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So the contract with the convention center is split in 3 - Boring gets paid 1/3 for completion of the tunnels, 1/3 for completion of stations and the last 1/3 is for demonstrating they can move 4400 people/hour. Fire codes only allows 800 people/hour in a given station though. They also have to move a certain number of people at events or pay a 300k fine per event up to 4,5 million. So lots of entertainment to come.
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Owling Howl posted:So the contract with the convention center is split in 3 - Boring gets paid 1/3 for completion of the tunnels, 1/3 for completion of stations and the last 1/3 is for demonstrating they can move 4400 people/hour. Fire codes only allows 800 people/hour in a given station though. They also have to move a certain number of people at events or pay a 300k fine per event up to 4,5 million. Lots of anger as he just gets paid in full with zero consequences.
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Moving 37 passengers per minute with cars that hold a maximum of three people (& driver), require longer dwell time for people to get in and out compared to trains (because cars, and especially when passengers carry bags etc. like is usual during conventions) and fire code restrictions on the amount of people allowed in stations doesn't really seem doable. If they manage it, that's not going to be typical throughput but some highly orchestrated operation. Fame Douglas has issued a correction as of 20:10 on Apr 9, 2021 |
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Apr 9, 2021 20:07
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Fame Douglas posted:If they manage it, that's not going to be typical throughput but some highly orchestrated operation.
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Apr 9, 2021 20:24
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wonder how much vomit and cum will be over all those Telsas after a week of use
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Bideo James posted:wonder how much vomit and cum will be over all those Telsas after a week of use is that a challenge
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FAUXTON posted:is that a challenge Hunter S Thompson stepping out of a Tesla in the 2022 reboot of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas He comments about Elon Musk accomplishing Time-Travel in a drug addled rant while walking down the ramp to the Tesla loop.
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Apr 9, 2021 20:50
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Bideo James posted:hahaha its all fake It looks like a commercial for one of those toys where it claimed you could move a ball thru an obstacle course with your mind. Even reading the fluffy description they put out it boils down to the chip detects brain activity and the pong paddle/dot moves where it needs to go because the programming assumes that’s what the monkey wants and I’ve even skeptical it’s even able to do that.
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Dr. VooDoo posted:It looks like a commercial for one of those toys where it claimed you could move a ball thru an obstacle course with your mind. Even reading the fluffy description they put out it boils down to the chip detects brain activity and the pong paddle/dot moves where it needs to go because the programming assumes that’s what the monkey wants and I’ve even skeptical it’s even able to do that. yeah its an amazing video of a monkey being fed through a tube also using a controller that pushes food through the tube while a video plays in front of it entrancing its eyes while it eats.
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Admiral Ray posted:I've seen videos about perpetual motion machines done better than this. Instagram food hoaxes are done better than this
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Apr 9, 2021 21:41
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Can a cybertruck even fit down that tunnel?
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If they made it so that teslas can do spirals in those tunnels that would make it instantly cool, instead of lame taxi in tube.
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Bideo James posted:Hunter S Thompson stepping out of a Tesla in the 2022 reboot of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas good lord imagine him letting loose on musk, presumably the embodiment of everything he hated in a person
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Shifty Pony posted:a lazy river transit system sounds pretty cool tbqh. lmao those things are the most amazingly gruesome death traps, or am I thinking of the fast rapids-type ones. Probably it's both.
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Myron Baloney posted:lmao those things are the most amazingly gruesome death traps, or am I thinking of the fast rapids-type ones. Probably it's both. You're probably thinking of the rapids ones where you're in a huge rigid raft full of volvo seats. Lazy river is like a walking-speed current with no underwater obstacles so it stays nice and flat, and you just float along in it. It's pretty low risk of drowning because it's only about 4 feet deep but if you start getting vegas levels of inebriation all bets are off gently caress imagine being the guy who drowned in a vegas lazy river loop on the strip, your dead rear end would probably be scooting along the bottom for hours before anyone noticed
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Myron Baloney posted:lmao those things are the most amazingly gruesome death traps, or am I thinking of the fast rapids-type ones. Probably it's both. the rapids ones are the ones that grind people up if you fall out. Lazy rivers are probably the safest thing at a water park.
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I've been inspired by the radical idea of making tunnels less expensive by just building smaller ones and come up with buildings but smaller. Instead of a 10 story building my company will build a 5 story one for half the price. Please don't steal my disruption idea
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FAUXTON posted:good lord imagine him letting loose on musk, presumably the embodiment of everything he hated in a person i can't say he made the wrong choice, but good lord what i would give to see his takes in 2021
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Guze posted:I've been inspired by the radical idea of making tunnels less expensive by just building smaller ones and come up with buildings but smaller. Instead of a 10 story building my company will build a 5 story one for half the price. *1/2 the price, not counting anything except material costs for the superstructure
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infernal machines posted:i can't say he made the wrong choice, but good lord what i would give to see his takes in 2021 HST missed out on some fantastic content by leaving when he did. total n00b move
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YOLOsubmarine posted:the rapids ones are the ones that grind people up if you fall out. Lazy rivers are probably the safest thing at a water park. I have a friend/ex who is terrified of water cause she almost downed in a lazy river somehow.
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Spergin Morlock posted:HST missed out on some fantastic content by leaving when he did. total n00b move imagine seeing george w bush and deciding to check out during the cartoon film reel before the main feature Desert Bus posted:I have a friend/ex who is terrified of water cause she almost downed in a lazy river somehow. that's actually an excellent reason to be terrified of water
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Desert Bus posted:I have a friend/ex who is terrified of water cause she almost downed in a lazy river somehow. penguin exhibit...
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There was a stuck post here e: It wasn't worth it
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FAUXTON posted:good lord imagine him letting loose on musk, presumably the embodiment of everything he hated in a person 
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Tesla Las Vegas: Wow! What a Ride!
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Owling Howl posted:So the contract with the convention center is split in 3 - Boring gets paid 1/3 for completion of the tunnels, 1/3 for completion of stations and the last 1/3 is for demonstrating they can move 4400 people/hour. Fire codes only allows 800 people/hour in a given station though. They also have to move a certain number of people at events or pay a 300k fine per event up to 4,5 million. 
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losing 33% on the contract and then getting hit for another nearly 10% on the total potential value would be incredible, and yet somehow i have my doubts about enforcement of those penalties
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The Hangover but the guy they’re looking for is stuck in a broken Tesla in the tunnel
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The Hangover but they're stuck with the tiger in a tesla in the tunnel
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I feel like every year since HST shot himself would have just made him more likely to shoot himself
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Owling Howl posted:https://twitter.com/jgillanNews3LV/status/1380331748697907201?s=19 Eyyyy look at me, i'm a big brain smarty that just increased the throughput of the loop my a factor of 10! 
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Party Boat posted:I feel like every year since HST shot himself would have just made him more likely to shoot himself This is also how I'm starting to think.
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Party Boat posted:I feel like every year since HST shot himself would have just made him more likely to shoot himself yeah
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The Venetian has a river that runs through the whole thing Venice style and I'm not aware of anyone drowning in it. I really wish Vegas had some decent mass transportation systems. I have no problem walking up and down the strip even if it takes awhile, but when I need to get anywhere off-strip I have to Uber and that basically then involves finding the designated ride share area which probably has you having to go to the proper casino and work your way through the maze to get to the designated area in the parking lot. And at the end of the day triple checking all your ride summaries because the drivers there almost all slam the I'M HERE button as soon as they get within eye sight of the casino and then spend 10-15 minutes working their way to you so they are almost guaranteed to have hit you with a "you were late" charge without letting you know. Also you only get Uber credit back for contesting that charge, not an actual refund. plz just give me a monorail or something plz
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Captain Hotbutt posted:https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1380568690693902339 I like how it's trained to suck on a robot penis at the same time.
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Owling Howl posted:So the contract with the convention center is split in 3 - Boring gets paid 1/3 for completion of the tunnels, 1/3 for completion of stations and the last 1/3 is for demonstrating they can move 4400 people/hour. Fire codes only allows 800 people/hour in a given station though. They also have to move a certain number of people at events or pay a 300k fine per event up to 4,5 million. also the monorail was a better idea than the bazinga tunnels
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Fame Douglas posted:Las Vegas could expand their equally stupid monorail to at least service the airport. The construction costs on that thing is enormously expensive. They approved an expansion leg to the football stadium but there is no financial will for it. Musk's Tunnel is stupid, but he's offering a cheap way to tunnel through the caliche that has made this town a non-starter for underground transportation. The problem is I think he's only willing to do it if he can use it for this laughable Tesla commercial. All Musk extensions confirmed beyond the convention center peoplemover are being paid for entirely by casinos. Like the one going under that golf course is just replacing a shuttle bus that the casino used to occasionally run to the convention center. The Strip is a weird exemption to civic planning policy because it's deliberately not designed to service locals except to feed them in and out of work as quickly as possible, and there is no need to concern about income disparity since everything is built for people abandoning all sense of personal austerity that they might have in any other city. It is functionally no different than a giant mining pit or warehouse of cubicles in that it's not intended to be your habitat for more than a few hours. World War Mammories posted:trying to imagine the type of person who would look at this scale of distance and choose not to walk That stretch of Desert Inn doesn't intersect with the Strip or even have sidewalks. It's a super-arterial that's meant to provide quick access between east and west sides of town by denying you any exits to the big popular tourist destination in the middle of it all. The positive side of this from a transit standpoint is that it makes it a good street for express buses to get residents who don't work in the industry from one side of town to another. Craptacular! has issued a correction as of 00:52 on Apr 10, 2021 |
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