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From NY to LA in 45 minutes?

Van Basten said:
Elon Musk thinks he can get you from NY to LA in 45 minutes.






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IF this could actually work and enough people could get behind the project, it'd be awesome. It really would.
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Big deal, it will still take you four hours to get to your hotel on the freeway/parkinglot.
 
UtahBill said:
Very seldom, and I am 67....
Plan ahead, dude, plan ahead...
or aren't there any cans in Tucson? :2razz:
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There are but after a certain incident at Burrito Express.....well, let's just say that I have to be a little choosey now:lol:
 
Lutherf said:
There are but after a certain incident at Burrito Express.....well, let's just say that I have to be a little choosey now:lol:
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Were you in Phoenix for a golf tournament a few years ago? I saw some poor guy hustling thru a hotel lobby, his khaki shorts were severely stained....
 
UtahBill said:
Very few "genius" types have skills beyond the ones that got them labeled genius in the first place.
Jeff surely isn't going near my prostate come the day I need that worked on....
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Geniuses need only two skill sets to be successful in changing the world... the ability to affect their strengths, and the ability to recognize their weaknesses and hire those that can fill in those areas.
 
there's this thing we call the sky
and these aluminum (these days a lotta carbon fiber too) tubes with wings
these things are called airplanes
they can take you anywhere in the world without the need for vacuum tubes
now if I can get a tesla or a chevy volt that is cheaper to purchase and operate
than these things called 'cars' that can be purchased in any major city at a reasonable price lemme know
and I'm sure the NEXT time I need to loft something into low earth orbit I'll consider spacex
along with the other available providers of this type of service that is if it hasn't gone bust by then?
 
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Occam's Razor said:
Geniuses need only two skill sets to be successful in changing the world... the ability to affect their strengths, and the ability to recognize their weaknesses and hire those that can fill in those areas.
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aye, there's the rub....If they are any good in their own fields, why would they want to give up their talents to some guy with more money than sense?
 
UtahBill said:
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aye, there's the rub....If they are any good in their own fields, why would they want to give up their talents to some guy with more money than sense?
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I know hundreds of brilliant engineers that are virtually worthless in almost every other facet of life or skill. Ask the folks that worked for Thomas Edison... The folks at Bell Labs, at IBM's research park... a paycheck derived from someone that knows how to promote. Welcome to America.

As for Musk... You are short changing a man with quite an incredible track record. He's been successful because he's dared to dream and do in areas others thought too lofty or just plain silly. This is often the case with groundbreakers. Tesla, Edison, Jobs, Darwin, Galileo, Archimedes, Da Vinci, and on and on.
 
ChuckBerry said:
zoning




That's why this idea is dead in the water.

Sorry.
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zoning doesn't stop rail, electrical grids, cell networks, pipelines, highways, etc. What will be the deciding factor is how much freight can be shipped at what cost... not travelers.
 
Sure stopped the keystone pipeline and all that Canadian goodness from a flowin' now din it??
 
Touché
yeah prolly not ;)
 
Sherman123 said:
If he gets a reusable single stage to orbit rocket, a mass marketable electric car, cost efficient solar power generation (one I'm more doubtful of in terms of his model and plan), and somehow hyperloop as well he'd probably be on track for one of the greatest humans who ever lived.
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Yay capitalism! Though really, hes not doing anything special. Just using his money to do something unique. Any of us could do the same with a few billion behind us.
 
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RabidAlpaca said:
Of course, but getting cash is one of the things he's really great at. Science wise this isn't any harder than building rockets to get to the ISS.



You apparently don't know anything about Elon Musk.
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There is no way this will ever come to fruition simply due to govt. He would have to do it in another country.
 
To make the pod go faster, Musk proposes mounting a large fan to its nose. The fan would take high pressure at the front of the pod and direct it toward the rear, effectively alleviating the pressure of the pod and facilitating high speeds.
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Sounds to me as if hes just making an airplane run on a rail (tube). I would rather he find a way to make air travel cheaper. Or automate cars.
 
