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Boring Tunnel Almost Ready
The Boring Company has almost completed its first tunnel under Los Angeles; free rides are coming!
(The amazing underground future of transportation)
Older science fiction fans may recall that In the 1958 Disney program Magic Highway USA, an atomic road building machine bores through mountains and melts stone for a perfect road bed. Click the link to see the movie; there is also a bridge road bed-building machine.
(From Magic Highway USA)
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