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Re:Hyperloop Freight is a Joke by bertiewhykovich on Sunday October 30, 2016 @08:28PM (#12833437)
Given that the Hyperloop is failing spectacularly, "a high intellect and a good general purpose engineering training" seem empirically to not accomplish quite as much as you think they do -- although, in fairness to high intellect and good general purpose engineering training, there was never any real reason to think that they'd be able to accomplish magic.
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Re:Hyperloop Freight is a Joke by icebraining on Sunday October 30, 2016 @08:41PM (#12833493)
1) Elon Musk is not building any Hyperloop, so I don't see how its supposed failure reflects on him.

2) Which Hyperloop is failing? There are at least three groups, and as far as I know, they haven't even got close to testing the system, let alone know if it's a failure or not.

I'm skeptical of the whole concept, but declaring failure at this stage is no less silly than assuming it'll definitively work.

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