What could possibley go wrong, Jack????
Posted on 07/17/2013 5:32:54 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
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Hyperloop transportation — referred to ... as a "cross between a Concorde, a railgun, and an air hockey table" — is a super fast tubular transport system with the ability to theoretically send someone from New York to L.A. in 30 minutes.
Utilizing vacuum-sealed tubes, six-person capsules could be propelled up to speeds of 4,000 miles per hour. All while only feeling the G-forces similar to a car ride.
Colorado-based company, ET3, is planning to build and test its own version of such a system, Yahoo reports, though they are calling it "Evacuated Tube Transport." ET3 will build a three-mile-long version to test by the end of 2013.
With prototypes already constructed, ET3's pioneering foray into Evacuated Tube Transportation could quickly move the new travel system from science fiction dream into a feasible reality.
ET3 has released a video detailing their system and how it will work, which you can watch below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51HbmuKhRbk&
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Shortest route on the whole system.
maybe we could install one of these near the border that runs to the far southern side of Mexico, and put every illegal alien we catch on it :)
Seriously, everyone knows nature abhors a vacuum. Consider a structure 3000 miles long that needs to be hermetically sealed except for the ends, which need to open up large enough to accommodate a six-passenger vehicle, then quickly snap closed to make a perfect seal ... constantly. Sound feasible?
Remember it's outside, exposed to sun, weather, seismic action, so it will need expansion joints, but it needs to be perfectly straight, or straight enough that you won't spill a drop of your wine zipping through at 4000 mph...
Sure, sounds like a great idea - very do-able. That Keystone Pipeline, though, that's a disaster waiting to happen.
Just saying.
A raindrop can’t exist in a vacuum. A chunk of ice maybe.
Where is my 6L6 or 12AX7 ?!
Yes and the most important are 12ax7, 12au7, el34 and
6l6. They transport from sweet to down right grunge.
“I can envision a lot of bad things happening with this idea.”
Rapid loss of cabin pressure may have a bloating effect.
Super Conducting Super Speed Money Trap for Federal Dollars Ping!
Very small ping list.
I am the only one that remembers how much money and how many people were disrupted when some guy thought it would be cool to watch particles run into each other.
Whole lotta negative vibrations on this thread. I can imagine an airlock that changes to airless lock for egress into the system, gotta have oxygen in the cars though , blue people look funny. gotta have some type of wheels mounted on shocks to keep the car in the center of the tunnel. magnetics could do it but the price is probably high.. AND... I would want to watch a lot of people (preferably democrats)go first as a test run.
Vacuum Tube Company Is Building A 3-Mile Hyperloop-Like Transport System That Sucks.
**What could possibly go wrong?**
Dunno. But whatever it is that can go wrong will happen fast!
Awww heck the aliens have transport tubes between Dulce and Area 51 that are way faster than that.
Yes, think of the possibilities a terrorist could see, about the effects of a small bomb laid against the outside of that tube, anywhere along its length.
Try objects in the path like concrete chips, puddles of water, dropped marbles, etc., etc., etc.
Saw this in Pop Science about 30 years ago.
We can call it the WE 320-A Border Blaster.
Failure of vacuum leading to rapid compression and combustion gets my vote. Gotta love those diesels.
What could possibley go wrong, Jack????
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