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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

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; elonmusk; hyperloop; maglev; musk; quayvalley; travel; tubes
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To: Pontiac

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


61 posted on 06/06/2015 1:39:30 PM PDT by GeronL ("NEW ARRIVALS" sci-fi ebook is free this weekend at Amazon!!!)
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To: Balding_Eagle

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


62 posted on 06/06/2015 1:40:45 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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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

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.

63 posted on 06/06/2015 1:41:07 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You’re Right!!!

Mail Tubes have been around a while.


64 posted on 06/06/2015 1:44:21 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Baynative

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


65 posted on 06/06/2015 1:48:11 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: moovova
That's spray can art from recyclenation.


66 posted on 06/06/2015 1:49:17 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: knarf

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.


67 posted on 06/06/2015 1:50:37 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

17,100 mph


68 posted on 06/06/2015 1:51:28 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: cynwoody
614 MPH
69 posted on 06/06/2015 1:51:50 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof .... but they're true)
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To: Jeff Chandler
A train ... on earth .... traveling at the speed of sound .... what can go wrong ?

Look at those happy yuppies in coach.

70 posted on 06/06/2015 1:55:21 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof .... but they're true)
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To: cynwoody

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


71 posted on 06/06/2015 1:55:36 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Baynative

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


72 posted on 06/06/2015 2:00:54 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: SpaceBar
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.

73 posted on 06/06/2015 2:04:33 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: knarf
what can go wrong?

That's a different subject.

74 posted on 06/06/2015 2:06:25 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: DiogenesLamp
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.
75 posted on 06/06/2015 2:10:12 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: knarf
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.

76 posted on 06/06/2015 2:12:29 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: 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.


77 posted on 06/06/2015 2:15:34 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: denydenydeny

-— 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?


78 posted on 06/06/2015 2:21:09 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: cynwoody

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


79 posted on 06/06/2015 2:23:10 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof .... but they're true)
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To: Rodamala

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.


80 posted on 06/06/2015 2:25:43 PM PDT by BBell (Pacifists are the parasites of Freedom)
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