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

[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.

[GeronL]

I don’t want it in Texas if he wants taxdollars

[Jeff Chandler]

Actually, we’re traveling at 69,360.73 MPH.

[cynwoody]

I don't care how slowly you start off ... getting beyond 300 MPH would put stresses on an average body it could not process

Let's see ... if Elon's tube train accelerates at the rate his Tesla Model S P85D does 0 to 60, it would take 41 seconds to get up to 760 mph, and the passengers would look like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQHvMU6a0uA

.... and then y'gutt'a slow down and come to a stop

It would be neat if the seats swiveled 180° for the deceleration phase.

[Big Red Badger]

You’re Right!!!

Mail Tubes have been around a while.

[I want the USA back]

Too expensive, but it can work.
As for teleportation, it will never happen for living creatures.

[cynwoody]

That's spray can art from recyclenation.

[Jeff Chandler]

Why would speed have any effect on the human body? It’s acceleration, deceleration, and changes in direction which create gravitational stress. There are three people right now traveling at 17,300 mph.

[Jeff Chandler]

17,100 mph

[knarf]

614 MPH

[knarf]

A train ... on earth .... traveling at the speed of sound .... what can go wrong ?

Look at those happy yuppies in coach.

[moovova]

I saw that. But from that angle...looked kind of interesting...and gory.

[al baby]

Maybe we could use that kinda tube to bring us water from the Columbia river ??????? Fricken idiots!!!!!

[DiogenesLamp]

And yet chances are, you recently drove over or through something built by the big government projects of the 1930’s, and gave it nary a thought.

Once someone is born, it takes them a little while to get their bearings, especially regarding principles and events which occurred before they were born.

It takes time to realize ones political philosophy and why it is correct.

[Jeff Chandler]

what can go wrong?

That's a different subject.

[SpaceBar]

Just for the record, I'm not advocating ‘big government’ and all that implies. I'm simply saying that there may be some things that transcend the market place. Otherwise our military would have the GE or Procter & Gamble label. Hyperbole is easy, thinking inside the constraints of the real world and human nature is difficult.

[cynwoody]

614 MPH

According to the Wikipedia, Colonel Stapp's peak g-force was 46.2. He lived to 89, but suffered life-long vision damage from the last test.

Zero to 760 in 41 seconds averages about 0.85g. High enough to plaster your phone to the back of your seat, but not high enough to injure you.

[SpaceBar]

I am also aware that your freep handle refers to a greek dude who wandered the streets with a lamp looking for an honest man, which in my book was way ahead of his time.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— Reading between the lines you can tell that Musk expects us to pay for it all. -—

Apparently we’re already on the hook for $5 billion for his other enterprises.

This looks like terrorist bait. And what about earthquakes?

[knarf]

ok ... you win .... gimmee a call when you get there

[BBell]

I just read your link. It always amazes me how something that could have been of historical significance can be lost and forgotten in short period of time.