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Trans-Planetary Subway Systems (1978)
- jgilias 6y agoSo... That's 'Hyperloop 1978'? I wonder if Musk happened to read this, or if he rediscovered the idea.
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- ricardobeat 6y agoIt is mentioned in the third page of the original Hyperloop paper: https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/hyperloop-alpha.pdf https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/hyperl...
- jgilias 6y agoThanks! I had actually read that paper. Apparently not attentively enough.
- gojomo 6y agoA few dollars in energy costs for a Los Angeleno to take a 45-minute trip to NYC for lunch & some meetings, & return in time to beat the evening commute traffic jams? Sign me up!
- jl2718 6y agoI was just thinking that the natural path for an intelligent species is downward into their own planet. We could be living on top of a civilization without knowing it.
- Meandering 6y agoThis is where the lizard people are hiding...
- teilo 6y agoTitle implied something more Hyperionesque. Like the River Tethys.