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be specific, I have an active Excel spreadsheet for 2025. My Premiere wants to build a tunnel under a 12 lane highway.
Not nearly as bad as trying to build a tunnel under the ocean through different tectonic plates.
Again, a great actual engineer might somehow be able to pull that off but Elmo Musk's single self contribution to engineering has been the cyber truck.
Other things that actually sorta work, like say the SpaceX rockets (again, sort of work) are all the results of actual engineers doing their jobs and even then; you don't see a ticket scientist building a tunnel because the two fields are extremely different and the amount of knowledge and expertise required to do either is so much that in reality you don't have "an engineer" working on them, but entire teams of experts dedicated to separate sections of those types of projects. Yet, there are scores of people thinking that Elmo actually is an engineer (he is not), that is is a great engineer (lol no), that he designed the SpaceX rockets (lolololol) and that he is capable of designing a tunnel like that (aneurysm levels of hells to the no)