there's some kind of Hyperloop competition going on this weekend at SpaceX and they have a livestream that just started
no idea what to expect
what do you think
Hyperloop
Dominic Baker
Isaiah Cox
lots of prerecorded stuff
Luke Bennett
3 launches to go with 35 minute pauses each, because they need to pump out the air..
Liam Murphy
one girl has a pod with a compressor on the front..
how the fuck it's useful in near vacuum?
Asher Bell
>vacuum tube
>a fucking turbine
FUCKING SERIOUSLY
Brandon Rivera
>when it doesn't work
>wahh patriarchy broke me pod!
kek
Anthony Gutierrez
what a fag
Parker Murphy
were any one of the pods launched yet?
Levi Peterson
That was the original hyperloop cpncept IDIOTS.
Ethan Perez
nope, still waiting
Zachary Morgan
Why all the aerodynamic designs
Cameron Smith
Can't wait for it to fail.
Benjamin Foster
can't wait to see those things crushed in thousand pieces because of shit structural integrity
Levi Murphy
what do you mean the idea is brilliant? it will revolutionize the transportation!
Elon is genius!
Oliver Young
...
Justin Russell
TUUUUUBES!
Samuel Barnes
first contestant, finally
Nolan Nelson
DOESNT WORK
Ayden Carter
You forgot to add the hypertube compressor and nosecone assembly with Sup Forums logo. hurry! Redraw it so we can enter the compo.
Brandon Miller
Well it just did faggot
Christian Fisher
so i dont understand, are they just prepping to run it or what
Matthew Kelly
Sup Forums tier hyperloop prototype
Gabriel Ramirez
Because the tube isn't 100% vacuum, its something like 1000x lower pressure than normal. Air drag is still significant at hyperloop speeds
Source: I was at the TU Delft hyperloop design presentation
Asher Sanchez
>barely 100 km/h
>air drag is non neglegible
Grayson Bailey
>hyperloop
>100km/h
What are you smoking user?
Hunter Wood
The run they just did hit 93km/h
These are low-speed test runs as proof of concept designs
Gabriel Phillips
So? Do you think they create a separate design for the low speed tests? These tests are really useful to see if their design matches their calculated efficiency
Angel Turner
>These are low-speed test runs as proof of concept designs
>as proof of concept designs
>proof of concept
Angel Nelson
i think its 0.5 psi
but each team can set it to their specs. one has it at 10psi
Grayson Foster
>that mixed couple
oy
Adam Martin
You do PoC runs to see if your design works, and this includes measuring P/v data. The aerodynamic shape is an important factor here. And again you only want to design a hull once and not waste your time with redoing it later
Joseph Scott
It's a trade off between drag on the vehicle and energy cost of the pumps. Pretty interesting to see the difference between all the teams
Noah Cook
But how are they verifying the concept if they aren't doing it at sonic velocities? What about scaling laws, reynolds numbers, and mach numbers?
Nathan Allen
I am going to guess they did already simulate aerodynamics in software and wind tunnels that already exist for airplanes?
Nolan Reyes
Except this won't work in wind tunnels that exist for airplanes. The boundary condition with the tunnel and ground is different. You would need very strange wind tunnel to test this, one where all the walls moved.
>>simulate aerodynamics in software
they did, but that's not enough for a verification
Mason Hernandez
>It's out again
ree
Isaac Hernandez
Looks like it's going in now, this time for sure. Enough with the teasing
Benjamin Thomas
aww yeah they're wrenching it down now.
Angel Flores
Next up tube depressurization. It's slow.
Can you feel the hum of the vacuum pumps Sup Forums? Can you feel it?
David Barnes
about 30 minutes now Sup Forums. Yeah depressurize that tube baby. Suck that air real good.
Luis Evans
SUCC
Jason Baker
it's a big tube
Luke Bennett
For you.
Angel Edwards
And there we have it folks, fail.
Camden Reed
Did it reach the speed it wanted to, and then stop after breaking the record? Or did it stop in the middle because it failed?
Brody Richardson
German team deserves the win
Tyler Bailey
I think Delft exceeded their original record just before they broke down.
Jordan Russell
Also, what was the white gas appearing behind the pod?
Ethan Parker
The pusher is diesel powered
Carter Johnson
MiT bamboozles everybody once again.
Cameron Clark
>his face when
Kevin Jones
Hyperloop is just another Elon Musk scam designed to separate taxpayers from their money.
WATCH IS BEING DESTROYED AND UTTERLY DEBUNKED!
Daniel Parker
I love Thunderfoot, but I still want to believe in this project.
Adam Turner
Le Reddit innovation award
Caleb Nguyen
the bulk of his arguments are with the pipes themselves.
Ask any petroleum engineer who specializes in piping to watch the video and he will probably smash the computer in anger
we KNOW how to make pipes. We know how to make them safe. We know how to make them work with the hyperloop design.
The piping should be the LEAST of the worries.
It's two model s motors with a battery pack
Jackson Parker
>I love Thunderfoot, but I still want to believe in this project.
believing in it won't make it happen. It will just make us all poorer since opportunity cost is high and we won't get high-speed train (which works),
LA Times explains how Musk makes money:
latimes.com
He's found a way to make money through gullibility of sci-fi fans and pseudo-scientists.
Anthony Adams
COMPRESSOR CONFIRMED FOR FASTEST. MAGLEV FAGS ON SUICIDE WATCH.
Jace Roberts
GERMAN ENGINEERING. WAS THERE EVER ANY DOUBT?