New technology can take you around the world in 6 hours
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[QUOTE=Empty_Shadow;35619184]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]
1)If we could aquire the vacuum of space (which is like you said not total) the impact of what particles are still in there would be insignificant to the outcome.
Source: Some documentary I saw about powerless space travel using a railgun.
2) true, but you wont have to drill stright trough the core, a very deep lying tunnel would be enough if it followed the curvature of the earth. Just make sure the centrifugal force is equall to the gravity at all times to not hit the wall.
3)Cheers!
brb guys I'm just grabbing a cup of space vacuum.
[QUOTE=Empty_Shadow;35619474]brb guys I'm just grabbing a cup of space vacuum.[/QUOTE]
And by that you mean you're grabbing an amazingly empty cup!
Man... I really wish they make this a reality, then it would be so much easier to travel around the world.
[quote]...a maximum speed of 6,500 km/h...[/quote]
[t]http://i.ytimg.com/vi/A8EWaDjTW3s/0.jpg[/t]
It's so fucking [b]FAAAAAAAAAAAAAST![/b]
As interesting as it sounds over/under sea construction of these tubes would be a pain in the ass to build the channel tunnel (the tunnel that people can use to get to/from England to France) took 6 years to build nevermind one that goes from China to America.
A man can dream though...
[QUOTE=Rapist;35619485]And by that you mean you're grabbing an amazingly empty cup![/QUOTE]
Ultra-pessimistic, now you can't even argue that there's air in it!
Man I'd fucking go to Sweden for schooling if these things existed.
And Oktoberfest.
I fucking love science.
[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]
Imagine getting hit by one...
I'm fairly sure it would be loud as hell in that, so listening to music would be next to impossible.
Any transport where you cannot enjoy music is useless.
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[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]
Those are so safe. :downs:
[QUOTE=download;35618851]Having a vacuum tube that goes around the world will be massive technical challenge[/QUOTE]
And we've said that in the past and succeeded.
[QUOTE=WittyUsername;35619413]OF COURSE the first is going to be buggy[/QUOTE]
Concorde or any other aviation method (or actually even any transportation method!) cannot be thought of in the same way as code. You don't get "buggy" planes - the amount of engineering and checking and re-checking that goes into something that has the potential to harm humans is unbelievable. They don't just go "Oh yeah sorry, Concorde V1 had a little bug on release - we're working on a patch" - people died, unlike some buggy software
In addition to this, the Concorde was becoming dated. It was advanced for it's time, but by the time they retired it, they were getting pretty old. It wasn't just the crash that made them scrap it, but it did contribute - so don't blame France for doing something that would have been done to any other plane anyway
Also my point was that the video was not claiming to be the first to make such great travel times
[QUOTE=ThePinkPanzer;35619612]Imagine getting hit by one...[/QUOTE]
you'd literally be shattered into 1000000000000000000000000 little bits
wouldn't an earthquake screw it over?
Although there are many high points, it's possible for someone to attack the pipe in the middle of the ocean sending the passengers into the water.
The technology is sound but the fact that the requirements to build such a thing to transport so little people, seems kind of a "forget that" concept.
Just like the "non-stop" train concept. Which actually looked fun.
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Also I'm fairly sure this concept was in a bond movie.
[QUOTE=AK'z;35619771]Although there are many high points, it's possible for [B]someone to attack the pipe in the middle of the ocean sending the passengers into the water. [/B]
The technology is sound but the fact that the requirements to build such a thing to transport so little people, seems kind of a "forget that" concept.
Just like the "non-stop" train concept. Which actually looked fun.
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Also I'm fairly sure this concept was in a bond movie.[/QUOTE]
This is why we can't have nice things.
There's always somebody there to piss in our Cheerios.
[QUOTE=AK'z;35619656]I'm fairly sure it would be loud as hell in that, so listening to music would be next to impossible.
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Considering it's a vacuum, I'm pretty sure there might not be any sound at all. Especially comapred to our current explosion-powered forms of transportation.
[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]
The gravitation toward the center of the Earth near the core is so strong you'd need one hell of a vacuum cleaner to pull something out from there.
The initial momentum would get pretty far (as in nowhere nearly enough) but eventually you'd be stuck in Earth's core forever.
Did I mention the pressure is something like 3.3 million times higher than at the surface? And the temperature is 5430 degrees Celsius?
If you ever find a way to travel a manned vessel str8 thru the Earth and have every man come out without harm, you'll be a very rich motherfucker.
[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...[/QUOTE]
maybe you missed the whole time when a piece of metal left on the tracks by another airplane got flung into its wings and kerosene tank because it accidentally rolled over it which would end in a desaster for virtually every single fucking plane that has kerosene tanks in its wings (virtually every single fucking plane)
good job
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[QUOTE=AK'z;35619656]
Those are so safe. :downs:[/QUOTE]
As safe as any plane. Idiot.
[QUOTE=Isuzu;35620195]
As safe as any plane. Idiot.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Air_France_Flight_4590.jpg[/img]
MMMM that's one safe aircraft. :downs:
[QUOTE=AK'z;35620227][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Air_France_Flight_4590.jpg[/img]
MMMM that's one safe aircraft. :downs:[/QUOTE]
[URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_object_damage]hey you should rate me dumb again maybe that would make you look less like an idiot[/URL]
[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 think the amounts we have to explore are far too big for humans for a lot of upcoming years.
this technology has been around for awhile, it's the cost that is really stopping it from happening.
[QUOTE=AK'z;35620227][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Air_France_Flight_4590.jpg[/img]
MMMM that's one safe aircraft. :downs:[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://photogallery.sandesh.com/cms/uploadimages/Boeing-747-fire-Mumbai-airport/04092009_215449250.jpg[/IMG]??
