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"At the end of the day I just want to know who’ll be responsible when the tube collapses and people get seriously hurt or worse. Can’t say I didn’t warn you guys."

Problem 1: Thermal Expansion Problem 2: Vacuum Problem 3: Scale Problem 4: Energy Requirements / Cost Problem 5: Deceleration Problem 6: Acceleration

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There were plenty of voices saying this when Elon put out that whitepaper in 2013. We've known for a century that's its a dead end, we didn't need to spend a decade learning that again.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Elon didn’t start hyper loop because he thought it would be successful. He started it to kill California’s high speed rail plans.

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