swistak84 t1_j19iv6a wrote
Reply to comment by SquatchWithNoHeroes in Elon Musk posts on Weibo about how action matters more than words and gets an earful from disgruntled Chinese netizens by Saltedline
>Hyperloop CAN be realistically built.
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>But not with our current technology.
I mean technically they can be built. But never. And I mean never they would be viable or realistic.
To see why just look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz95_VvTxZM one guy with a hammer could trigger this and destroy killometers of tracks.
Party-Western7445 t1_j1bgtfz wrote
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SquatchWithNoHeroes t1_j1a22mn wrote
Obviously, the containment would be built out of concrete.
Otherwise it would be impossible, it would collapse on itself by stress alone rather quickly.
Anyway, my point is that Hyperloop is like wanting to make the concorde without making the 707 first.
And it may very well like the concorde end up being not practical.
Frankly, I don't see the need to be faster than 400km/h . That's what videoconferences are for
swistak84 t1_j1ah065 wrote
Obviously? Because none of the efforts or whitepaper tried that ...
SquatchWithNoHeroes t1_j1aj5n9 wrote
Nobody is suggesting you build it with the materials of a thin pressure vessel .
swistak84 t1_j1ak29s wrote
Literally what Musk's whitepaper suggested.
SquatchWithNoHeroes t1_j1aki7g wrote
I'm pretty sure that even that whitepaper doesn't suggest something that is meant to resist inward pressure instead of outward pressure
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