Re:SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”
by dredmorbius on Friday January 16, 2015 @05:30PM
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There was a 1970s proposal for an underground tunneled very-high-speed transport quite similar to the hyperloop. Partially-evacuated tubes, relatively small vehicles. Cost and other considerations torpedoed it.
Look up R.M. Salter at RAND:
"The Very High Speed Transit System" (August, 1972)
"Trans-Planetary Subway Systems -- A Burgeoning Capability" (February, 1978)
Look up R.M. Salter at RAND:
"The Very High Speed Transit System" (August, 1972)
"Trans-Planetary Subway Systems -- A Burgeoning Capability" (February, 1978)
http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4874.html http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P4874....
http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6092.html http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2009/P6092....
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