Demand a hyperloop

Facts:
• Americans spend about $300B per year on domestic airplane tickets.
• In the USA, there are ~50,000 miles of interstate highway.
• Hyperloop construction costs are about $10-15M/mile
• Cost of travel over arbitrary distances is ~$20
• Average domestic airline ticket is $400
• Number of flights: 700 million
So from these figures we can deduce:
• switching from air travel to hyperloop saves 700M * ($400-$20) = ~$250B / year
• building a hyperloop system as extensive as the interstate highway costs 50,000 * $15M = $750B
The pay off time is ~3 years.

The 700M domestic flights is demand at a price of $400. If you can get an equivalent service at $20, obviously demand goes way up. Perhaps another 700M people value "airline" tickets at $200 but not $400. In that case, economic benefits would also include $700M * ($200-$20). Start adding this into your pay off and you are getting closer to 1-2 years.

When you start taking a closer look, it gets better. For example, the airline industry is highly toxic. We still use leaded gas in planes and people living near airports have much high rates of developmental problems, lower IQs, etc. Humanitarian catastrophe plus tens of billions in damage every year we can do away with.

Consideration of these sorts of things make the ROI on a hyperloop start looking like something around 100% (one year pay off) pretty quick. No brainer kind of thing.

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>hyperloop literally:

hit the side of the tube with a hammer, billions of dollars worth of property damage caused instantly and everyone in the tube killed by 100 ton air mass wrecking the passenger cylinders apart and turning people into ketchup

What's a hyperloop? Like a helicopter?

Maglev. In a vacuum tube. Much faster, much more efficient.

>hit the side of the tube with a hammer,

Are you serious? Found the airline shill.

K but only if the goverment doesn't build it

Yeah just Googled the hyperloop. Fuck that, the religion of peace would have it shut down within a week

Then multiply the costs by 5x, because you can't go along an existing right of way, or use eminent domain.

>be nigger from Detroit
>commits robbery in Detroit, New York, Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago
>All in one day
>thankshyperloop.jpg

>Are you serious? Found the airline shill.

Go youtube mytbusters episode of vacuum railcar.

One dent and whole thing folds up like wet cardboard.

Literally a strong hammer hit is enough to kill everyone in the loop, never mind actual weapons. And the whole tube would be vulnerable and unguarded on the ground.

Go google images of the ready hyperloop tube pieces, they have literal metal spokes in them during storage to prevent malformation DURING STORAGE when NOT under pressure

is this the hot new space elevator meme?

We can't even maintain oil pipelines. We are not responsible enough for this type of technology.

>be on hyperloop in California
>get hit by earthquake
>every one literally fucking DIES

>have Alaska Airlines credit card
>charge everything
>pay off balance every month
>have 87,000 miles in mileage plan
>go everywhere on vacation

There are already passenger trains with hundreds of people running every day all across the country, and no one has done this. Weird, isn't it? Almost like the government is behind most of the terrorism?

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It's not 100% vacuum, for exactly this reason.

That's high praise.

Facts.. Hyperloop is even more unworkable than the solar roadways scam.. Anyone with any understanding of physics and engineering laughs at it..

a hyperloop would implode under the force of the vacuum as soon as it got a dent.

If there's an accident like a fuckin bird bumping into it and making a little dent... The whole thing is fuckes.

>Anyone with any understanding of physics and engineering laughs at it..

Then you must not understand physics or engineering, because you can't explain anything wrong with it.

And yet, we maintain massive rail networks and giant flying machines with almost no accidents.

That simply is not true.

4 people now claiming that tiny forces incapable of even harming the structural integrity of the exterior would somehow kill everyone?

Not gonna be in our lifetime. We've got an I impending world war to piss money away on.

It will happen when we reject stupid wars and demand change.

There's too much money to be made from wars, and too many greedy fucks. Look at both the US and UK's history. You forgetting you're in /pol?

Are you going to excuse that? Or demand change? Grow some fucking balls.