[Larry Lucido]

Obviously, we need to install a vacuum-tube system like at banks to "chute" entire families out of town. Just drop the tube in the slot, hit "send," and chute yourself to the city of your choice.

[Tall_Texan]

Obviously, we need to install a vacuum-tube system like at banks to "chute" entire families out of town. Just drop the tube in the slot, hit "send," and chute yourself to the city of your choice.

Won't work. There'll be a discrimination lawsuit the first time some 400-pound fatty can't fit into the tube. Then, of course, there will be a wrongful death lawsuit the first time granny's oxygen tube comes out or she suffers "deceleration trauma".

You can't do anything effective nowadays unless the most feeble and incapable among us are able to access it.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Obviously, we need to install a vacuum-tube system like at banks to "chute" entire families out of town. Just drop the tube in the slot, hit "send," and chute yourself to the city of your choice.

I expect that you're semi-serious but London's first "tube" was pneumatic and worked just fine. It has long since gone to electric trains but the name remains.

Funny, I thought the same thing when I read the post. Not vacuum, more like "mag-lev" but underground, why not?

Regards,
GtG