The hyperloop is dead for real this time::Hyperloop One is shutting down its operations. The company was founded in 2014 promising pods that would carry passengers at airline speeds through nearly airless tubes. Turns out, it wasn’t really viable.
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Yes, it’s dead this time too, as it was all the other times it was mentioned, and also when it was announced.
Hyperloop was a scam from the beginning, it never had a chance of succeeding, even if it wasn’t a scam.
So Yes, it is really really dead now, and it always was.
It was literally a pipedream.Before everyone gets ahead of themselves like in the last thread on this, this is not a Musk company. This is a separate startup based on the same (dumb) idea, that was later bought by Richard Branson’s Virgin. It’s IP is going to the Dubai company that is it’s biggest investor, so I’m sure they’ll actually build one with slave labor and all that.
Nobody is ever going to build one that works anyway.
It might work almost once
Unless they harness my lead at work’s ability to suck they’ll never get enough vac.
I feel personally attacked 🥲
For something to die it needs to be alive. Hyperloop was never anything more than a vaporware and a sabotage to proven transport methods.
The basic idea of reducing air drag with a vacuum is a good one, but there are so many practical problems with a solution like the hyperloop that it should have been shot down earlier than it was. The problem of thermal expansion across a structure hundreds of miles long while needing to maintain a near vacuum was never solved.
