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
While we’re at it, let’s connect the two Parises. Or the three—they do call Atlanta the Paris of the south (is that Atlanta? Seems…wrong. I’ve been to Atlanta. And Paris. I see no resemblance.)
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```
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.
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.
I think the better question is why did Russia allow the US State of Georgia to annex land in that area? Did no one think about the transportation issue before hand!?!
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.
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.
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.