Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit::The company is selling assets, laying off remaining employees.

    • Lanusensei87
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      1 year ago

      It is the answer to your question tho. Maglev is feasible, Hyperloop, not so much.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
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        And even maglev is barely done because it’s so expensive to build. Hyperloop is wrapping that same maglev train into a tube that should maintain a vacuum for kms on end, and pretty much every failure mode would end up being genuinely catastrophic.

        • Kitty Jynx
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          Plus you would have to armor the whole thing and spend a bunch on security because one guy with a .50 rifle or some explosives could destroy a whole section and close the whole thing by punching one hole in it.

          • jonne@infosec.pub
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            Haha, yeah. Remember the chaos when militia guys started shooting at transformers in substations? Every hick with a gun would be shooting at it just to shut it down.

    • WhatAmLemmy
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      1 year ago

      They gave you the only answer your stupid question deserves.

      • Mojojojo1993
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        Oh name calling. How very thoughtful of you.

        Clearly very smert