>Imagine traveling from New York to Los Angeles in only 21 minutes-by train. Impossible? A maglev system operating underground in a vacuum tube would have virtually no limit to its speed, with no steel-on-rail friction and no aerodynamic resistance. At a steady rate of acceleration, the passenger leaving New York would feel a gentle acceleration pull for about half the trip, then a steady deceleration. And this at an average speed of about 8,500 miles per hour!
larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1986/eirv13n04-19860124/eirv13n04-19860124_014-opening_the_age_of_electromagnet. pdf
Easton Jenkins
Is it possible that Lyndon LaRouche is not a kook and is in fact a genius far ahead of his time, as his supporters insist?
Austin Flores
you cant have nice things like that with muslims around, sorry bro
Austin Butler
p1
Justin Peterson
If we can have planes we can have hyperloop which is safer against terrorist attacks than flying.
Dominic Martin
The future is now
William Stewart
I talked to LaRouche people when I was at the university of washington because they had a booth on campus with a huge photo of Obama with a Hitler 'stache. Was hilarious. Then the lady started saying inane crazy people stuff and I looked them up on Youtube and it was very cult-ish. They still call me occasionally to this day 1 year later
Parker Green
>with a huge photo of Obama with a Hitler 'stache
They had this outside my uni too, right next to a picture of Putin that was captioned, "This is a leader"
Cooper Cruz
i wonder what a disaster involving this would look like
Dominic Moore
dude that would be fukken awesome
Ryan Bell
Putin is a leader. He has over 80% approval ratings in Russia. Who do you think is a good leader? Obama and David Cameron?
Chase King
>train going 8,500 mph in a vaccuum tube
>plant bomb somwhere in tube >destroy vacuum >train gets slightly misaligned as it travels through the tube >slight magnetic misalignment at 8,500 mph
I think you can use your imagination on what that would look like.
Alexander Thompson
Futurama is starting to happen.
Josiah Foster
Metal on metal grinding, sparks, rapid deceleration, several people killed.
Compare with a bomb on a plane, plane goes down, 300+ people dead.
No comparison.
Julian Cook
Remember when Sadam won 100% back to back baby????
Oliver Harris
metal liquification. It would be over quick.
If the tunnel was in bedrock it wouldn't' be that big a deal, just repair the tunnel and lay some more track.
Xavier Bennett
Remember when Russia was not the same country as Iraq and comparing the two proved nothing?
Carter Martinez
sounds cool, until mohammed blows it up
Liam Sanchez
The train would be obliterated my dude
Brody Clark
>over 80% approval ratings And you believe it?
Nathan Richardson
You know what inspires me? Sending maglev trains to the moon! Teaching African peasants JavaScript!
Ryan Foster
>I think you can use your imagination on what that would look like.
They would be human paste.
However, how is that different from a plane going down? Less toasted remains?
Also, that's assuming the tech would ever get to that idealized point, which it would not. But let's say it lets trains compete with or exceed flights as a mode of transport on distance. That would be interesting.
Hell, just having this tech and moving ONLY FREIGHT would pay major dividends. Every penny saved on transport is dollars off the final cost of a product.
Adam Diaz
If a plane goes down, you lose a plane If one of those trains moving at that speed were to have an accident you'd ruin your tube.
The energy involved is huge
Adrian Stewart
What makes this different from a plane accident is the fact that a hyperloop has many more points of attack.
When you want to attack the plane, you only really have the plane itself to plant a bomb in.
If you want to attack the hyperloop, you don't have to just place the bomb on the train, you can place it anywhere on the miles long tracks.
That in itself increases the risk of attack by a large magnitude.
Zachary Price
Unless the bomb is triggered exactly as the train passes nothing would happen except damage to the tube. Even if the train were passing each track section is connected in parallel so there is a good chance levitation could be maintained and loss of life would not be nearly as severe as a bomb on a plane. People posting here about a bomb causing instantaneous loss of levitation and immediate deceleration turning people into paste don't have a clue how maglev works.
Jaxson Hill
Not even close. As I said, huge friction and damage on the body of the train and the track, rapid deceleration. Anyone not buckled up would go flying. There would be loss of life, but it would not be nearly as bad as a bomb on a plane.
Elijah Perry
>people in a vacuum
Asher Roberts
You would ruin a section of a tube which would have to be rebuilt. Not insignificant, but not your entire tube ruined.
Oliver King
>replacing buried tube is easy
meanwhile the entire system is jammed up trying to route around the damage...and thats assuming you HAVE multiple lines to divert to. And don't forget the concerns of the familys with regards to remains, and the investigation that will also hold up repairs.
As another poster said, can't have nice things with muslims
Tyler Miller
Because each tube has several tracks and track switching is a thing. We have buried tubes right now, its called a subway. What we shut down all subways because of muslims? Did you fall on your head?
Matthew Reed
subways don't travel at 8500mph and are tremendously less technologically complicated.
you're imagining we'll just dig up the bad section and put some premade piece back in but by its very nature of being new and innovative, it will be complicated.