The slick and focussed Stuff To Blow Your Mind podcast returns with the new “Subterrenes: Like Submarines but Underground”. The episode examines…
The notion of a subterrene, or underground drilling vehicle, is well established within the realm of science fiction, but what are the real-world possibilities for vehicles that drill or melt their way through the subterranean world.
Start at 9:20 minutes to skip the intros.
One might at first think ‘steampunk, Jules Verne, Mole Man from Fantastic Four‘, but these days we have to start thinking ‘nuclear-powered Boring Company mega-driller with Elon Musk at the controls’.
“To the Core” by Binoched
Lovecraftians may also be interested in the March 2020 Stuff To Blow Your Mind “The Invention of the Book”, a two-parter on the early history of book technologies.