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Why on Earth would we want a rail connection to the UK? If we were going to go through the trouble of building such a megastructure, surely we'd go the extra cm on the map and connect to mainland Europe?

Not that we need that either, or want it, but even in the fever dream this article presents, this doesn't make sense.

> with tech CEO Elon Musk even suggesting that he would be capable of getting the construction started for a fraction of estimated costs.

Name one construction project the man has completed under budget.

His rebranding of Twitter/X was probably under budget given they didn't do market research, didn't hire product design consultants and didn't use common sense.