Exactly. I enjoyed the fairly well supported counter-arguments to the ideas. Inevitably it isn't going to be quite as good as it appears initially, and open de

Exactly. I enjoyed the fairly well supported counter-arguments to the ideas. Inevitably it isn't going to be quite as good as it appears initially, and open debate is how consensus is reached, but he devalues the whole argument by laying into the person who brought it all up. Whether or not the idea is valid is irrelevant - the fact that Elon Musk is proposing it does lend it some additional weight - with Space X and to a lesser extent Tesla, he has gone into an existing market, taken a step back, rethought things from the ground up, and re-written the book on how much it costs to do things. I don't know if Hyperloop is as technically feasible and cost effective as it looks, I don't know if any government would have the courage to go in that direction, but I do know that it isn't going to get anywhere with good balanced debate on the technical merits of the proposed solution and ad hominem rubbish just gets in the way of that.