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Elon Musk Admits He Is Too Busy To Build Hyperloop

Posted by timothy on from the if-you-can-bear-through-the-intrusive-ads dept.

DavidGilbert99 writes "It sounded like the future — a 600mph train taking people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in just 30mins. In fact it sounded like a future too good to be true. And so it seems to have proven. As Alistair Charlton at IBTimes reports, Elon Musk, the man behind PayPal, Tesla and Space X has admitted that Hyperloop is a step too far and he should never have mentioned it in the first place — 'I think I shot myself in the foot by ever mentioning the Hyperloop. I'm too strung out.' Oh well, let's hope SpaceX works out a bit better ... " Considering that SpaceX has already sent materials to the ISS and retrieved the capsule, it seems to have worked out pretty well so far.

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  1. Re:Page Not Found by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He was too busy to write it.

  2. Not Iron Man after all by Pedestrianwolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    This just completely shattered my illusions of Elon Musk as a real life Tony Stark.

    1. Re:Not Iron Man after all by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think the problem is not enough cocaine. Look at how Tony Stark acts, that requires Scarface sized piles of cocaine.

      Not that I want to kill Elon Musk, but that might just be the price of progress.
       

  3. Re:Link not working by SJHillman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe we just need to figure out how to apply regenerative braking to rocket engines...

  4. Re:There are no NIMBYs in space... by TheSkepticalOptimist · · Score: 4, Funny

    BTW its not a train but a capsule suspended in air by magnets in a tube. The sound it would make is probably the muffled woosh as often heard by readers of Slashdot.

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  5. Time to get pedantic by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    It sounded like the future — a 600mph train taking people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in just 30mins. In fact it sounded like a future too good to be true.

    A future where SF and LA are only 300 miles apart does sound a little unlikely.

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    1. Re:Time to get pedantic by ebno-10db · · Score: 4, Funny

      A future where SF and LA are only 300 miles apart does sound a little unlikely.

      Plate tectonics will do the job.

  6. Re:There are no NIMBYs in space... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And where are those killer farm animals located? In the very same rural fields that the trains would be passing through! You'd be bringing the people right to them!

  7. Re:Elon Musk... by tgd · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can't be serious...
    Do a little more research about that stuff (i.e. who's getting tax money, who's giving it back etc).

    He could very well be serious, and a moron. The combination happens in droves on Slashdot.

  8. Re:Page Not Found by bitt3n · · Score: 5, Funny

    all slashdot articles link to 404's. you're just the first person to actually click on one

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