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I dunno... I'd feel much more comfortable if all humanities smartest technical people were trying to make the next whatsapp clone /s

• KirinDave 10y ago
  Maybe in elementary school people should get high marks for effort. I don't know. But in the case of a company raising funding and claiming it wants to build a ton of subsidized infrastructure to service the public, it isn't the case that we should say, "This is better than some more vacuous application of the money." Because it's not at all clear that Hyperloop is actually a good plan to reintroduce high speed rail into America when so many problems keep coming to light about it.
  • xt00 10y ago
    Hyperloop is definitely vacuous..
• na85 10y ago
  Contrarily, I'd feel more comfortable if "idea guys" like Musk would leave the engineering to actual engineers.
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  • wcummings 10y ago
    Don't challenge the Musk hero worship!
  • icebraining 10y ago
    Then you'll be glad to know that's what he's doing with Hyperloop - he has just released the idea as a paper, but he's not directly involved in its development, which is being done by independent companies.
    • ant6n 10y ago
      You mean he released a paper renaming vactrains to hyperloop.
  • emodendroket 10y ago
    Elon Musk: I'll make the Wiki.
  • Manabu-eo 10y ago
    Dozens of engineers from Tesla and SpaceX contributed in the Hyperloop whitepaper. Plus Elon considers himself an engineer, even though he has a degree in physics.
    • na85 10y ago
      I consider myself a brain surgeon.