I want high-speed rail 🫠
I can’t wait for the vactrain future.
Faster than airplanes (which are crazy fast, although we are accustomed to them) and wayyyy lower on energy-use.
Yeah, this is strictly superior to air travel. Also, just from sheer convenience perspective, these could have stations right in the city, so you don’t have to go to the airport, wait to check in, etc. for like an hour before you even get moving. Just hop on and hop off in a different city.
People have been blinded by a level of understandable Elon hate until China started working on it. The talking point was that it would be a larger evacuated space than the largest vacuum chamber ever built by NASA and therefore impossible, not considering that a very long tube is not comparable to a huge dome. You dunked on me before but I am vindicated!
People have been blinded by a level of understandable Elon hate until China started working on it.
Nah it’s been kicking around since maybe 1904: https://web.archive.org/web/20140630081422/https://black-cat-studios.com/goddardstory.pdf
Gerard K. O’Neill really popularised the idea in the 1970s
Meanwhile in Canada we’re still using diesel trains, but don’t worry! In another decade or so they will be scheduled more frequently!
President Xi, My name is Sleve McDichael. I am 12 years old. I live in America where we have no high speed rail. My country yearns for freedom. Please send Chengdu J-20 Multirole Stealth Fighter Aircraft.
what if they send armored 4000kp/h trains. Bet you no one in the US is prepared for that
I like how the shape is essentially the same as like a 1930s art deco streamlined locomotive.
