NYC to LA in 45 minutes

[Beantown]

This could become a reality. All for around 100 bucks.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/futurama-in-real-life-high-speed-tube-transport-can-take-you-from-new-york-to-china-in-two-hours/

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/futuristic-high-speed-tube-travel-could-york-los-171007828.html

 

[Darkwing Duck]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqWuwZElgDg

 

[UGLI baby]

The Big Apple to teh Bay Area in less than an hour?

Thats retardedly fast.



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[Gameface]

I've bean down for this for a long time.

 

[MoreFeasts]

4,000 miles per hour. hmmm
yea, this will end well.

 

[Beantown]

The Big Apple to teh Bay Area in less than an hour?

Thats retardedly fast.



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I know right? And to think you were traveling by horse and buggy when you were my age.

 

[scootsy]

How reliable is this transport? Wouldn't any tiny malfunction at any point of the tube render the vacuum useless? How would you even go about finding a flaw in a 3,000 mile long tube?

 

[Deleted member 848]

This bold claim from the folks at ET3 says the technology could be available within the next decade

They better make one from Edmonton to SLC.

 

[scootsy]

They better make one from Edmonton to SLC.

Don't think it will be finished by Tuesday. We'll save a seat at Donkey Tails for you anyways.

 

[Stoked]

They should just load people into a railgun and launch them.

 

[Siro]

They should just load people into a railgun and launch them.

That's what this is. You would need a conductive container, as people's skin is a **** conductor, and you don't want them to arrive as a lump of coal. So this is the closest you'll get to railgun transportation.

Oh, and it's not happening. I literally remember this very project being discussed when I was about 10 years old. I used to fantasize about travelling across the world in a couple of hours for next to nothing. But the costs are just astronomical, specially when existing infrastructure can get you from SF to NY in about 5 hours.

 

[scootsy]

That's what this is. You would need a conductive container, as people's skin is a **** conductor, and you don't want them to arrive as a lump of coal. So this is the closest you'll get to railgun transportation.

Oh, and it's not happening. I literally remember this very project being discussed when I was about 10 years old. I used to fantasize about travelling across the world in a couple of hours for next to nothing. But the costs are just astronomical, specially when existing infrastructure can get you from SF to NY in about 5 hours.

Just curious though in regards to cost. Didn't Pres. Obama announce a $1-2 trillion dollar high speed nationwide rail system back in 2009? The report of this tube system says it would cost 1/10 or maybe 1/4 of that (sorry I can't remember which number). Wouldn't this be a better alternative?