Some people spent months secretly digging tunnels under the Wall.
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That is pretty small beer where railway tunnels under rivers are concerned.
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Construct tunnels under Los Angeles to alleviate traffic congestion with The Boring Company.
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Meanwhile, Musk's Boring Company recently completed its first section of tunnels under Los Angeles.
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They dig miles-long tunnels under walls and fences, and fire bazookas over them.
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Hurricane Sandy flooded New York's subway in 2012, damaging several tunnels under the East River.
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The current tunnels under the Hudson River were built in 1908 and are rapidly deteriorating.
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The same cannot be said for Hyperloop and the company digging tunnels under our major cities.
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Investigators unearthed a network of tunnels under the prison's bloodstained floors, suggesting the attack was premeditated.
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Explosive welding, for obvious reasons, is usually carried out in tunnels under mountains or in remote deserts.
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The Omega booths are small rooms set up in the subway stations that abut tunnels under rivers.
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Palestinian militant groups have also dug tunnels under the border fence to smuggle weapons, and to launch attacks.
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For almost 40 years, William Lyttle dug a series of interconnected tunnels under his house in London, England.
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"The train slowly moved through the dark tunnels under New York," Fusco recalled in an interview years later.
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Built the railroad tunnels under the East and Hudson Rivers in New York amongst many, many other things.
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At the top of the list is the plan to build new rail tunnels under the Hudson River.
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Smugglers from Mexico will dig tunnels under the wall or use drones to fly their contraband across it.
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Islamic State used Raqqa's schools - like much of the city - for military purposes, digging tunnels under some of them.
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Oh, and he also wants to dig tunnels under LA and fly to Mars and is advising President Trump.
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Penn Station needs to grow, fast, with new passenger rail tunnels under the Hudson River to accommodate booming demand.
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The soldiers have already found a high-ranking ISIS commander hiding in the network of tunnels under Ramadi's streets.
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Recently, Elon has been digging tunnels under LA, sending rockets into space, and sweating over the Tesla Model 3.
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North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test since 2006 in tunnels under the mountains of Punggye-ri on Sept.
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Musk, founder of private space firm SpaceX, also wants to dig tunnels under cities through his new Boring Company.
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The other terminals were doomed when tunnels under the Hudson River and the old Pennsylvania Station opened around 1910.
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Gaza's economy increasingly went underground, becoming more dependent on a network of smuggling tunnels under the border with Egypt.
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For all of those reasons, some homeless people turned to the network of tunnels under the city, especially in winter.
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Amtrak owns Penn Station and much of the rail infrastructure in the region, including the old tunnels under the river.
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Musk founded The Boring Company to build tunnels under Southern California roads as a solution to the area's nightmarish traffic.
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Over the past 25 years, authorities have found 181 narco tunnels under the US-Mexican border, according to The New Yorker.
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The M.T.A. says the L's two tunnels under the East River, flood-ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, need to be overhauled completely.
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His idea is to build a series of tunnels under L.A. with cars ferried around on pods at around 125 mph.
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His idea is to build a series of tunnels under LA with cars ferried around on pods at around 125 mph.
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The tunnel project involves building two single-track tunnels under the Hudson River between Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan and New Jersey.
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Astaldi added that the company was interested in ambitious proposals to connect Argentina and Chile by digging tunnels under the Andes mountains.
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You have the princesses and rollercoasters up top and all the employees and stressed people running around secret tunnels under the park.
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A photo taken April 17 shows a section of tunnels under the Syrian town of Douma that rebels used to avoid government bombs.
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In May, Musk detailed his plans to dig mass transit tunnels under the city of Los Angeles, where the Boring Company is headquartered.
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"I am confident that the Lord is at work here," Pompeo added, noting that he visited the tunnels under Jerusalem during his visit.
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Bulk amounts of drugs, there's the traditional Mexican border type of stuff, like tunnels under the border and that sort of things. Right.
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Musk is now talking about digging tunnels under LA as a way to bypass traffic, though its unclear how serious he is about it.
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Just a handful of the recent finds credited to GPR technology include a labyrinth of tunnels under Rome and man-made caves under Nottingham.
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The existing rail tunnels under the Hudson were in dire condition, and an urgently needed new tunnel was in the final stages of planning.
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Previously, Musk has mentioned talks with LA Mayor Eric Garcetti and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel about his plans to build tunnels under both their cities.
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The two tunnels under the Hudson river, which serve the station and the main NEC arteries, are a century old and move with the tides.
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But what Iraqi soldiers clear by day, Islamic State (IS) fighters often regain by night, thanks to a warren of tunnels under the front lines.
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And as part of his Boring Company venture, Musk is now talking about digging tunnels under LA and Chicago as a way to bypass traffic.
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LeNoir said the tunnel was never fully completed, but it speaks to the ingenuity and brute strength used to dig these tunnels under the border walls.
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Elon Musk's plan to dig tunnels under cities for cars to circumvent traffic is coming to fruition — starting in the SpaceX parking lot in Los Angeles.
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BBC TV has documented the progress of Crossrail, showing the work of thousands of engineers carving the route through the warren of existing tunnels under London.
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One thing is for sure, as The Boring Company digs miles and miles of tunnels under Los Angeles, Musk will certainly have an excess of rock.
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Far-fetched as it may sound, during spells of very cold weather, Amtrak sends a crew into the tunnels under the Hudson River to remove icicles.
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So far the company has been digging tunnels under Los Angeles, which the company says are smaller than traditional tunnels for underground transportation, cutting down on costs.
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Israeli forces say they have been conducting operations against tunnels under the border of Gaza used by militants, and on Thursday discovered a tunnel built by Hamas.
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Cigarettes used to come in only via smuggling tunnels under the Egyptian border but the PA is seeking understandings with Hamas and Cairo to choke off that channel.
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That party was supposed to take place at the Richard Lenoir vaults, the water-filled tunnels under the Place de la Bastille between the fourth and 12th Arrondissements.
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The Boring Co., his other other business which plans to build tunnels under cities to move more cars around, sold $20 million dollars worth of flamethrowers roofing torches.
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Ultimately, Boring Company aims to build a network of tunnels under several U.S. cities that would ferry cars and cargo on sleds, which should alleviate traffic congestion problems.
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During the penultimate episode, the Lannister twins and lovers Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Cersei (Lena Headey) embrace as the tunnels under King's Landing start to collapse around them.
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While clashes continued between small groups of IS fighters in tunnels under the old city for weeks after, the loss of Mosul effectively broke the back of the caliphate.
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The massive plan, dubbed "California WaterFix," involves building twin tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that would bring water to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California.
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Thousands of adult beetles can kill a tree in two to four months as the insects carve S-shaped tunnels under the bark, depriving their host of needed nutrients.
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Cement for building homes, schools and hospitals was diverted to build and reinforce tunnels under the boundary between Gaza and Israel that terrorist groups use to carry out attacks.
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In just the last year, he started Neuralink to merge humans with machine interfaces and launched The Boring Company to dig tunnels under the ground and reduce traffic woes.
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And the agency says it needs to spend $1.4 billion to repair damage to PATH tunnels under the Hudson that filled with saltwater when Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012.
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Brown's plan to channel water for towns, cities and farms through two large tunnels under a fragile delta that is home to endangered fish species was opposed by environmentalists.
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There's been a significant amount of mystery and speculation around Elon Musk's Boring Company—his effort to bore tunnels under LA to bypass traffic—and its possible connection to SpaceX.
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They were right: Officer Blair did not discover them missing until hours after they had made it through the tunnels under the prison and climbed out a manhole to freedom.
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Alarmingly, if we don't act soon to repair the two tunnels under the Hudson River, that same reduction in service our region experienced last week will become a permanent reality.
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But we do expect to, over time, create a network of tunnels under greater L.A. And I think this is really the key to getting around the city very fast.
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Elon Musk, the billionaire brains behind space rockets and driverless cars, has released an image of a cap for "The Boring Company", his latest endeavor to dig tunnels under Los Angeles.
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Just as the Friday commute was starting, an Amtrak car derailed in one of the two single-track tunnels under the Hudson River between Pennsylvania Station and New Jersey, officials said.
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Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, essentially function as tunnels under the aforementioned firewall, connecting to a private network in a country with more internet freedom, like the United States or Japan.
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The tunnels under the Hudson River were built more than 100 years ago, and engineers estimate they will fail within the next decade — a deterioration that was only amplified by Hurricane Sandy.
