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It’s time to be honest about Musk’s vacuum tube to nowhere
It’s time to be honest about Musk’s vacuum tube to nowhere
The underlying idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain has been tried many times, but its simply too expensive and fragile for real-world use. A single earthquake can cripple it.
Important to say, tried many times AFTER being conceived over 100 years ago.
I feel like if the structure was above the earth, somewhere in the air between two points up in the sky it might be more interesting vs helicopters and airplanes but on earth, one big crack and it’s goners