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Elon Musk Plans To Build Hyperloop Test Track
An anonymous reader writes that Elon Musk wants to speed up the development of his proposed 800-mph tube transport. "Billionaire and entrepreneur Elon Musk is getting more hands-on with the Hyperloop. Musk, who heads up both space transportation outfit SpaceX and electric-vehicle maker Tesla Motors, casually announced via Twitter on Thursday that he's decided to help accelerate development of his vision for near-supersonic tube transportation, first outlined in August 2013. Musk said he will build a five-mile test track for the still-theoretical system for students and companies to use. A possible location would be Texas, he added, where presumably there is plenty of flat land to go around."
Wow, I never thought I'd see the day when all of the following were included in a rant about new transportation technology:
1. Americans are stupid
2. Immigration
3. Obama complaints
4. Castro complaints (and by extension, communism)
5. Putin complaints (see above)
6. Pelosi complaints
We need voter friendly measurements. Instead of "Los Angeles to San Francisco in 28 minutes.", we need "like crossing 20 Olympic swimming pools in 13 parsecs."
Silence is a state of mime.
"Look, Musk is not some sort of demigod."
Citation needed.