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Re:Hyperloop One Becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’ by Gustomaximus on Thursday October 12, 2017 @10:33AM (#15458221)
So much this. Especially when people chime in with some minor detail means it will fail because clearly 'must not have thought of it' if they didnt mention in some 400 word press release.

Its like Elon going into trucking and people saying the range isn't sufficient. The guy is pretty darn smart. I'm confident he understands trucking range and has some solutions, and simply isn't discussing it for secrecy and/or succinctness.

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Re:Hyperloop One Becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’ by Avshalom on Thursday October 12, 2017 @10:56AM (#15458418)
Yeah but in this case every solution appears to be turning it into a normal train so we aren't even getting anything novel out of it anymore.
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Re:Hyperloop One Becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’ by cowsandmilk on Thursday October 12, 2017 @11:24AM (#15458639)
> if they didnt mention in some 400 word press release.

There's a lot of in depth criticism of hyperloop based on Elon's 57 page paper. It is hardly a case of gut reactions to 400 word press releases.

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