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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: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.

  7. 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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