Archived Elon Musks Hyperloop to Break Ground: 5 Things to Know (news.nationalgeographic.com)
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[–] Tor1 [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Hopefully they'll at least build working prototypes. Even if they could get a 15 inch diameter one to work. You could send baby Kal-el halfway around the world in 17 hours. Hyperadoptions to the highest world wide bidder.
Fresh food and produce would be available from everywhere in the world. Exotic pets available from anywhere in the world.
You call up China, a few hours later, you'll have whatever you want custom built and delivered to you for a great price.
Pollution would be greatly reduced, you no longer need to go anywhere. Whatever you want can be sent to you wherever you are right now.
[–] larebil 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago (edited ago)
My claustrophobic nightmare just came true. Being in a small tube, lying down, for 17 hours. What you are describing with quick delivery is already possible now, with jetplanets, helicopters, drones, whatnot. But it's really expensive. The question is what will the cost of transport be with this 'device'.
[–] Tor1 [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Substantial initial cost. Supposedly very nearly free operationally. Solar powered everything or as much as possible. We'll see of course.
All kinds of things are already possible. But there is a huge industry in being a middleman. And being a regional authority. So everything is fractured and needlessly complicated and congested.
Cost in most things is politically arbitrary and greatly skewed. In Venezuela gas is 2 cents a liter. In Libya it's 14 cents. In Norway its $2.01 per liter. In Hong Kong it's $1.98. There's little rhyme or reason to what costs are. Just whatever the oligarchs can get away with really.
If you wanted to send a physical letter to someone in each country of the world, could you do it. At what cost. In what time frame. Virtual delivery times and costs have become quite reasonable. Physical delivery times are still astronomical, and absurdly complicated.
My claustrophobia has to do with arbitrary strangers confining me to very few options and ridiculous prices. Most don't acknowledge my condition as a real malady. They say: "be reasonable, we're all masters and slaves over everyone else because it's all for our own good."
Very few people are even working on a treatment. My nightmare never ends, but only grows as more and more rules and limits magically appear and become binding rules I can't avoid. They're claims that these rules are good, are hype, and totally without substance.