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Elon Musk’s radical plan to let people travel in 760 mph tubes
Daily Mail ^ | Feb 2015 | Ellie Zolfagharifard and Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com

Posted on 06/06/2015 12:19:51 PM PDT by Baynative

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To: Baynative

This idea was first presented to the world by the stupidest character in the spoof Soap. I think that’s all we need to know about its viability.


21 posted on 06/06/2015 12:43:03 PM PDT by discostu (In fact funk's as old as dirt)
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To: Baynative

Someone grew up reading too much “Tom Swift”
Hey maybe they can power it with Solar Panels from Musk’s Solar World company.


22 posted on 06/06/2015 12:47:13 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Baynative

Tickets at $20 each. Yeah, sure, maybe if there’s an Amtrak-style government subsidy to keep the price down.

At peak hours, there would be about 60 trains in the LA/SF tube at once.

What happens when there’s a mechanical, electrical, or computer failure somewhere along the way?

Is there any way to escape from the train and then the tube in an emergency?

Slowdowns? Collisions?


23 posted on 06/06/2015 12:48:43 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Baynative


24 posted on 06/06/2015 12:49:12 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: knarf

Also to remember, if our traveler lives in LA, to be at a 9AM meeting in Paris, he’s got to leave LA at 2330 hours, as Paris is 9 hours ahead. Fun!


25 posted on 06/06/2015 12:50:23 PM PDT by W. (Animals are much stupider since Noah's Ark, because of inbreeding.--Oglaf)
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To: SpaceBar

Musk’s brilliance lies in getting others to foot the bill.

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His brilliance lies in making something better for less money.


26 posted on 06/06/2015 12:52:33 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: SpaceBar; 2ndDivisionVet; GeronL
What boy growing up in the 50’s and 60’s reading Popular Science didn’t think about something like this years ago?

I did read about this in Pop Sci when I was a teen 40 years ago.

It was a maglev vacuum tube train. I could travel at hyper speed more efficiently because of the reduced air resistance while traveling in a vacuum.

Musk must be somewhat of a masochist for building this in the People’s Republic of California.

27 posted on 06/06/2015 12:53:01 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Moonman62

It’s cost might be equal to the original projections for the California High Speed rail.


28 posted on 06/06/2015 12:54:38 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

But it was “the Simpsons” that exposed Musk as a money-sucking fraud.


29 posted on 06/06/2015 12:56:59 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Baynative

30 posted on 06/06/2015 12:59:16 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: Baynative
One thing you can say about Elon Musk. He's a dreamer. Unfortunately, all too often he seems to be a dreamer that is intent on using other people's money, generally pried out of them by government coercion.

The communists do this too for all their big projects.

How about you just spend volunteer money? How about you leave the taxpayer subsidies out of your ideas?

31 posted on 06/06/2015 12:59:36 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: knarf
I don't care how slowly you start off ... getting beyond 300 MPH would put stresses on an average body it could not process

We are already moving at 1,000 miles per hour, are you saying that is more or less the limit, and 1,300 miles per hour is too much?

32 posted on 06/06/2015 1:01:09 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Is Ted Cruz himself as mean-spirited as the FR 'Click-it or Tick-it' Cruz Contingent?)
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To: RegulatorCountry

nothing worse than an airplane hitting the ground. we accept that happening once n a while as a part of living in a civilized society.


33 posted on 06/06/2015 1:01:23 PM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

nothing worse than an airplane hitting the ground. we accept that happening once n a while as a part of living in a civilized society.


34 posted on 06/06/2015 1:02:41 PM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: Baynative

Toot Toot TooT went the engine..

Whoosh Whoosh Whoosh went the tube.

another wind power gubamint subsidized mini-boondoggle in the making..

I’d prefer a different vehicle or capsule.. maybe like giant ping pong balls.


35 posted on 06/06/2015 1:03:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Baynative

Always wondered why freight couldn’t move this way.


36 posted on 06/06/2015 1:05:04 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland
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To: DiogenesLamp

Michael Savage, just a few weeks ago, discussed ‘socialized projects’, and why, despite the ‘free market’ talk of conservatives, fulfill a need where the project is just too damned big for private interests. He cited all the vast works from the 1930’s initiated by FDR. Everyday people drive through tunnels, across bridges, and use electricity generated from those projects. The thing that is different today is the extreme graft and corruption of government. Oh corruption has always existed, but today it’s so brazen that you could never build a new Golden Gate Bridge, under-budget, and ahead of schedule. No way, jose.


37 posted on 06/06/2015 1:07:09 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Baynative

Sounds like it could make for a fun ride, at least until the government takes it over and we have unionized operators and maintenance people involved in running the thing.


38 posted on 06/06/2015 1:09:04 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Balding_Eagle
GOD IS LOVE, LOVE IS BLIND, STEVIE WONDER IS BLIND .... STEVIE WONDER IS GOD

I'm no phycicist, but when I step from a platform onto a train, we're both doing (in MY relativity) .. zero.

39 posted on 06/06/2015 1:11:01 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof .... but they're true)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"I learned something weird in my years spent working in intelligence. If the government, media or business start telling you about some wild, fantastical invention or project, they’ve already had it for 20 or 30 years." Yeah, but they're way overdue for telling us about UFO's;)
40 posted on 06/06/2015 1:11:04 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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