A technology company has unveiled a plan for a high-speed tube that could shuttle passengers from New York City to Washington, D.C. in about the time it takes to get from Midtown to Lower Manhattan.
Executives from the California tech company Hyperloop One said at an event Thursday at the Newseum in Washington that they plan to connect 80 percent of the country via electromagnetic tubes, allowing for high-speed travel.
The concept was first proposed in 2013 by Elon Musk, the founder of the electric car company Tesla and the private spacecraft company SpaceX.
Hyperloop One co-founder Shervin Pishevar said the company plans to be able to move people and cargo ultra-quickly.
How…futuristic. And I suppose we’ll all be employed at Spacely Sprockets, too!
You just know that there’s some ecoweenie out there who will object to this on some grounds or another.
What if you have claustrophobia? Or suffer from motion sickness etc.?
Already been debunked.
Irate Nate, Forget Spacely sprockets. It’s Cogswell Cogs all the way.
Passengers will be referred to as sperm.
I think I saw this in a Woody Allen movie 45 years ago…
https://rachttlg.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/woody-allen-sperm-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-sex.jpg
Let’s see, now – traveling at just under the speed of sound in a metal container inside an elevated tube…
What could possibly go wrong?
🙂
Also, note that it has not worked a single time, yet. And the test set-up is less than 1/3 mile long. This could be like cold fusion.
Funny how the future seems to always involve people giving up their ability to travel independently.
Buckaroo Banzai comes to mind. Sure. Let’s build really cheap plastic tubes all over the US that will need full replacing in 20 years.
Oh, and don’t worry. There’s like absolutely no muzzies in the USA that may think of targeting them.
Let me guess … they just need some “guarantees” from the gov’t …
izlamo delenda est …
@Corona April 9, 2017 at 9:22 am
“Wherever you go, there you are.”
The real scientific hurdle they solved is no one in their right mind wants to be in New York or DC, hence it makes for the perfect segment of populace to use such a device.
Test build it in Kalifornication, the high speed train to nowhere.
The trip–20 minutes. TSA line–2 hours.
Between environmentalists, bureaucrats, and lawyers, project will never get off the ground. NOT ONE DAMN DIME from the taxpayers! Smells exactly like the Big Dig.
And..how much government meny do they want, and then end up needing?
Can you say “jihadi terrorist target” boys and girls?
As soon as I read the name Elon Musk I looked for my wallet. Elon’s specialty is getting government money instead of real sales and another specialty is looking at the future through glasses paid for by someone else. It doesn’t matter how little his connection to this company is if they succeed in getting government “startup” money the project will never really finish, will mysteriously catch fire at random times, use proven plans for rockets which still blow up, have record sales that when looked closely at are actually government money and the owners will still make themselves multi-millionaires even though their project crashed and burned (literally) and come out as acknowledged experts in the field.
Now tell me that wont be a terrorist target from 10th century savages.
More pie in the sky bullshit that will never happen, but will scam a few billions from taxpayer provided funding to go into political slush funds and law office bank accounts. Fuck this shit. Too many assholes running this country to ever count on this kind of tech ever taking hold.
How about we finish that “tube” that carries oil from Canada to the US first.
I too went on red alert seeing the name of Elon Musk. Really surprised Trump has not shut off Musk’s spigot yet. Soon as that happens, Musk is going broke. If the private sector cannot make it work, it should not happen.
As with many things, how quickly you go isn’t nearly as important as how quickly you stop.
Couldn’t you walk from DC to New York in the time it takes to get from midtown to lower Manhatten — at least by car?
Phuck if I’ll ever get in a tube again. Ever.
My last ride sucked.