Then you would be wrong. Trains get away with reasonable capacity for moving people because they have big vehicles and run fewer train sets. The hyperloop vehicle, based on current renders, will require multiple small vehicles with low capacity. They will have to either have a huge stations (HA), space mountain style…

It is buried to seal it away from the water.

No. This is just more nonsense garbage coming out of the hyperloop people. I’ll just take one example here: Stockholm to Arlanda is claimed to be a three minute ride. Do you guys have any idea who physically uncomfortable those three minutes are going to be? It would be the vomit comet.

Just stop. I would put the odds of the NBA building a stadium on their own dime and gifting Seattle a team as being better than this crap.

Do you know anything about the Puget sound? The sound plunges downward to a depth of over 600 feet between Seattle and Kitsap. There is a reason that a transbay ntub in Seattle ain’t happening.

No, no, no, and fuck no. Just... did you actually think this through? A ferry can carry 5,000 passengers and 404 cars round trip per hour (Seattle to Bainbridge, Jumbo mkII). That doesn’t include the other routes.

Oh yes, Ghost in the shell is toats international. It’s just set in Japan, about a Japanese branch of the government, and everyone has Japanese names. The major could just have easily been Nigerian.

OP: Dtmfa. She doesn’t share your beliefs, full stop. You can choose between her or your beliefs, but good relationships DO NOT DEMAND THAT THE OTHER PERSON CONFORMS TO MEET YOUR WHIMS. Instead the other person is perfect (or tolerably close enough) just the way they are.

I thought it was a fun movie... until the princess of Sweden offered anal sex. As a Swede, I was offended.

Pffffft. Everone knows that we are just pushing water out to sea. There is no drought, or so I told

...uh, dude, that’s not how this thing works. When the door is shut, you place the wedge part against the bottom. When the sneak their pushes the door inward, the wedge is depressed, striking the bell and also arresting the door.

My 80s Volvo can too, but it is a driver error.

...yes, but this is a church to the tomb of... Christ. So, you know, it makes sense, like how Mecca isn’t run by Baptists.

Here is how this happened: “I love it, but I want the ships coming down from the right side. Oh, and the insignia MUST be there, or how will people know it is star trek?”

You don’t think this won’t become a public project? Ha ha ha ha ha... These billionaires are going to pull a Trump and come hat in hand (how are you going to get the ROW? Imminent domain!) and all it will do is detract from actually getting HSR built. These guys are coming in and telling you that maybe hyoerloop is…

I am all for new stuff, but not if it literally dumb and a rehash of pop mechanics covers from the 1970s. Otherwise, when investing in transportation there is a REALLY good reason why trains and planes are such staples of our system.

On the contrary, we can. There are too many obvious improbabilities for all this to actually work. Every step of the way is a stupid limitation that makes hyperloop a bad choice to alternative modes of travel. The money to build hyperloop would MUCH more effectively be spent on additional runways and HSR. Every single…

I have been telling people this for months on here. The fact is that this thing is going to suck, especially since they are not talking anywhere here about the actual physical experience of riding in it which is likely to be nausea inducing and difficult -or inaccessible- for people who are not healthy young techies.

In an ideal society, we would have a single payer healthcare system like every other modern country. We are more likely to get that before security at the airport goes away.

1. You would still have to travel to the hyperloop station, deal with security, and all the rest. Also, you don’t take into consideration stops in your scenario 30 minutes vs 3 hours is a lie.