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Ok, that's pretty wild. Can it work on earth too? That seems like a good starting point.
by ameasure 5y ago
Ok, that's pretty wild. Can it work on earth too? That seems like a good starting point.
- credit_guy 5y agoThis was published in 1986. Tunneling with nuclear machines on Earth had been under consideration for decades before [1]. It's not entirely clear why it was abandoned, but most likely something didn't work out in practice like it was supposed to do in theory. [1] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/americas-mad-scientists-wanted-use-nuclear-power-create-tunnels-shocking-way-40072 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/americas-mad-scientis...
- rektide 5y agoi posted Subselene (1986) because the earlier 1973 proposal to do similar on earth (Subterrene) was also submitted recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28559927 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28559927