Comment on Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit

• Lanusensei87@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is the answer to your question tho. Maglev is feasible, Hyperloop, not so much.

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And even maglev is barely done because it’s so expensive to build. Hyperloop is wrapping that same maglev train into a tube that should maintain a vacuum for kms on end, and pretty much every failure mode would end up being genuinely catastrophic.

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    • kittyjynx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Plus you would have to armor the whole thing and spend a bunch on security because one guy with a .50 rifle or some explosives could destroy a whole section and close the whole thing by punching one hole in it.

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      • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Haha, yeah. Remember the chaos when militia guys started shooting at transformers in substations? Every hick with a gun would be shooting at it just to shut it down.

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• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They gave you the only answer your stupid question deserves.

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  • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh name calling. How very thoughtful of you.

    Clearly very smert

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