On: Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock

[itp]

I think it'll be neat to continue to use the word "earth" as a quaint anachronism in some long distant future. A great opportunity to explain to kids that humanity was once limited to a single astronomical body...

(The optimist in me is leaking out.)

[lupyro → itp]

When I was a child and learned the name of our planet was Earth, I was extremely disappointed. How could we possible name our own planet after something as boring as 'dirt'?

[oblio → itp]

Heh... Horsepower. Candela. We have a lot of precedents ;)