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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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