Elon Musk apparently wasn't joking about a Boring Company flamethrower — it's here

You might think that Elon Musk is a bit of a joker, but in hindsight, basically every joke he'd uttered became a real project. First he joked about boring a tunnel to escape Los Angeles' hideous traffic jams, and the Boring Company was born. Then he said he's going to send a Tesla car to Mars, and it appears that he's actually going to go through with it. 

But after he'd sold $600,000 worth of Boring Company hats, Musk said the next Boring Company product would be a flamethrower. Surely he must have been kidding about that one? Read more...