I wonder if it’ll have turrets to fend off the Biters.
That’s an interesting idea, but what is the advantage of not using rails?
My guess is it must be at capacity and there’s no space to build a parallel lane next to the tracks. This is conveyor belt so it is constantly moving in both directions with pellets being dropped back and forth. Of course rail industry has been trying to get to the “conveyor belt” idea for sometime but to have one that’s constantly moving both directions isn’t executable.
It says it can fit three cargo pods abreast, so I don’t think that’s the issue.
This is one of those things that reminds me that someone out there is probably doing something cool with that tube shipping system they built in NY forever ago and was forgotten for the most part. (It was like the bank tubes if people aren’t familiar). But traversed miles and miles of tubes! The internet one might say haha
They’re called pneumatic tubes, just FYI.
And, believe it or not, that tube system was inspired by a test tunnel for a planned pneumatic tube-based subway system that never happened.
Can’t figure out how to make chain signals work
“The roads must roll!”
Someone in Japan is a Heinlein fan.
Keep 'em rolling!
Why use the term ‘conveyor belt’? No conveyor. No belts. Automated cargo containers.
Probably to have a short quotable one liner that’s vaguely understandable by the general public (and that, as often, is false).
How long before someone packs themselves into a box for a ride, surely some american youtuber will do this.
