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The Hyperloop was always a scam (www.disconnect.blog)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It's time to be honest about Musk's vacuum tube to nowhere

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The underlying idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain has been tried many times, but its simply too expensive and fragile for real-world use. A single earthquake can cripple it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Important to say, tried many times AFTER being conceived over 100 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I feel like if the structure was above the earth, somewhere in the air between two points up in the sky it might be more interesting vs helicopters and airplanes but on earth, one big crack and it's goners