Could it be that Musk got some of his inspiration from the (stalled) Swissmetro project in Switzerland? http://www.swissmetro.ch/en/content/technology http://w

Could it be that Musk got some of his inspiration from the (stalled) Swissmetro project in Switzerland? http://www.swissmetro.ch/en/content/technology http://www.swissmetro.ch/en/content/technology Same idea, different technology. Anyway, implementation is important, not the idea itself.