Posted on 12/24/2014 11:08:59 PM PST by wastedyears
NYC to LA in 45 Minutes Might Soon Become Reality Thanks to ‘Hyperloop'
(Excerpt) Read more at luminarydaily.com ...
We have a bunch of physicists on here, hopefully they'll check even though it's a weird hour now.
Earth rotation.
It would have to be about 3600 mph, average to hit your numbers. That’s getting hypersonic. I am skeptical it won’t become a boondoggle. Is it really worth the many billions of dollars the effort would cost to build and sustain to let people shave a few hours off transcontinental flights? Cali can’t even build a regular train inside their own state for less than $5 billion, or whatever the overrun amounts to by now.
The groundhog day effect is so much fun.
The Hyperloop? It sounds like either a dance step or a haute couture hairstyle.
That talks about a different system that is completely airless and moves at 6500 kmh.
If this thing is above ground, it will be the easiest terror target in the world.
Fire one shot from a .50 caliber sniper rifle, even at Elon Musk's slower version, and the sudden change in air density would rip the transport pod to pieces.
Also, since there is just one “route,” I wonder if they can safely pack enough passengers into that space to make the rail line profitable? If you are traveling at 760 mph, there is zero margin for error. One mistake, and everybody within a certain radius is going to die.
Won’t help me, I have no interest in going to either of them.
If I were in NY or LA, that’s how fast I would want to leave either of them.
Merry Christmas.
It’s not my numbers, it’s the article’s/Musk’s numbers.
I wish I could leave here at the speed of light.
the cost of $6-10 billion for a 400-mile stretch of Hyperloop.
Not gonna happen.
The amount of trips require to ROI and TCO would be more than my abacus can account for...
> It would have to be about 3600 mph, average to hit your numbers. That’s getting hypersonic. I am skeptical it won’t become a boondoggle. Is it really worth the many billions of dollars the effort would cost to build and sustain to let people shave a few hours off transcontinental flights? Cali can’t even build a regular train inside their own state for less than $5 billion, or whatever the overrun amounts to by now.
Now where have I heard this snake oil sales pitch before? Hmm...oh yeah Obamacare! This is another one of those shennanigans to suck more taxpayer funds (before you say it wont you know damn well it will) that will have delay after delay and cost overruns and end up costing far more than its worth and probably not delivering. It’s probably a brother-in-law deal anyway. All I can say is that if that thing ever derails there won’t be anything left of the train except one gigantic pile of metal with body parts strewn all over the place.
Even if this ttechnology works on a commercial scale it will take 10 years at least to get permits.
Rest your brain, wasted. It's magic. Zzzzt! Bang! it's gone. Zzzzt!Bang! it reappears in a different time and space.
I'm more curious about the definition of "soon" as they use it.
Appears to me they are using the term "soon" in geologic time context.
45 minute trip. Two hours to clear security.
And willie green approved, with gov forced preference for its use of course.
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