New technology can take you around the world in 6 hours - Polidicks

[quote=Source]Evacuated Tube Transport is an airless, frictionless, maglev-like form of transportation which is safer, cheaper and quieter than trains or airplanes. Six-person capsules travel in the tubes and can reach a maximum speed of 6,500 km/h, and provide 50 times more transportation per kwh. A tube can travel from New York to Beijing in two hours, and make a round-the-world trip in just six hours. [/quote] Source: [URL]http://newsdirect.nma.com.tw/SingleItem.aspx?asset_id=OEM_20120417_OINT_007_v1[/URL] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McpWcn-1RZU[/media] Pretty fucking awesome if you ask me.

I wonder how a claustrophobic person would handle that.

[QUOTE=Atwal;35618704]I wonder how a claustrophobic person would handle that.[/QUOTE] I'd imagine they would be slightly bigger than that.

One can always hope... [editline]18th April 2012[/editline] It'd be like any 1950's imagination of the future.

New? I saw this in the Polar Express years ago. :v:

Fucking make it happen.

It's funny, New York to Beijing would take the same amount of time it takes me to get to and back from school every day. :v: You could literally commute China-USA every day.

And the world grows ever smaller :(

Does it go on a form of rail? Because if it doesn't, what happens if it starts spinning?

Oh please make it possible. I would love to visit my dad once every day or so. Sucks having him live across the world.

[QUOTE=Derp Y. Mail;35618763]Does it go on a form of rail? Because if it doesn't, what happens if it starts spinning?[/QUOTE] I would assume there is some kinda stabilization system. I hope.

[img]http://www.champaignschools.org/central/business/johnson/4thfa2009/sband/tube.jpg[/img] ???

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;35618760]And the world grows ever smaller :([/QUOTE] A) Why is that bad? B) We've barely explored 50% of the Earth, almost none of the deep sea or the thickest jungles. C) Space exists and we're slowly moving in the right direction. Things are good.

Having a vacuum tube that goes around the world will be massive technical challenge

Hahaha what bullshit. Randomly made up "data" and a video. Frictionless...yeah

[QUOTE=Killuah;35618897]Frictionless...yeah[/QUOTE] Maglev, woo! Superconductors galore. Only resisting force will be air resistance.

Make something like this happen soon. I'd love to be able to travel to other parts of the world for a day and then come back at the end of the day.

[QUOTE=mac338;35618907]Maglev, woo! Superconductors galore. Only resisting force will be air resistance.[/QUOTE] I don't think you know anything about superconductors and how fucking expensive even a few km of track would be. Germany tried it with trains so there are not even vaccuum tubes, costed billions and there weren't even any real safety measures. [editline]18th April 2012[/editline] "Transportation per kwh" hahaha

[QUOTE=Atwal;35618704]I wonder how a claustrophobic person would handle that.[/QUOTE] Ever watched one of the "SAW" movies? There ya go :I

Imagine what happens when the capsule is breached. Seems pretty safe though considering there's no person driving.

Can't wait for one of the prototypes to spring a leak, explode and damn the entire project to hell because people are terrified of technology.

You dont even need power or maglev for this. If you would drill a hole straight trough the earth, suck it vacuum and drop a car into it it would come out of the other side and stop exactly at the height you dropped it from. Long live gravity.

[QUOTE=taipan;35619163]You dont even need power or maglev for this. If you would drill a hole straight trough the earth, suck it vacuum and drop a car into it it would come out of the other side and stop exactly at the height you dropped it from. Long live gravity.[/QUOTE] 1) Perfect vacuums are impossible. Even space isn't a true vacuum. 2) Drilling through the earth and developing a tunnel the whole way through it would consume FAR more energy than making an aboveground track between the two points 3) You crazy.

[QUOTE=taipan;35619163]You dont even need power or maglev for this. If you would drill a hole straight trough the earth, suck it vacuum and drop a car into it it would come out of the other side and stop exactly at the height you dropped it from. Long live gravity.[/QUOTE] Even as a thought experiment: No it wouldn't since you'd have to drill that hole exactly through the spinning axis of earth since any other way would cause the capsule to hit the wall of the tunnel as you'd change moment of torque of that capsule.

4038.912748 mph (although I doubt it will go that high) and they're able to maintain 1g? Impressive.

[QUOTE=mac338;35618801]A) Why is that bad? B) We've barely explored 50% of the Earth, almost none of the deep sea or the thickest jungles. C) Space exists and we're slowly moving in the right direction. Things are good.[/QUOTE] I didn't mean it as a bad thing really, it's just a bit sad when you think about it.

Oh, look. We can travel around the world in 6 hours. AGAIN. [img]http://www.mv-experience.com/info/images/stories/concorde_1994-500.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=WittyUsername;35619313]Oh, look. We can travel around the world in 6 hours. AGAIN. [img]http://www.mv-experience.com/info/images/stories/concorde_1994-500.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Maybe you missed the whole time when it failed catastrophically and they stopped using them? The video isn't claiming to be the first thing in the world to offer such travel times... [editline]18th April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Sodisna;35619297]4038.912748 mph (although I doubt it will go that high) and they're able to maintain 1g? Impressive.[/QUOTE] You can go as fast as you like and still have 1g The 'g' is acceleration (relative to the Earth's gravitational pull), so my guess is these things accelerate really slowly Did you never wonder why you weren't thrust to the back of a plane/train while it was moving, only on take off? :v:

[QUOTE=Trumple;35619344]Maybe you missed the whole time when it failed catastrophically and they stopped using them? The video isn't claiming to be the first thing in the world to offer such travel times... [editline]18th April 2012[/editline] You can go as fast as you like and still have 1g The 'g' is acceleration (relative to the Earth's gravitational pull), so my guess is these things accelerate really slowly Did you never wonder why you weren't thrust to the back of a plane/train while it was moving, only on take off? :v:[/QUOTE] Obviously you know so little about Concorde. Yes, it failed, but it could of been very easily fixed and made safe. What France and the other EU countries that didn't want it failed to realize was that it was the first of its kind. OF COURSE the first is going to be buggy, it would be stupid to think it would be perfect. The engineers behind Concorde had a fix for it, but BA pulled the plug on it because France cried that it was dangerous. This is literally like banning fire because one person got burnt. TL;DR - France ruined everything.

[QUOTE=Wablur;35618780][img]http://www.champaignschools.org/central/business/johnson/4thfa2009/sband/tube.jpg[/img] ???[/QUOTE] Damn it, I was going to post that too :v: