Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Speed Transport Tests

Re:Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Spe... by at-fates-hands on Thursday January 15, 2015 @04:16PM (#8895406)

>> transportation hasn't really changed a whole lot in the last 100 years or so

This is mainly because it really hasn't needed to. See most smaller European and Scandinavian countries where public transportation works well and riding bikes is far more common than it is here in the US. There's no need to go form one end of a country to another in 10 minutes.

I mean, in Germany, you can get a plan ticket to fly from Liechtenstein to Hamburg in about 60 minutes for around $300. Otherwise, it's about an 8 hour drive in your car. And that's one end of the country to the other.

I'm sure someone would pay to go from one end of the country to the other in a few minutes, but I can't think it's going to be cheap.

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Re:Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Spe... by 0x5f3759df-i on Thursday January 15, 2015 @04:21PM (#8895445)

I see the hyperloop's best use case in those countries as high speed package delivery. While you may not have a reason to go across the country in 10 minutes, you might want to have your online purchase shipped across the country in 10 minutes.

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Re:Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Spe... by remarkEon on Thursday January 15, 2015 @04:42PM (#8895571)

I don't know, I'd love to go across the country in 10 minutes. I live in Seattle and have a lot of friends and former co-workers that live in NYC/DC/Boston/Philly. Flying is expensive and miserable. Looping (Can we figure out a gerund for this? Looping sounds wrong) over to Brooklyn for drinks and then heading home sounds awesome. I think it would open up rapid transit in a way that just isn't possible for flight.

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Re:Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Spe... by Fuzzwah on Thursday January 15, 2015 @05:21PM (#8895809)

In my younger days I had a PVC potato gun which everyone referred to as a "fffoooooont cannon", due to the sound it made when you ignited the hairspray.

I imagine a hyperloop pod taking off down the tube will have a similar, but more awesome, sound.

I'd happily announce that I was about to fffoooooont across the country to visit someone.

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Re:Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Spe... by thewelder on Thursday January 15, 2015 @10:06PM (#8897051)

hairspray? we always used ether (starting fluid).

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Re:Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Spe... by threeseed on Thursday January 15, 2015 @07:58PM (#8896597)

And in order to do that we need to build a massive series of tubes ? I don't think so.

Better predictive SCM similar to what Amazon has been doing negates this for the majority of online purchases.

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Re:Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Spe... by at-fates-hands on Friday January 16, 2015 @11:06AM (#8899711)

I never thought of this application before. It would open up a lot of interesting possibilities.

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