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Nashville Is a ‘Tough Place to Tunnel.’ Musk Is Digging Anyway.  The New York Times Elon Musk’s company just promised to save Nashville’s traffic problems. We’ve heard this story before  CNN Rep. Justin Jones denied entry into Music City Loop announcement event  WSMV Elon Musk’s plan to build Boring Co. tunnels in Nashville sparks partisan feud  CNBC Metro councilmembers raise concerns over proposed “Music …

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has announced plans to dig tunnels under Nashville, creating a loop that will connect the city’s downtown with the Nashville International Airport. The Boring Company says it will begin construction “immediately” following approval and expects the first 10-mile phase to be operational as early as next year, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee …

The Boring Company, a tunnel construction firm owned by Elon Musk, is planning to build an underground tunnel between Nashville’s airport and downtown.  In what Gov. Bill Lee described as a public-private partnership in which the company will cover the entire construction bill, the Boring Company claims it will build a loop between BNA and an unspecified downtown destination that …

Century-Old Quantum Mystery Solved: Scientists Finally See Inside the Electron’s “Tunnel”  SciTechDaily Source link

The vision sounds irresistible: step onto a train in New York, and emerge 54 minutes later in London, having traveled through a tunnel beneath the Atlantic Ocean. This kind of travel is described in some recent proposals. But is a trans-Atlantic tunnel really possible or the stuff of science fiction? The short answer: It’s probably not possible with current technology. …

NASA Blasts X-59 Quiet Supersonic Mini Jet to Mach 1.4 in Tokyo Tunnel  SciTechDaily X-59 Model Tested in Japanese Supersonic Wind Tunnel  NASA (.gov) In conversation with Kalea Texeira, National Training Program Manager at Federal Aviation Administration  alcircle NASA X-59 proves shockwave suppression for quiet supersonic flight in Mach 1.4 tests  Aerospace Global News Tiny Version of NASA Jet That’ll Go Supersonic With No …

Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic wind tunnel located in Chofu, Japan, to assess the noise audible underneath the aircraft.  The test was an important milestone for NASA’s one-of-a-kind X-59, which is designed to fly faster than the speed of sound without causing …