I don’t think he personally is going to dismantle the thing. He runs multiple companies. Presumably he’s going to assign engineers to do it. And who knows, maybe recent technical advances really will allow them to build a better boring machine. I kinda doubt they’re going to improve speeds three orders of magnitude, but I’m prepared to be wrong.
The media’s tendency to talk about him as a Heinleinian polymath superhero isn’t an accident, it’s part of the cult of personality that they perpetuate to sell copy and he doesn’t correct because it’s useful branding. But let’s not really believe he’s doing the job of hundreds of engineers in his down time between managing multiple multi-billion dollar corporations.
