"tube-transport will catapult you from New York to Beijing" ...
Why would I ever want to even be in either New York or Beijing?
"tube-transport will catapult you from New York to Beijing" ...
Why would I ever want to even be in either New York or Beijing?
((((Ping))))
Evacuated Tube Transport could take you around the world in just 6 hours
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=McpWcn-1RZU
You could never have this on the same planet as Islam. It would be too juicy a target.
How do you build a tube across the Pacific?
Would you need to take the change out your pockets so you wouldn’t get stuck like the smaller one at bank drive-thrus.
A total pipe dream. I wonder if Obama will fund it?
Indeed, screw Beijing. That’s a marriage in hell for them, and I do not have to support that with my taxes. Good bye.
Another fantasy transport idea I think is cool is the tunnel through the center of the earth and it would require zero power.
The nature of gravity would accelerate you toward the center of the earth and as you passed it you would begin to slow down coming to a stop exactly at the surface on the far side of the planet. 42 minutes from anywhere on the globe.
Its never going to happen for obvious reasons but its still a cool idea.
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-gravity-express/
Ditch the tubes, keep the catapult and start loading up the liberals and marxists in this country for a one way trip.
Drill a hole straight through the Earth and you can get from New York to China (or just about anywhere on Earth) in 43 minutes. Of course, you might not survive the trip due to intense heat or magma on the tunnel, but you’ll make it there.
I wonder who is paying these guys salaries?
“Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well, by 76 we’ll be AOK.
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free.”
Donald Fagen
A libertarian Author thought this up a long time ago...
Originally penned in 1980, it’s on it’s 3rd incarnation now.
http://www.bigheadpress.com/tpbtgn?page=164
Bighead Press has the whole graphic novel up if anyone is interested in reading the whole thing.
Of course, they haven't worked out the landing yet but experts feel the growing pool of bloody protoplasm at the end of the tube will soon be sufficient enough to buffer the deceleration forces upon landing.
Yeah, I don’t want to go to Beijing or New York. I’d rather go to Tahiti.
LA sucks. NY blows. Tell me something I didn’t know.