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The way to travel in the future
Evacuated Tube Transport could take you around the world in just 6 hours
Posted 12 years ago by boyt in category: technology
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Matt (guest) - 12 years ago [ Reply ]
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How would this thing slow down?

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Guest (guest) - 12 years ago [ Reply ]
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Evacuated meaning evacuated like the space right soo this would be using the same technology as the space shuttle? how would this make it financially feasible?

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Calculus (guest) - 12 years ago [ Reply ]
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"it can be build for..." Ok, maybe it can be build for a fraction of the cost for a railroad system. But you would only build a tube. The main cost is to run this thing. You have to evacuate the whole tube system. You have run the magnet system, and so on. And building a tube, across an ocean, r u srs? It would have to withstand the preassure, the tides and earthquakes. Why not make it simple and build a bridge vom europe to america?

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Titan (guest) - 12 years ago
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  it would have the same effect as building the tube. the pillars supporting the bridge trough the ocean would face the same problems: earthquakes tidal movements, pressure etc. this person has a pretty good idea just needs more thinking thats all.. 
Calculus (guest) - 12 years ago
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  The example of building a bridge across an ocean, was just to show that it quite impossible to build a vacuum tube system across oceans. But it is interesting, that you thought it would be a serious suggestion to build a bridge. ;-) 
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  lol i know but it is pretty interesting but saw it on a show called mega engineering.. they are/were thinking about building a bridge that connected Europe to US thats the only reason why I considered the bride idea  

john (guest) - 12 years ago [ Reply ]
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The military has been using these for years to get to underground bases. Look it up.

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Thule (guest) - 12 years ago
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  Why should they build underground bases? In a case of emergency, they use the nazi ufo to get to antarctica an to the inside of our hollow earth.  

4forpengs - 12 years ago [ Reply ]
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meh, so many things could screw this thing up so badly.

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