nice to see these stupid fucking pod-based "innovations" getting more pushback these days. couple of years ago it was insufferable with how much people would soy over that kinda shit
When your planning definitely takes natural landforms into account.
It's not failed, Musk is a great advertiser for his finance speculation bullshit like Theranos (which makes me extremely suspicious at radlibs who think he's "saving the environment")
Musk isn't even betting big on Hyperloop, he hasn't even proposed building one with "his" (=the investors) money. He just remembered the concept of Vactrain from when he was young and he wants someone to build it for some weird reason.
www.elonmusk.today
Dude's been taking Ls since 2017 at this point
172 days since Elon Musk explained bitcoin helps solve climate change by burning coal. (4/22/2021)
152 days since Elon Musk explained bitcoin helps cause climate change by burning coal. (5/12/2021)
pure grift
I love how he said that Tesla won't need any fresh capital from this point forward. The stock jumped because he said this, then Tesla went back to the markets for ~$20 BILLION of fresh capital only a year later and the stock jumped even more, since this means that Tesla has the money for "world domination" now. Nothing matters. It is all fake.
Indentured Brain Servant
458 days since Elon Musk said that people who get brain surgery from him could pay for it with augmented brain powers. (7/10/2020)
"Earning power post augmentation would easily pay for itself (if that’s even necessary). This is the best thing I can think of to ensure that collective human will decides the future."
Elon Musk living in your head and charging you for the privilege.
Lmao fucking wild
I'm just glad it's never going to come to fruition
I came up with the same idea when I was 12 and even then I knew it would require that I had infinite money and total dictatorial power.
Just build trains instead
Holy shit are those few cities actually 80% of the population
Knowing Elon, he's probably counting anything within 500 miles of any point on the track to be "connected"
Pretty sure not even Jeff Bezos could afford to excavate those thousands of miles of tunnels
Just connect DC to Atlanta with a straight line, and Dallas to Phoenix. Don't bother connecing any cities in between, what would be the point of that? Just drill tunnels through endless rock just to connect two cities!
But! You want to travel from San Diego to Phoenix? SLC to Denver? Easy! Just go in a huge circle, or "loop", if you will, three times the distance you're actually going.
Some of the cities are in the wrong places lol
Phoenix is more south for example
hyperloop is pretty cool actually, ngl. ofc it's impractical and stupid, but my child brain can't help being wowed by the tech. i nearly applied for a hyperloop pod designers' team at my uni
