• New full-scale Hyperloop passenger capsule revealed
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https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hyperloop-capsule/index.html
Bröther give hyperlööps But yeh, that looks pretty neat. I look forward to eventually riding on one when i'm like 70, assuming I live that long given my alcohol consumption
She cute.
It's for when the tube inevitably spring a leak and they slam into an air pocket going close to supersonic
maybe they wanted that look
If that's a possibility then maybe it's not such a good idea. What does this have over bullet trains or the other experimental concept, magnatic trains?
Marketing.
I doubt that the inside is a perfect vacuum, so it might help a bit, especially at such high speeds.
It goes way faster than a bullet train, or at least it's intended to.
It's as close to a perfect vaccum as possible, so yeah leaks would be devastating.
Maybe they're making considerations for it being fast outside of a vacuum as well. I don't really know their plans but it would make sense to have normal tracks between short distance stops within a city and then vacuum track for the long stretches between cities.
It just seems like it'd be really expensive to build a sealed vacuum like that for several hundred miles, require constant inspection if not 24/7 patrols that oil pipelines have, and require a ton of energy to maintain that compression. Magnetic trains would also probably require a ton of energy and you'd have to design them in a way that they don't fry the electronics of everyone on board, plus a clear surface since the clearance is only a few millimeters. That said it just seems like the bullet train would be the most reliable method of deploying trains, and they're proven to work in Japan and China.
you could turn all of seano's comments into fully anonymous and we would still know exactly who it is
It's not going to be anywhere near a vacuum not to mention a 'perfect vacuum'. Basically the system will be always slowly leaking but is maintained with fans/pumps, the conditions inside the tube will be low atmosphere akin to high altitude flight. Unlike airplanes where an explosive decompression is very violent, a breach in the tubes would not be outwardly explosive, the atmosphere outside will be pulled in. The capsule would probably be jolted and turbulent, but I doubt it'd be as catastrophic as an airplane decompressing.
Low pressure, not necessarily a full on vacuum.
to be fair planes also have like a million things that can go wrong and kill everyone on board
Yeah but you don't need engineers to check the entire span of the flight path for any sign of stress or damage.
I assumed it was Jouska. Even inanimate objects turn that guy on.
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