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For Yorkville residents, who have endured dust, explosions and barricades while workers burrowed tunnels under their feet, and who make long slogs to Lexington Avenue trains, that moment will probably be joyous.
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In doing that, they also dug whole new tunnels under the city and actually transformed commuter rail network into a true regional rail network, which no city in the US has done.
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For beleaguered commuters who ride trains into and out of New York City, the plan to dig new rail tunnels under the Hudson River must, by now, seem like a big tease.
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They warn that movement within and beyond the region would slow to a crawl if one of the two century-old tunnels under the Hudson River had to be closed for repairs.
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They were not directed so much at Hezbollah, Israel's archenemy to the north: Few Israelis were completely surprised at their government's assertion that the group had dug tunnels under the Lebanese border.
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But the answer to his musings over how many people have been hurt driving through these tunnels under the threat of tumbling tiles is none -- at either 40 or 50 miles per hour.
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In a similar vein, Musk started another company in 2016 — The Boring Company, which has a mission to dig a network of tunnels under and around cities for high-speed, no-traffic driving.
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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi in 2013 closed hundreds of tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border, preventing the smuggling of weapons and goods from cows to cars, depriving Hamas of tax income.
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He negotiated cheaper deals with the dealers by promising to deliver the cocaine more quickly, gaining him the nickname El Rápido for his speed in funneling the cocaine through tunnels under the border.
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" Garcetti was referring to Steven Davis, a former SpaceX engineer, who is leading The Boring Company's project digging tunnels under LA. "Who knows whether it will hit or not but isn't it worth trying?
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The Hudson Tunnel Project, the first phase of a larger plan called Gateway, would build two rail tunnels under the Hudson River and allow the reconstruction of the existing rail tunnels while maintaining service.
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In 2016 he launched The Boring Company to dig tunnels under Los Angeles, with the intention of installing a network of electric "sleds" that could move vehicles at speeds of up to 125 mph.
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Ruskin worried that what we now call globalisation was creating a rootless society, prosperous but anomie-ridden, composed of interchangeable human atoms, "circulating here by tunnels under ground, and there by tubes in the air".
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North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Saturday that the dismantlement "ceremony," which will involve blowing up the tunnels under the sprawling complex known as Punggye-ri, could take place as early as May 23.
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Technically, he founded the company in December 2016, but it was during 2017 that we really learned about his ambitions: He wants to dig huge tunnels under the earth to create a patchwork of roadways.
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But former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo just brought praising Musk — the billionaire entrepreneur behind electric cars and solar power solutions, space travel, and ambitions of digging transportation tunnels under cities — to a whole new level.
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Since then, the Boring Company has been selected to build tunnels for Chicago and Washington DC, and has sketched out plans to build a larger network of tunnels under LA, with the aim of reducing congestion.
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Many Brooklyn residents were shocked to hear recently that their commute would become more onerous with the L train tunnels under the East River scheduled to undergo major repairs to fix damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
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Instead of working with the region to fix the problem, in late December the Trump administration backpedaled on one of the big projects planned to address it, a new set of tunnels under the Hudson River.
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FSA rebels in al-Bab said they had found about 15 km (9 miles) of tunnels under the town that had linked its central areas and jihadist headquarter buildings with the town's fringes and battle fronts.
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The $1503 billion plan to build new tunnels under the Hudson River before the old ones give out remains mired in a political standoff between President Trump and Democratic leaders on both sides of the river.
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Musk has consistently said he hates traffic — so much so that he's started another company, the Boring Company, to dig tunnels under LA. The LA group no longer exists, but an archived version of their website, endinggridlock.
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In an attempt to greenify a square in Gaza, one of the world's most densely populated areas, for its rallies, the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, dragged tons of turf through its tunnels under the border with Egypt.
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Since then his fighters have launched hundreds of suicide car bombs, mortar barrages and sniper attacks against the advancing forces, using a network of tunnels under residential areas and using civilians as human shields, Iraqi soldiers say.
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While researching his book "Table Money" in the 1980s, Mr. Breslin spent a lot of time with the so-called sandhogs — the people who dig the tunnels under New York City for trains, water and other purposes.
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Their competitiveness, as old as muskets and three-cornered hats, has ignited disputes about everything from tunnels under the Hudson River to football teams that play in one state but keep the other state in their names.
