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 ...
A 1972 proposal in the LA Times from RAND -—
http://www.reptoids.com/Vault/Underground/LA2NYnHalfnHour.htm
Two things. One, its not really good to be on a bridge or a train going 60 during an earthquake either. But they should be able to stop the train at the first hint of a quake. Then the question is, how do you get out.
I would think they should be able to make this earthquake resistant. Not meaning it could take a direct hit. But it should do well with most rumbling.
The first thing you learn in business school is “always use someone else’s money”.
An what will prevent people from taking potshots at the tube?
Very interesting. There was talk about an underground NY to Boston line 10-20 years ago. Above ground seems crazy.
Hoo-RAH, a winner idea for sure.
It takes 360 seconds to reach 760 MPH at 0.1 g of acceleration (about 2.1 MPH per second). That’s a very mild force on the body. So it takes 6 minutes to get up to cruising speed and 6 minutes to stop if 0.1 g is the design goal. Half that that time for 0.2 g’s. I believe 0.2 g’s is common for a commercial airliner.
I’ll take your word for it.
Or they could fly
Just like his greed for govt funds for Tesla
I know it’s a big number, but that .73 at the end..........
Bet it will be fun to ride during an earthquake.
Elmer Gantrey can’t hold a candle to Musk.
People survived acceleration and deceleration in the Concorde and other planes all the time. Provided the deceleration is not 760 mph to 0 mph takes 5 min rather than 3 or 4 seconds people will survive.
???????? A 737 travels in cruise at about 550 mph.
A wee bit faster actually. Our galaxy is traveling 1,328,400 mph toward Andromeda and the rotational speed of our galaxy is about 500,000 mph.
We are hauling butt through space.
Yep. At least 60 years ago, the J.C. Penny’s store in my home town had a pneumatic tube to send communication canisters from the sales floor to the office.
I saw them in action.
I'm not so sure anymore that it doesn't. Certainly General Electric swings a h*ll of a lot more clout than I feel comfortable with. The Military obviously doesn't wear their colors, etc, but make no mistake that this and other corporations have a great deal of influence on what the Military does, and how it is structured and arrayed.
Hyperbole is easy, thinking inside the constraints of the real world and human nature is difficult.
Human nature is exactly why communism can never work. It's also exactly why some people keep wanting to try it.
As far as the great public works projects instituted by Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt, I cannot answer as to whether they were things that could have only been done by a massively overreaching government, or whether or not they could have or would have been done, perhaps more slowly, for a properly constrained one, but my political inclination is to believe that they could have been done by a smaller less domineering government operating within it's proper constraints, and that we would have all been better off in the long run had we taken that path instead of this one.
If your argument is that the free market cannot solve every problem, then I suppose I must agree. Quite often enough, it causes actual problems.
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