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<\/a> Emilio Flores
La Feria News <\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a> Sci-Fi movies like Back to the Future are what it seems we\u2019re living in now. Sci-Fi Technology seems to have emerged into our reality, with Flying cars, underground high-speed tunnels, and spaceships just around the corner! What will the Rio Grande Valley be like in five, ten years?
Back in May, Starship serial number 15 (SN15) successfully completed SpaceX\u2019s fifth high-altitude flight test of a Starship prototype from Starbase in Texas. The Starship spacecraft is a \u201csuper-heavy-lift launch vehicle\u201d under development by SpaceX being tested since 2019 and had its first successful flight in August of 2020. It\u2019s both for crew transportation and cargo carrying. Starship is a two stage rocket, and completely reusable for launch.
There has also been talk of creating an underground tunnel for SpaceX employees living on the Island or in Laguna Madre area, allowing easier commute to and from work. This tunnel would also allow the public access to parts of the Boca Chica beach that they otherwise wouldn\u2019t be able to access. This idea was suggested by The Boring Company, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, though this proposal may not gain much traction.
\u201c(Paying for it) is not something that the county would be interested in,\u201d Sepulveda told The Herald. \u201cThat would be prohibitive for us. We really didn\u2019t get into those details, but once we do we wouldn\u2019t be able to participate with any type of funding.\u201d Furthermore, they said, \u201cKeep in mind that the ship channel goes by there, so that depth would have to be pretty far down.\u201d
This wouldn\u2019t be The Boring Company\u2019s first underground tunnel. Currently their only underground tunnel is in Las Vegas, stretching to be 2 miles long and costing roughly $50 million to build. Though in comparison, the proposal of this tunnel would only be a third of a mile, Sepulveda told The Herald, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think we\u2019re willing to work with SpaceX just to look at what options, solutions, are out there. I\u2019m not sure what amount, if any, we can bring to the table financially.\u201d Futuristic Technological Advancements Happening in the RGV Emilio FloresLa Feria News Sci-Fi movies like Back to the Future are what it seems we\u2019re living in now. Sci-Fi Technology seems to have emerged into our reality, with Flying cars, underground high-speed tunnels, and spaceships just around the corner! What will the Rio Grande Valley be like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","category-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12896,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12892\/revisions\/12896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
And now more recently a company called Paragon VTOL has placed its headquarter in Brownsville. Paragon VTOL\u2019s vision is to have flying drones that have the capacity to taxi people. In a conference held in Brownsville Tx., Dwight Smith, founder of Paragon VTOL LLC, Explains why He chose Brownsville, \u201c\u2026It all comes down to leadership. When I made the decision to come down to Brownsville, it was because of the leadership.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a>