Elon Musk names his first boring machine ‘Godot’
The first tunneling machine from Elon Musk’s boring company has been named – Godot. Musk previously asked for help on Twitter in naming the machine.
“First machine is Godot. Still waiting … Don’t know why, when or where,” Elon Musk tweeted minutes after announcing the “naming theme will be poems & plays.”
Naming theme for tunnel boring machines will be poems & plays. Decided against plays & poems. Too obvious.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 11, 2017
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First machine is Godot. Still waiting … Don't know why, when or where.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 11, 2017
The name is inspired from “Waiting for Godot”, a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives, and while waiting they engage in a variety of discussions and encounter three other characters. In a poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre in 1990 it was voted the “most significant English language play of the 20th century.”
Last week, founder of Tesla, SpaceX and more recently a boring company, Elon Musk challenged his Twitter followers to come up with a name for its first tunneling machine.
Some of the names suggested from Elon Musk’s Twitter followers included: Tunnel McTunnelFace, Boring machine, Displacement Activity, William Burroughs, and Dug.
Musk publicly announced in December a project to build a tunnel to relieve urban traffic congestion called “The Boring Company.”
Musk said that the goal is to improve tunneling speed “somewhere between 500 and 1,000%,” and that the starting point was a “test trench” on the grounds of SpaceX’s Hawthorne, California headquarters.
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