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The deal comes about a month after Musk unveiled a plan to burrow a high-speed network of "personalized mass transit" tunnels under Los Angeles that he said could be built without disturbance or noise at the surface.
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The floor of the crater collapsed and the lava flowed into a labyrinth of lava tunnels under the mountain, extending under the residential communities around Kilauea, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology said on Monday.
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Jerry Brown moves through his final months in public life, an elusive signature project — the construction of two massive water tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, intended to salvage the state's water supply network — has seemed endangered.
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The Museum will also run tours into the abandoned labyrinth of tunnels under Euston station, Clapham South's deep-level Second World War bunker, as well as the London Underground's former headquarters at 55 Broadway near St James' Park.
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The militants, who have controlled Mosul since they took it over in mid-2014, have hit the advancing soldiers with suicide car bombs, mortar barrages, sniper attacks and ambushes launched through a network of tunnels under residential areas.
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JERUSALEM — Hezbollah has committed "an act of war" by digging tunnels under Israel's border with Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday, calling on the United Nations to halt what he called a "grave violation" of Israel's sovereignty.
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Or until someone like Elon Musk, made fabulously wealthy when PayPal was acquired by eBay in 2002, muscles his way back into your consciousness by, for example, launching rockets into space or burrowing tunnels under major American cities.
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Expanding Penn Station would also not address a major problem in the region's transportation network: the need to replace the aging tunnels under the Hudson River that carry New Jersey Transit, the nation's third-busiest commuter rail system.
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So what about companies like IBM, whose dreams may not be as ambitious as missions to Mars and tunnels under Los Angeles, but have nonetheless told our new naked emperor just how pretty his clothes are at every turn?
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Elon Musk assured Tesla shareholders Tuesday that he's not wasting too much time on his various side projects, which include building tunnels under Los Angeles, ensuring super intelligent artificial intelligence doesn't end humanity, and creating human-machine brain interfaces.
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First there was the hat, then the 'not a flamethrower,' and now Musk has said that the company will produce and sell large, "lifesize" interlocking bricks created using rock collected while the company's boring machines dig out tunnels under the earth.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk promised a cheering crowd on Thursday that his controversial dream of burrowing a high-speed network of "personalized mass transit" tunnels under Los Angeles could be achieved without disturbance or noise at the surface.
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Israel, which regards Hezbollah as the biggest threat on its borders, on Sunday said it had completed efforts to find and destroy tunnels under the frontier that it said the group had dug to infiltrate fighters during a future war.
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Iraqi commanders say progress has been slowed by the fierce defence waged by the jihadists, who they say have used a network of tunnels under the eastern half of the city and exploited more than 1 million civilians as human shields.
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There is the added complication of Gateway, the latest plan for passenger tunnels under the Hudson, which awaits federal funding and will require an expansion of Penn Station along 31st Street, a prospect the Farley project hardly begins to address.
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As one example of this, I'm concerned that a man with the brains and the resources to consider drilling tunnels under LA would do so to make a fancy way of slinging cars around instead of trying to extend the subway system.
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In 2015, a man with a metal detector discovered an exquisitely preserved Roman-era grave in a village north of London, and in 2013, amateur archaeologists uncovered a massive network of tunnels under the Roman emperor Hadrian&aposs villa, in Tivoli, Italy.
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Everyone who buys or has bought a $20 hat for The Boring Company, billionaire tech titan Elon Musk's traffic-busting tunneling venture, will be entered into a contest to win a tour of the tunnels under Los Angeles, according to the man himself.
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For Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor, it may well have come in 2010, before Bridgegate, when he stopped a plan to build new passenger rail tunnels under the Hudson River, connecting to Pennsylvania Station, claiming they cost New Jersey residents too dearly.
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And with the number of commuters using the passenger tunnels under the Hudson expected to double to 100 million a year from 50 million a year after Gateway is finished, even a small surcharge on riders will yield billions to pay for the new station.
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The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a lower-court judge in 2015 erred in finding Amtrak could not claim up to $125 million in coverage for replacing undamaged portions of tunnels under the East and Hudson Rivers in New York City.
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The Palestinians did not release the text of the agreement, and there was no mention of the thorny issues that remain unresolved, such as the fate of the main Hamas militia, or the network of tunnels under Gaza used by fighters and weapons smugglers.
