• Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Why build a tunnel when you could just rename a place somewhere closer and pave a road?

    • snek_boi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I don’t think we can. He would use it for financial speculation, fire lay off half of the workers, build a barely useful prototype that cannot withstand a baseball, and charge people for blue marks that they’d use while attempting to travel in the tunnel. Elon’s a rich kid that has wasted his father’s emerald mine money. https://stuyspec.com/article/elon-musk-is-hopelessly-incompetent

    • cheeseburger@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      10,152 Km between Atlanta and Tbilisi, and ChatGPT gave the pseudocode below as an explanation, which I didn’t double check before making this comment!

      
# Coordinates for Atlanta, Georgia, USA
atlanta_coords = (33.7490, -84.3880)

# Coordinates for Tbilisi, Georgia (country)
tbilisi_coords = (41.7151, 44.8271)

# Calculate the straight line distance through the Earth
geopy.distance.great_circle(atlanta_coords, tbilisi_coords).km```
      • Gobbel2000@programming.devEnglish
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        6 months ago

        That’s wrong, it calculates the surface distance not the distance through the earth, while claiming otherwise. From the geopy.distance.great_circle documentation:

        Use spherical geometry to calculate the surface distance between points.

        This would be a correct calculation, using the formula for the chord length from here:

        from math import *

# Coordinates for Atlanta, West Georgia
atlanta_coords = (33.7490, -84.3880)
# Coordinates for Tbilisi, Georgia
tbilisi_coords = (41.7151, 44.8271)

# Convert from degrees to radians
phi = (radians(atlanta_coords[0]), radians(tbilisi_coords[0]))
lambd = (radians(atlanta_coords[1]), radians(tbilisi_coords[1]))

# Spherical law of cosines
central_angle = acos(sin(phi[0]) * sin(phi[1]) + cos(phi[0]) * cos(phi[1]) * cos(lambd[1] - lambd[0]))
chord_length = 2 * sin(central_angle/2)

earth_radius = 6335.439 #km
print(f"Tunnel length: {chord_length * earth_radius:.3f}km")

        A straight tunnel from Atlanta to Tbilisi would be 9060.898km long.

      • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Depends what the great circle function does. But chances are it gives you the arc length between the two points, which would give you the shortest distsnce between them on the surface of the earth.

        If you wanted the distance through the earth you would need to work put the central angle of that arc, then use that to work out the remaining edge of the triangle formed between the two cities and the centre of the earth.

  • Keaipo@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    It goes all the way back to the 20th century nut and peach export conspiracy between the state of MAGAty Taylor Greene and the righteous nation of Georgia. MTG land was worried about having an even larger nut population if these exports were exchanged.

    • Ostrichgrif@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      As someone from twenty minutes south of MTGs district I’d like to point out that nearly every district (minus the one north) touching hers is firmly blue and she only gets elected because every rich and rural town in the area has been gerrymandered to fuck into one district. Certain parts of Georgia are deep red but the only reason she gets elected is fucked up maps.

      • Sotuanduso@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I haven’t looked at the maps, but my gut instinct is that it sounds like blue gerrymandering. Put most of the red in one district so you get a firmer blue hold on the rest.

        • Ostrichgrif@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Well Georgia’s purple now but has been red since the party switch, it’s not democrats making these maps. This last election was the rule, not the exception. Anecdotally the whole region north west of Atlanta is solidly purple, and almost all Republican candidates are moderate. MTG wouldn’t survive in any reasonably drawn district in this region of the state.

          • AutistoMephisto@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            And MTG really won because her Democratic opponent was getting death threats from her initial rabid support base. He actually left Georgia during the 2016 election and his wife divorced him because of the amount of hate mail, death threats, and doxxing he received. Now, she only suffered no consequences because she never publicly called for him to be threatened. It’s easy to win an election when your voter base is so violent that they force your opponent to flee the State for his and his family’s safety.

  • DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    They clearly do not understand the magmatude of such a project.

    It would get so hot that you’d “pop pop!”

  • Nighed@sffa.communityEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I believe it would be a 45 min journey under gravity power only?

    (Assuming frictionless travel in a vacuum…)

    • homesnatch@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      At first I read Gravy Train and I was excited… But then I saw Gravity… but I still want the Gravy.