridge, you magically have the planners and the engineeers and the building crew ready and waiting, but they need steel and stone to start, which you never have, because you just panic-built a bunker to defend your base.
In the real world, getting enough steel to build a bridge is easy enough - I imagine the lead time to be a couple months. Actually finding a team able to plan and construct one is another matter.
“Fuck Elon Musk!”
“I would advise against that. His tunnel has been found to have skin-burning chemical sludge in it. Good way to lose your penis.”
Really taking that saturday morning cartoon super villain act to a new level.
Oh we’re good at digging tunnels. No one bothered to mention human safety though. That’s a different skill set we haven’t come close to mastering.
The agency ultimately fined Boring more than $112,000 over eight violations it deemed “serious.” The company is, as Musk businesses are wont to do, contesting it.
We’ve gone from wrist slaps to someone blowing gently in your face.