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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rumor: High-speed tube travel concept in the works [View all]
Photo courtesy of ET3. A Colorado company has developed a concept for high-speed tube travel, that could allow passengers to complete an LA to New York trip in 45 minutes.
Is it really possible to travel between New York and LA in under an hour? An engineer in Colorado believes he has developed the future of travel.
TRUE: Prototypes for tube travel are complete; company searching for a test site
Imagine traveling from New York to Los Angeles in less time than it takes to get through those annoying airport security lines. Well, a company called ET3 out of Longmont, Colo., has developed a concept for the Evacuated Tube Transport, an airless, frictionless tube that can propel vehicles up to 4,000 miles per hour, effectively moving you from Los Angeles to New York in 45 minutes, all for the low, low cost of $100.
http://news.msn.com/rumors/rumor-high-speed-tube-travel-concept-in-the-works
I wish I were younger because some day this type travel might be possible.
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Which one? China and Japan have built them, and they carry millions of live passengers.
backscatter712
Jun 2013
#37
Then you have, at best, about 3 minutes to find a can when you get out at the end of the trip.
RC
Jun 2013
#77
Isn't breaking the sound barrier an issue? Concord was trouble prone for ever. n-t
Logical
Jun 2013
#12
No sound barrier to break, no air to transmit sound, no air friction to create heat
pediatricmedic
Jun 2013
#14
I am sick of these mother fucking face sucking aliens on my mother fucking tube train!
longship
Jun 2013
#38
Decelerating from 4000 mph to 0 mph in 60 seconds would generate 3.04 Gs
Gravitycollapse
Jun 2013
#29
i don't see the point of going from new york to los angeles in 45 minutes anymore. why the rush?
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#54
i started riding trains alone, with my sibs, when i was about 7, 2.5 hour trip we did regularly
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#87
hee, I checked out a train from Tampa to Minneapolis. shoot, it's like 15 hours.
GobBluth
Jun 2013
#88
I'm still waiting for the airplane-car that mag has been predicting for 60 years
BlueStreak
Jun 2013
#63
Having worked with Ultra-High-Vacuum systems before, this is impossible with current technology.
sir pball
Jun 2013
#68
Personally, I'd rather see the same engineering go into building the Space Elevator.
kentauros
Jun 2013
#86