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

• jonne@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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