Developers Making Progress Building Elon’s Hyperloop

[CommanderFrank]

If you thought the Hyperloop 800 MPH transit system announced by Elon Musk earlier was just a pipe dream, in fact, it’s not. While Musk himself handed off the project to a team of developers, progress is being made and plans are being drawn up for a nationwide system of transport tubes.

 

[Galvin]

So will loop become the new thing one day?
I'm going to loop over to NYC tonight. Then loop down to Texas Tuesday

 

[xX_Jack_Carver_Xx]

It's a series of Tubes!!!!

 

[shspvr]

Sweet Stargate Atlantis Puddle Jumper

 

[chili dog]

Maybe they'll build this instead of the stupid California 100 billion dollar "bullet" train, aka the Browndoggle.

 

[Megalith]

I'd like to see them make the elevator from Total Recall (2012) that falls through the center of the Earth.

 

[BlankIt]

Maybe they'll build this instead of the stupid California 100 billion dollar "bullet" train, aka the Browndoggle.

The "bullet" train didn't even make it to San Diego, such a pathetic waste of tax dollars.

 

[sfsuphysics]

how about you build a working model of this hyperloop first, hell make it 1/6th size on some farm land somewhere. Show that it is feasible, not "hey if we use this stuff, and make this, then profit!"

 

[nutzo]

Maybe they'll build this instead of the stupid California 100 billion dollar "bullet" train, aka the Browndoggle.

Only if the Democrats and their supporters can figure out a way to make more money from it than the bullet train.

Besides most of the Browndoggle will never be built, they will build just enough to keep the $$$ flowing to their supporters, with much of it being recycled into campaign contributions to keep them in office.

 

[viscountalpha]

how about you build a working model of this hyperloop first, hell make it 1/6th size on some farm land somewhere. Show that it is feasible, not "hey if we use this stuff, and make this, then profit!"

This! It's a logistical nightmare and I still have worries the design is safe.

 

[Ducman69]

 

[NIVO]

MONORAIL!

 

[lilbabycat]

MONORAIL?

 

[CreepyUncleGoogle]

Monorail...cat?

 

[nilepez]

how about you build a working model of this hyperloop first, hell make it 1/6th size on some farm land somewhere. Show that it is feasible, not "hey if we use this stuff, and make this, then profit!"

Wouldn't that fit in with the prototypes they intend to build next year?

 

[josephunh]

So apparently what the Northeast portion of the country is a no mans land?

 

[MrCaffeineX]

Star Trek style turbolifts that can take you anywhere in the country? Is it possible within my lifetime?

How many people had a mental image of the tube system in Futurama when the words Hyperloop and tube transport system were uttered in the same press release?

 

[CreepyUncleGoogle]

Possible and practical don't always hang out together.

 

[nilepez]

So apparently what the Northeast portion of the country is a no mans land?

There's already a ton of trains in the NE and I'm not sure how easy it'd be to get land rights from Manhattan to Boston (which already has trains that are about as fast as driving) as well as plenty of short flights (for about the same price as a train).