Many have observed that Elon Musk’s Boring Company (which ostensibly is about improving the tunnel-digging state-of-the-art so that we can have lots of nice subway / tunnel infrastructure and alleviate traffic) seems like it would be quite helpful for digging airtight underground habitats on Mars, thus tying into Elon’s SpaceX ambitions of settling the red planet.
Similarly, I feel that the project of constructing really-high-quality civilizational refuges could benefit from the technology required to build space habitats like the ISS. As excerpted from a longer Forum comment of mine about the overlaps between EA & space exploration:
I think the bunker project has a lot of overlap with existing knowledge about how to build life-support systems for space stations, and with near-future projects to create large underground moonbases and mars cities. It would certainly be worth trying to hire some human-spaceflight engineers to consult on a future EA bunker project. I even have a crazy vision that you might be able to turn a profit on a properly-designed bunker-digging business — attracting ambitious employees with the long-term SpaceX-style hype that you’re working on technology to eventually build underground Martian cities, and earning near-term money by selling high-quality bunkers to governments and eccentric billionaires.
Many have observed that Elon Musk’s Boring Company (which ostensibly is about improving the tunnel-digging state-of-the-art so that we can have lots of nice subway / tunnel infrastructure and alleviate traffic) seems like it would be quite helpful for digging airtight underground habitats on Mars, thus tying into Elon’s SpaceX ambitions of settling the red planet.
Similarly, I feel that the project of constructing really-high-quality civilizational refuges could benefit from the technology required to build space habitats like the ISS. As excerpted from a longer Forum comment of mine about the overlaps between EA & space exploration: