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The skate will be lowered into a network of tunnels, transport the car under the city.

Musk hopes to bore under major cities around the world.

The 'skates' would work on electric tracks, reaching speeds of upto 130mph.

Dozens of tunnels would allow commuters to simply bypass gridlocked traffic by travelling undergound.

Elon Musk may have dreamt up his latest world-changing technology while stuck in heavy traffic.

In December he tweeted: 'Traffic is driving me nuts.

Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging...'.'It shall be called ''The Boring Company',' he added.

Musk even proposed a suggested slogan for the company: 'Boring, it's what we do.

'The idea might seem like a joke, but Musk ended his series of tweets with 'I am actually going to do this'.

Inside the tunnels, Musk said cars could travel as fast as 200 kilometers per hour (roughly 130 MPH) according to Axois.

'You should be able to go from say Westwood to LAX in 5-6 minutes,' the Tesla and SpaceX founder said.

He admitted he is spending only 2-3 percent on the tunnel effort, which was 'mainly interns'.

He started the talk by admitting 'I ask myself that frequently' when asked why he was boring.

Musk also said Tesla's Model 3 production should start in July and that Tesla cars should beable to go fully autonomously by the end of the year from LA to New York without a driver ever having to touch a control.

However, he admitted drivers should probably still stay awake.



Cars will use the system by simply driving into the designated parking areas, where they will be secured on an electric 'skate.

Elon Musk has been teasing his tunneling projectsince he first tweeted the idea during a frustratedrant aimed at LA's heavy traffic in December.

Now, the first details of the radical project have been revealed.

In an appearance at the TED conference in Vancouver, Musk showed off a new video of electric 'skates' transporting cars in a narrow tunnel under a city before raising them back to street level in a space as small as two parking spaces.




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4456626/Elon-Musk-s-Boring-Company-transport-cars-skates.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4452784/Elon-Musk-s-Boring-company-reveal-tunneling-machine.html

An open market in Deira then and now.

Changing landscapes:

Bur Dubai the historical heart of the city, translated as 'mainland Dubai' is shown the early stages of its development boom.

Today what's left of the old city contains several renovated traditional homes, boutique hotels and cafes

An open market in downtown Dubai in the 1960s, far cry from the glitzy malls that now make the city a hub for global luxury shoppers.

Maktoum Bridge in 1967 and now.

This fellow was a regular on the creek".

These men used to transport people across the creek.

Taken in December 1965. Courtesy Michael Hamilton-Clark

Aerial of D-S Road site office then and now.

A sliding barn door hides a bathroom with a toilet, shower, washer, and dryer.

It’s not huge, but the bedroom is big enough to comfortably sleep two.

The home utilizes A.C., mirrors and hanging lighting for a more spacious feel.

Instead of a bedside table, there are tiny shelves on the walls of the bedroom that can fit your remote controls, phone, book, or other things you typically toss on a nightstand.

The kitchen is large enough to fit a full-sized refrigerator, full-sized oven, sink, counter space, and lots of cabinets.

This home features beautiful tall ceilings, wood paneled floors, and light colored wood panel walls.

The floor plan is fairly spacious and accommodates a kitchen that you can cook up some delicious meals in.

Though the house doesn’t look like much from the outside, aside from the overhead light and potted plants, but it’s absolutely beautiful inside.

Let’s take a tour of this fully furnished home.







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Lalasticlala, mynd44

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Men gather in al-Naif souq, one of the oldest traditional markets in Dubai.

Waterways then and now.

Dubai Marina in 2003 and now.

Dubai International Airport 1971 and now.

Sheikh Zayed Road in 1990 and now.

Deira Clock Tower 1969 and now.

Downtown Dubai in 2005 and 2016.

From desert to the jewel of the Middle East, these pictures taken few years back show the emirate city has undergone a remarkable transformation in a very short space of time.




https://lovindubai.com/dubai/celebrating-the-uae-the-10-pictures-that-show-how-dubai-has-changed?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C4840992499

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2144613/Pictures-Dubai-1960s-1970s-city-fishing-settlement.html

http://m.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/in-pictures-expat-gives-gift-of-memories-to-uae#1
lalasticlala, mynd44

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this mark of a person, is the kind of role model alot of people should look up to.

Sure.

Nice

This machine can go miles down below the ocean for days or weeks without coming to the surface.

When there's an accident, issue or fault onbard, it sinks deep to the dark bottom of the ocean.

Rescue is difficult or even impossible most times.

12th August 2000, Russian K-141 Kursk was an Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise-missile submarine of the Russian Navy which was lost with all hands when it sank in the Barents sea.

At 11:28 local time (07:28 UTC), there was an explosion equivalent to 3-7 tons of TNT from one of the Torpedoes on board.

The explosion blew a large hole in the hull and collapsed the first three compartments of the sub, sending her down to the bottom of the ocean.

There were 118 personnel on board, no survivor.

21st August, 2000,(9days later), Norwegian and Russian divers found 24 bodies in the 9th compartment, the turbine room at the stern of the submarine.

The Captain-lieutenant Dmitri Kolesnikov has written a note after the explosion listing the names of 23 sailors who were alive in the compartment after the submarine sank.

The 23 sailors were alive for days after the explosion at the bottom of the sea, in the dark, with little oxygen hoping and waiting for rescue which will never come.

The Submarine was recovered from the ocean one year later.





Navy is scary.

An interior view of the command cabin.

An interior view of a meeting and operation room in the sub.

A view of radiation-proof clothes in the submarine.

An interior view of the kitchen in the decomissioned submarine now part of a museum exhibition on the coast of China:

Qingdao Naval Museum was built in 1989 and is the only museum in the country that shows visitors howthe Chinese Navy has developed over time.

A view of the nuclear reactor compartment.