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So is this a legitimate step closer to having the hyperloop or is it more of a hiring/PR stunt for SpaceX? Has anyone confirmed that the hyperloop could surviv
by capkutay 10y ago
So is this a legitimate step closer to having the hyperloop or is it more of a hiring/PR stunt for SpaceX?
Has anyone confirmed that the hyperloop could survive a seismic event?
- djsumdog 10y agoI feels very publicity. I wonder what they make this kids sign in order to join the competition. I bet SpaceX gets to keep the intellectual property. Seems like a cheap way to get a bunch of engineering ideas.
- baking 10y agoSince the only practical application of this is on Mars, I wonder if intellectual property rights will matter.
- Twirrim 10y agohttp://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/2016_0831_hyperloop_competition_ii_rules.pdf http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/2016_0831_hyperloop... I did a quick bit of looking around, rather than making accusations about the company. So far I find no indication in any of the rules I've found for the competitions that SpaceX is running that would suggest any such thing. It's probably worth pointing out that SpaceX isn't much involved in Hyperloop. Elon published the idea, and has mostly left it up to other groups to work on / produce.
- pjscott 10y agoA bit of googling doesn't turn up any mention of that sort of sketchy business. This seems like a pretty standard, innocuous publicity/recruiting event. The world already has enough scandals without inventing fictional ones.
- robryan 10y agoDoes it matter? They have built a prototype, has anyone else done that on this scale? Experimenting with a decent sized model seems like a pretty big step towards having something workable.
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