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They cite pneumatic tubes as an inspiration. Why not straight up build pneumatic tubes of their own?

• mschuster91 3y ago
  Maintaining pressurized grids is hard enough for the systems in use in hospitals, and any small failure in a pressurized pipe has the potential for a huge disaster.
  • black6 3y ago
    Chemical plants, on the whole, seem to manage pressurized systems quite well.
    • mschuster91 3y ago
      Yeah, but these tend to be enclosed inside of a factory, with no external factors like cable-seeking machines (i.e. your average backhoe) or terrorists to take into account.
      • pavel_lishin 3y ago
        They also don't allow random people to shove something into a box, and then shove that box into the tube.