The only time you'll see something built, or a product or service offered, that no one wants and the company producing it can not sustain a profit doin' it, is either when it is the Government or some wack-a-doodle like Eldon. Tesla hah yeah right I realize most folks have never been the CEO of a Chapter C corporation and a balance sheet and a P & L are things they have no concept of, so I can see how they point to Tesla and say: it is a monumental success but for Pete's sake, are you really that silly? ok the guy invented PayPal sold it 11 years ago for 1.5 billion and has played around with an electric car company that is funded by 'loans' for green energy from the government and uses profits gained from shorting his OWN company stock to raise cash to post a fake profit? He builds a product that will never compete in the car market and created a money losing space company that uses virtually off the shelf technology to loft stuff into LEO It's no surprise to me that he'd propound the silly concept of a train in a vacuum tube. you might have chugged the whole jug of kool-aid but adults just snicker at these things.
 
UtahBill said:
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aye, there's the rub....If they are any good in their own fields, why would they want to give up their talents to some guy with more money than sense?
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It's called wage slavery, a noble pursuit. And if some crackpot wants to spend money in a non-profit manner then why not collect a paycheck while it is going on?
 
jonny5 said:
There is no way this will ever come to fruition simply due to govt. He would have to do it in another country.
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Would you like to elaborate on that or are you just making things up? The government allowed companies to build roads, railroads, airports, and bus terminals, why would they bar this?

AngryOldGuy said:
The only time you'll see something built, or a product or service offered, that no one wants and the company producing it can not sustain a profit doin' it, is either when it is the Government or some wack-a-doodle like Eldon. Tesla hah yeah right I realize most folks have never been the CEO of a Chapter C corporation and a balance sheet and a P & L are things they have no concept of, so I can see how they point to Tesla and say: it is a monumental success but for Pete's sake, are you really that silly? ok the guy invented PayPal sold it 11 years ago for 1.5 billion and has played around with an electric car company that is funded by 'loans' for green energy from the government and uses profits gained from shorting his OWN company stock to raise cash to post a fake profit? He builds a product that will never compete in the car market and created a money losing space company that uses virtually off the shelf technology to loft stuff into LEO It's no surprise to me that he'd propound the silly concept of a train in a vacuum tube. you might have chugged the whole jug of kool-aid but adults just snicker at these things.
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As if every word you've uttered in this thread didn't make you sound ridiculous enough, this statement alone destroyed any sliver of credibility you had. You have no idea what you're talking about.
 
It's not rocket science no wait IT IS! :lamo
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"The injector at the heart of Merlin rocket motor is of the pintle type that was first used in the Apollo Program for the lunar module landing engine (LMDE)."

OK it was a REALLY dusty shelf.
The Falcon 9 is currently the only active rocket of the Falcon rocket family.
Total launches 5
Successes 4
Failures 0
Partial failures 1
First flight June 4, 2010

you see, really anyone with the capital could have created SpaceX (dude you could prolly do it)
Now making a profit that is a hole nuther kettle of fish Sonny Boy
 
RabidAlpaca said:
Would you like to elaborate on that or are you just making things up? The government allowed companies to build roads, railroads, airports, and bus terminals, why would they bar this?
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Built when it was easy. Now it takes forever and a lot of money to even build a road or bridge, because of environmental regulations, the FAA, issues with right of way. If that hyperloop happens to want to go through a stand of trees where there is an endangered frog, forget it. Keystone pipeline for example.
 
Superfly said:
Same. I see liability issues as well.
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I would wager the same was said about commercial air travel. Would Buddy Holly have been bigger than Elvis (not in terms of mass)?
 
hah I ended up on Tesla's page finding out about the stupidity that is hyperloop and stumbled on supercharger. Reminded me of the simple fact (yanno based on high school physics classes) that if we ever did have electric cars, not only would a trip to the 'filling station' take a lil bit more time but the concept that 'filling stations' would draw an amount of electric power that surpasses mind boggling. Course the green energy wackos never say where all that power is going to come from or whose pocket will be picked for the upgrades to the national power grid.
 
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