Can't say I'm mad they're taxing them to high hell

convince people to quit, or not start

I can, when the money isn't going to the NHS

it's going to the tobacco companies

*ha*

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1010393272529764352 Elon wtf

falcon 10 prototypes

damn if only he'd remove the rest of the plastic covers

looks so sick

car seats?

march on rome with that shit

or seats for the hyperloop lol

Now that is a big black bloc.

they look comfy tho

Has Hyperloop been downgraded to a regular train, or is he still going on about vacuum tubes?

Why would it be a regular train?

Vaccum tubes are the whole point

Also the whole reason that makes it impractical.

nah it just makes it difficult to adjust if you have an existing transport network

but other than that, hyperloops make a lot of sense

>miles and miles of gigantic vacuum pipes across a tectonically active area
>make a lot of sense

better than track laid on the ground, my dude

having said that, still a valid concern

Do you realize there's a track inside the pipe?

yep

but the track can be suspended within the inner tube, and the tube itself can be too with a combination of suspension systems and laser ranging from one point to another to measure tolerances

obviously if anything is going through the san andreas fault when it conks, it's not going to end well

It's a great idea unless you like constant potentially deadly incidents

the vacuum principle and the safety risks are all real

I get it's space age but it can work

Even if nobody dies when the tube collapses and 1 atmosphere of air comes rushing in, pumping the air all out again, takes a lot of time and energy.

It's extremely inefficient for the speed it gives

do you have figures to cite that hotzendorf?

defo interested to see them,

not to shit on them!

Mate you're talking about miles of huge vacuum tubes

thunderf00t did a good debunk video of Hyperloop, before he contracted TDS.

just it's not my area of expertise and I've not especially bothered looking at hard test data for elon's stuff,

Do you know how much energy it takes to make vacuums?

idk if it's even been published yet

yes