Comment by darawk
9 years ago
> The Hyperloop was supposed to be a revolutionary form of transport, turns out it was overblown.
He didn't launch the Hyperloop, though. He explicitly said he wasn't personally going to pursue it, he was just putting the idea out there. You can't put the fact that it hasn't yet been implemented (even though there are people working on it) on him. I've seen no evidence that the concept is infeasible, or poorly thought out.
It is infeasible, if it's going to be vacuum, for a pile of practical and safety reasons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFesa01llk
Maybe it will pivot into something not-as-originally-hyped by the same name.
Thunderf00t always comes up in these discussions - here's a counter video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx52A-v65Q8
What a terrible video. "I can't imagine anybody can make this work, so it is absolutely impossible"
Did you miss the bit where he says the idea of travelling fast in a vacuum is fundamentally sound and workable?
Did you miss the bit where he never at all claimed it was 'impossible', only that it was bullshit that it would be doable within two orders of magnitude of the claimed price, with the claimed speed advantages, or with any acceptable amount of safety?
What a terrible misrepresentation of the video.
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