Hyperloop One Announces Opening of Its First Manufacturing Plant (techcrunch.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Hyperloop One is today announcing the opening of its first manufacturing plant. Called Hyperloop One Metalworks, the 105,000 square-foot building in North Las Vegas will be the new professional home of many of the company's 170 employees, including engineers, machinists and welders. These folks will build and test a number of components for the DevLoop, a full-system prototype of the Hyperloop, set for testing in 2017. The project, if successful, promises a half-hour travel time between Stockholm and Helsinki, which is the equivalent of about 300 miles. The company plans to have a working prototype of the Hyperloop by 2017 thanks to this new plant."Hyperloop One Metalworks is the first Hyperloop manufacturing plant in the world," said co-founder and President of Engineering Josh Giegel in a press release. "The ability to have a world-class machine shop in-house gives us an advantage to build rapidly and develop the Hyperloop in real-time."

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This could change everything...

[110010001000]

....just like the Segway did.

Re:Translating for the rest of the world

[Miamicanes]

"International" dates are big-endian.

British dates are little-endian.

American dates are VAX-endian.

Sorry. I've been waiting 20 years for the chance to use "VAX-endian" in a sentence. I couldn't pass it up... :-D

(for anybody who didn't major in computer science... the way VAX mainframes represented double-precision floating point internally was... er... kind of weird... I think it did something wacky like represent the mantissa as a little-endian bit sequence, followed by a big-endian exponent, so the most significant bits ended up in the middle. Or something like that. I'm not old enough to have had to personally deal with it, but I remember one of my professors mentioning it as a historical footnote during the discussion of big- vs little-endian-ness as an example of how a vendor could completely throw a monkey wrench into the usual dichotomy and make a REAL mess).

Re:Translating for the rest of the world

[angel'o'sphere]

It's worse for everyday use because shit is based on 10 which doesn't divide as evenly as things like 12, 36, 5280, etc.
This is a ver dumb argument, and wrong btw, a foot is not evenly divideable by 36.
Secondly: no one cares if a measuring can be diveded evenly (I assume you actually meant: diveded by integer division without leaving a reminder?)
Thirdly: it helps you absolutely nothing that a foot is 'evenly divedeable' by 2, 3, 4, 6, 12 because 9 feet 1" e.g is undevideable by any of them, so is 9 feet 9" and plenty of others.
I for my part extremely rarely work with stuff that exactly x (unit)'s long where dividing it up leads to nice rational numbers or natural numbers even. More interestingly: the situation that I have to divide something up like that rarely occures.
In real life my meassures are odd (and have a decimal point) all the time. So are yours.