[kortilla]

It’s incredible how defensive people get around others’ ambitious goals.

Every Elon company sets super high goal targets. They are often completely unrealistic with current technology but it inspires certain types of people to innovate and it works quite well.

> The Swiss dig a lot of holes from easy to very complex terrain. If there was an easy way go that much faster they would.

Nobody said anything about “easy”. Also, The argument of “the established players don’t work on X so X isn’t possible” doesn’t work.

If the Swiss are happy with their industry the industry isn’t going to risk really capital intense experimentation to do better. See: Innovator’s dilemma