[ExI] Inflation and the 2024 election

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, 19 October, 2026 4:16 AM
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Cc: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>; spike at rainier66.com
Subject: Re: [ExI] Inflation and the 2024 election

 

On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 3:29 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

 

> This has drifted way into silly.

 

 

>…Silly Indeed! Spike is proposing that a 249 mile long tunnel (7 times longer than the longest known tunnel in the world) between the Capitol Building in Washington and the Greenbrier hotel in West Virginia was made without anybody ever noticing such a massive construction…

 

We noticed.  The neighbors near the Naval Observatory were complaining constantly.

 

>… and then in 1992 when the Greenbrier bunker was decommissioned that magnificent tunnel was apparently completely filled in, again with nobody ever noticing…

 

Who said it was apparently filled in please?

 

>… because today there's not the slightest hint at either the Capital Building or the Greenbrier hotel that the tunnel ever existed….

 

What hints are you looking for.

 

>… I can't think of anything sillier, except that Trump won the 2020 election. 

 

John K Clark

 

Were not the results of the 2016 and 2024 elections sillier?

 

Note that the tunnels the Gazans built with foreign aid money were built with no one noticing as well.

 

The absence of such tunnels would mean that an attack on DC would take out command and control.  Is that really what you wish to claim?

 

But the tunnel wouldn’t need to go all the way out there to West Virginia.  They (several of them) could radiate from DC in multiple directions out to some safe distance, then new tunnels could go to that Greenbrier facility, or any other one that we don’t know about.

 

John I will offer this: you have very high confidence in your opinions.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 12:11 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:



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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> > On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat

>>>…WHAT!!!  Of course there wasn't a 249 mile long tunnel between Washington DC and the hotel! Don't be ridiculous!

>>... That would be… impossible, ja?

>>... What is the longest possible tunnel please?


>...The longest possible tunnel depends on a few assumptions.  ...

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