Posted on 06/06/2015 12:19:51 PM PDT by Baynative
Elon Musk's 'Hyperloop' was dismissed as a pipe dream that would never get off the ground.
But now the billionaire's plans to shoot capsules of passengers along a tube at around the speed of sound may launch as soon as next year.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has secured land for the first full-scale Hyperloop with a 2016 launch in the California town of Quay Valley.
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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.
Someone grew up reading too much “Tom Swift”
Hey maybe they can power it with Solar Panels from Musk’s Solar World company.
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?
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!
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.
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.
It’s cost might be equal to the original projections for the California High Speed rail.
But it was “the Simpsons” that exposed Musk as a money-sucking fraud.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
Always wondered why freight couldn’t move this way.
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.
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.
I'm no phycicist, but when I step from a platform onto a train, we're both doing (in MY relativity) .. zero.
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