No hyperloop competition thread? I am disappoint /sci/ spac

>>8638841
Thay are testing it now
http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop

>>8639059
Nope not yet anon, but soon

>>8638841
too expensive and potential vacuum decompression can cause a huge accident

>>8639105
Thou afe describing planes, anon. And planes are the safest medium of transport.

>>8638841
Hyperloop is not gonna happen.

>>8639111
Planes have more clearance than just a few cm. They also don't require that huge ass tube infrastructure.

>>8638841
Elon musk is the most inefficiant man in the world

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMd_QGmmkgY

> km/hr

What the FUCK is "hr"?
The abbreviation for hour is "h".
http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tcdnstyl-chap?lang=eng&lettr=chapsect1&info0=1.23

it should be km/h.

I can't trust these idiots.

I like the idea in the sense of population control.

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What are the practical use cases of a Hyperloop?

I don't have any problem with the concept itself, it seems perfectly mechanically sound, but I can't imagine the situation on the surface of the earth where it would actually be cheaper /more efficient to replace a system like this with a Hyperloop

>>8640301
There are none
It's extreme expensive, it only carries 1/100s at a time that abnormal tanker does and costs 10x more
It kills jobs and skill required jobs and it wastes more money than it uses
It's Elon musk, he's a lazy faggot who thinks he know everything he tried to invent a robot that would do his job

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>transferring huge volumes of air
>compressor
>in near vacuum

>>8640301
>What are the practical use cases of a Hyperloop?

building trains on mars

>>8640347
This isn't bad. Near-vacuum atmosphere in the first place, don't have to eminent domain or buy out or fight with 10,000 different NIMBY fags for every km of track, etc.

In fact you've already convinced me that building a Hyperloop on Mars would be much easier and more practical than building the proposed one from LA to San Francisco.

Kind of a depressing prospect, though.

>>8638841
I'll just shill Thunderfoot's videos who already did the most basic calculations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVJvpNyjdc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFesa01llk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDwe2M-LDZQ
>>8640301
>it seems perfectly mechanically sound
emphasis on "seems"

>>8638841

>Using a compresor
>In near vacuum.

Mmmmn... how is this suposed to work?

And how do you keep vacuum in something so big that is pretty much left in the open?