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Colorado Company Says It Plans To Test Hyperloop Transport System
Freshly Exhumed writes "Elon Musk's dream of a hyperloop transport system seems to be closer to reality than he anticipated. Hyperloop transportation, referred to by Musk as a "cross between a Concorde, a railgun, and an air hockey table", is a tubular pneumatic transport system with the theoretical capability of carrying passengers from New York to L.A. in about 30 minutes at velocities near 4,000 miles per hour, while maintaining a near-continuous G force of 1. Colorado-based company ET3 is planning to build and test its own version of such a hyperloop system, Yahoo reports." A more critical article would point out that the numbers presented seem absurdly optimistic; $100 for a 4,000mph cross country trip may be "projected," but construction of a cross-country train tube is a long way off, and so are ticket sales.
Is there a documentary I could watch that will give me some idea of the absurd disaster scenarios somebody has invented for this technology?
It's already 3000 AD? Time to go shopping for my Lucy Liu bot and Slurm.
Nearly 3000 miles of travel, at up to 4000 mph, in 30 minutes?
It's a fast 4000 mph, not a normal 4000 mph.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
Sounds like a bit of a pipe dream to me...
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