Finale for H/T mode
A nice closeout for this week's hat/tip mode.

A huge hat/tip to SOME of the candidates for mayor in Chicago. Astonishingly, they are COMMITTING REAL POLITICS and COMMITTING HONESTY. They are OPPOSING the Elonian Tunnel, a MAXIMALLY COOL Wall Street Scam that is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.

In most cities all candidates serve Bloomberg. All candidates support Wall Street frauds and crimes. Chicago is a partial exception, which is a tiny sign of hope for something vaguely resembling democracy.

From the Chicago Tribune:

Most candidates to replace Emanuel for mayor are either lukewarm about the project or hostile to it. If the city does not get a contract with the billionaire entrepreneur soon and elects a mayor who does not support the project, plans for the transit system are unlikely to move forward.

No surprise there. Emanuel is Obama, which means Emanuel is Wall Street.

Emanuel and Musk said the project would not cost the city anything, and would be entirely financed by the company. The plan has drawn skepticism from some engineering and transportation experts, who wonder how the company can dig a 17-mile tunnel and create passenger service in a few years for just $1 billion.

Experts don't "wonder". Experts KNOW that the whole thing is utter and total nonsense at ANY price. The tunnel CANNOT WORK. It is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE like perpetual motion.

Some nice sharp language from other candidates:

“I’d kill it,” said former Chicago Public Schools head Paul Vallas in a recent forum on improving the CTA. “I can’t wait to kill it.”

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle expressed reservations. “This is definitely something I would put on pause. If we’re going to make investments in transit, I think they should be investments in the CTA and in Metra.”

Asked if the project should continue, attorney and candidate Gery Chico told the Tribune in a statement, “Absolutely not, and it should be halted before February 26.”

Good work.

I don't know anything about Chicago politics, so I don't know if these folks have a realistic chance. A more familiar name (Daley) is also in the race, and basically approves the project with some extremely slight reservations. Daley is Obama, so he will win.

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Come to think of it, I'm amazed in the OTHER direction that the all-Bloomberg dysgovernment here in Spokane HASN'T already completed negotiations with Elon. This is exactly the kind of thing STA loves to do. Cut off all service to the stinky Deplorables who actually USE the bus, spend trillions to serve the COOL people who WILL NEVER COME NEAR PUBLIC TRANSIT UNDER ANY CONDITIONS.

Here. I'll help STA accomplish its normal purposes. Maybe they just haven't heard of this system before.

The route will be from COOOOOOL Kendall Yards to even CCCOOOOOOOLER Coeur d'Alene, with the terminal at Hagadone's floating resort.

I'll do the prelim engineering for a straight shot from Kendall to Hagadone.



The tunnel will pass through 3 miles of solid basalt, then run along the edge of the aquifer, alternating between solid basalt and gravel filled with running water for about 10 miles, then through solid basalt for the last 10 miles, then through the lake to the last bit that has to adapt telescopically to a floating platform.

Easy to dig through the aquifer! There's no solid at all! You just have to keep the wet gravel from backwashing into the dug part while you place the cylindrical sections. Not so easy through solid basalt. It might cost as much as $420 per mile by Elonian accounting standards.

The big advantage of the aquifer is that it's constantly shifting around and changing its flow pattern. The walls of the Hyperloop will be slammed around and floated up and down by the changing flow. Since the Hyperloop is essentially an old wooden roller-coaster, this will make the ride extra-fun!!!!! You never know when the Tunnel of Love will flood and turn into a twisty and turny Thai Pedo Cave!!!! Right up Elon's alley. Needless to say, all cars in the metro area will have to be mandatorily retrofitted (at owner expense) as amphibious vehicles with Github-updated software to make the automatic transition from Roller Coaster to Pedo Rescue Capsule.

There! Now the project is started. Over to you, STA!

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