[BenLurkin]

What could possibly go wrong?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/07/06/12/35FF83F700000578-3676845-Hyperloop_One_has_said_it_will_need_to_build_one_of_the_world_s_-a-41_1467803640487.jpg

[dfwgator]

They’ll be Spandex Jackets, one for everyone.

[RightGeek]

Now add 1 jihadi with a shoe bomb and a slightly higher IQ than Richard Reid.

[Larry Lucido]

Helsinki in Finland and Stockholm in Sweden

"Wait, I thought it was the other way around..."

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

CMAAHROS.

Carrying Muslims At A Higb Rate Of Speed.

[Secret Agent Man]

Dead in 20 seconds.

They need a fast jihadi transport system. Ei think we’ve seen that Europeans aren’t just gonna blow themselves up anymore.

[Vendome]

They can’t speil “Nevada” correctly so this is “pre-fail”

[MNDude]

And you know who it is going to be transporting to the cities faster than ever!

[Jeff Chandler]

Actually, this makes more sense than building choo choos.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I’m sure this is coming to Europe. The liberals have a real fetish for train projects that cost $10 million per mile.

[dangus]

Helsinki and Stockholm aren’t terribly large cities. They’re certainly not obvious candidates for the first hyperlink.

But Helsinki isn’t far at all from St. Petersburg. And St. Petersburg and Moscow are very obvious candidates:

They have massive populations and are far and away the powerhouses of Russia. Moscow has 20 million residents and St. Petersburg has 6 million. (Compare to Western Europe’s largest city, London with 8 million.) They are far enough away from each other to make Hyperlink desirable, but have nothing but cheap real estate and flat, easy land in between.

St Petersburg was founded as Russia’s window to the West. Connecting to St Petersburg and Moscow would be a huge boon to Helsinki, but would risk it becoming seen as a satellite to Russia. Counterbalancing that with links to Stockholm and maybe even Oslo or Copenhagen/Malmo and Germany would make such linkage to Russia politically safer.

[dangus]

I’m also not ignoring the timing of this announcement. Sweden and Denmark are part of the EU, but like Britain, they don’t use the Euro, and they’re uneasy about their membership in the EU. While of course they certainly don’t want to be subsumed by Russia, they may well greatly like a counterbalance now that the EU is lame.

[toast]

Let the Europeans build the first one.

If it turns out to be an economical mode of transport the US built versions should be cheaper and safer after the bugs are worked out. I’m not a fan of being the guinea pig.