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

[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] That was the result of shitty luck aka fucking DC-10s leaving debris all over runways.

If I had the money, I'd invest in high-speed maglev or hypersonic aircraft before I invested in an oversized pneumo system.

[QUOTE=WittyUsername;35619413]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] Wasn't really Concorde's fault for the one that crashed, the only fatal incident Concorde had. A piece of Debris was on the runway from the previous aircraft that took off, which the Concorde ran over, it got kicked up into the wings. It could have happened to any aircraft. The main reason they were retired was because they were just too expensive. Too expensive to fly on so there were low passenger numbers, especially after the crash, and too expensive to maintain. They flew for about 30 years though, with the one fatal incident, which wasn't even Concorde's fault. Pretty solid aircraft if you ask me

[QUOTE=Bobie;35626486]the reason the concorde stopped being used was actually because its running costs were higher than the income it made, not because of its safety as the media made it out to be at the time.[/QUOTE] That's what I said two posts before. [editline]19th April 2012[/editline] Fair enough, concorde was a breakthrough in air travel. Business wise, it was a poor, uninteresting model. Also I'm not too keen on crashing at three times the speed of a normal aircraft.

If this thing is made, then finally I can explore the world without worrying about time or anything like that. I'd bet that it would cost a lot to use one of those things, much like the cost of an airplane was back in the past, but with common use, it will decrease. Damnit, I can not wait for the next 40 years!!

How is this new technology? I saw a video by AlienScientist where he talked about this 2 years ago. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03kVU2FYl6U[/media]

[QUOTE=AK'z;35619656]Those are so safe. :downs:[/QUOTE] Throughout its entire flight record it crashed [I]once[/I] of course, because it was the first of its kind that's all it took for the public to shit its pants [editline]19th April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Isuzu;35620245][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] It wasn't damaged by a foreign object I guess when its tyres ruptured the rubber was a foreign object for a split second before it hit the gas tank

[QUOTE=wewt!;35634059]Throughout its entire flight record it crashed [I]once[/I] of course, because it was the first of its kind that's all it took for the public to shit its pants [/QUOTE] Well there were only 14 in service over the 29 years of flight. Compare that to the number of airliners in service that. It sounds dumb, but the statistics speak for themselves, however small they are.

What about terrorism? What's keeping ''bad people'' from fucking the tube roads up?

Now let's hope that they actually do this.

[QUOTE=Tosas;35634212]What about terrorism? What's keeping ''bad people'' from fucking the tube roads up?[/QUOTE] The same thing that keeps terrorists from fucking roads and planes up.

[QUOTE=Region;35631065]I'm claustrophobic. Even planes fucking scare me. It's just the feeling of not being able to get out :/[/QUOTE] you stay at home then

[QUOTE=AK'z;35619656] Those are so safe. :downs:[/QUOTE] After hearing about the Pakistan jet crash I want to apologize for this comment. :(

[QUOTE=_NewBee;35637255]The same thing that keeps terrorists from fucking roads and planes up.[/QUOTE] Planes have security that you need to go through to get in one. Roads? Dude, if some crazy dude had explosives and ran to the nearest road way to blow it up to damage the road itself, what's stopping him? It's pointless, of course, but if the tube ways are gonna get built, I dont know what kind of protection would it need to have to prevent hull breach and shit at some random location. I'm not talking about sneaking bombs into the ridable capsules.