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Likewise, drug smuggling is a real problem, but narcotics have mostly been smuggled in on trucks, cars and airplanes at official ports of entry, or through tunnels under the border, or through the postal system — not by individuals crossing remote parts of the border.
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"Inevitably, somebody&aposs not going to service their car properly and they&aposre going to drop a hubcap and it&aposs going to guillotine somebody," Musk recently said at an event discussing his Boring Company's plans to build car-carrying tunnels under Los Angeles and other cities.
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The Gateway Rail Tunnel project The connection between New Jersey and Penn Station in New York City consists of a pair of aging, 22019-year-old tunnels under the Hudson River, which were already in desperate need of repair before taking additional damage from Superstorm Sandy.
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There is a strong argument that it is a better solution because it provides both two new tunnels under the Hudson and a station extension under West 34th Street rather than 31st Street, giving New Jersey commuters a shorter connection to major West Side subway lines.
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Like much of New York City's urban mythology—such as the Decepticons gang, the tunnels under Alphabet City, or the albino alligators and alligator-sized rats in the sewers—the legendary hand-to-hand combat style seemed to always hover just outside my conscious knowledge, a whisper from an unclear direction.
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Construction of the Hudson Yard tunnels began over four years ago when Amtrak sought to preserve a right of way under the Hudson Yards project to ensure that the railroad would be able to connect the proposed new rail tunnels under the river with the existing track infrastructure at Penn Station.
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Earlier this week I scrolled through my Instagram feed and watched Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — a Boricua like me, with her lips painted red, her hair long and loose, the youngest woman to be elected to the House of Representatives — discovering the "secret" tunnels under the Capitol during new member orientation on the Hill.
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As others have noted, the flourishes of these theories—Satanic rituals performed on child victims by depraved cabals, cryptic symbols signaling dark intent or links to the occult, and secret tunnels under ordinary businesses used to abet villainy—actually connect them to a discrete, centuries-old lineage of satanic, or occultic, panics.
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In the last 10 years, Israel and Hamas have fought three wars proximately caused by rocket fire from Gaza into Israel (2008-09, 2012 and 85033); and even after the 2014 war, which devastated Gaza, Hamas attempted to dig tunnels under the border from which to launch attacks and kill as many Israelis as possible.
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The group had devised a three-pronged strategy to invade and conquer (even if briefly) at least a part of Israel's northern Galilee: building factories in Lebanon that could produce precision-guided missiles, excavating attack tunnels under the Israeli border and setting up a second front on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
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WeSearchr's current Editor's Choice section includes a DNA test on civil rights and writer Shaun King to "see how black he really is;" an expired bounty to hunt for "Satanic pedo tunnels" under DC pizza parlors; and a request to expose alleged infidelity by South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, in retaliation for negative comments about Donald Trump.
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"I was in Las Vegas a few months ago, and I visited people who were homeless, who are living in storm-drainage tunnels under the Las Vegas strip in the shadow of hotels and casinos that are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, where people from around the world are spending so much money on vacations," he said.
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A plan to build a new pair of tunnels under the Hudson River — at a cost of $11 billion — that would serve as a vital commuter rail link between New York and New Jersey has also stalled over a dispute with the Trump administration over how much the federal government and the two states would pay.
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The Capitol was reviewing how do we deal with security issues, and they installed tunnels under the Capitol complex, so you could go through security on one end, whether you were in the House or Senate buildings, and go to the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court without ever even going through another security challenge.
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With the Trump administration showing no signs of endorsing a plan for a second set of rail tunnels under the Hudson River, Amtrak has decided to start repairing the two existing tunnels before one of them fails completely, according to a company official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the plans were still being developed.
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Billionaire Elon Musk is working to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy with his electric car company Tesla; he's building rockets that will one day take people to Mars making humans a multiplanetary species with SpaceX; he's building tunnels under Los Angeles to fight traffic with The Boring Company; and he's working to build a machine-brain interface to connect human brains with computers with Neuralink.
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A Florida man launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to buy shovels for people planning to build tunnels under President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's proposed border wall, according to a local ABC station.
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In a race that features two clear party favorites and a vast field of hopefuls jockeying to distinguish themselves amid voter apathy, Democratic and Republican candidates share some common ground when it comes to infrastructure: They think the Gateway project to build new rail tunnels under the Hudson is vital and say Penn Station and the Port Authority Bus Terminal both need significant overhauls.
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