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Re:Why Dumb Ideas Capture Smart and Successful People by hobs on Sunday November 19, 2023 @07:37AM (#38332116)
Physically impossible? Maybe, but the vacuum tube part was actually insane.

It would have been insanely difficult to maintain a useful enough vacuum over huge distances that the hyperloop was supposed to run.

A single failure in such a system could have catastrophic consequences across a huge range.

edit: beaten by @tsimionescu by a minute.

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