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Codeine

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17. That article doesn't say anything about 700mph.

Reply to CK_John (Reply #15)

Thu Jun 14, 2018, 02:50 PM

Jun 2018

Tests have been run at just under 200moh, and the projection is a half hour from DC to NYC. That’s around 450mph, which Would be a world record, and still well short of your claim.

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Elon Musk's Boring Company has completed the first 'segment' of a tunnel in LA [View all] CK_John Jun 2018 OP

How does nobody know where or how much? Lee-Lee Jun 2018 #1

There was a vote yesterday to split Caliform into 3 states CK_John Jun 2018 #2

Not sure what that has to do with the subject at hand Lee-Lee Jun 2018 #3

Voted to put on Nov 6, ballot. CK_John Jun 2018 #5

It wasn't voted to be put on the ballot Blue_Adept Jun 2018 #8

We don't "vote" to put things on a ballot. Codeine Jun 2018 #10

Proof-of-concept constructs are rarely hype. LanternWaste Jun 2018 #16

I'm not using any tunnel in the Los Angeles area. MineralMan Jun 2018 #4

It will go faster than earthquakes. CK_John Jun 2018 #6

Very doubtful, I think. MineralMan Jun 2018 #7

That statement makes less than zero sense. nt Codeine Jun 2018 #11

Depends.... A HERETIC I AM Jun 2018 #20

Another thing about LA. Blue_true Jun 2018 #14

...and today he's getting a contract to build HS transit from Chicago to O'Hare. brooklynite Jun 2018 #9

Its 700mph from NYC to Wash DC. CK_John Jun 2018 #12

No high speed rail even gets close to that speed. Codeine Jun 2018 #13