Yep, it was a dream too impossible for the world in the late 1800s / early 1900s too.

Turns out making a train or maglev inside of a vaccuum tube is more expensive and has insourmountable technical challenges when compared to making...

You know a train or maglev outside of a vaccuum tube.

For christs sake, Elons original napkin sketch was a train with a giant air intake on the front that would push air downward to make the train float and also propel it forward.

You know.

In a vaccuum tube. Where there is no air.

It's easy to see in hindsight that this was a dumb idea meant to steal money and resources from public transit, but it was also easy to see in the middle of it, and at the beginning, and beforehand...

the virgin hyperloop, can't make this shit up

Alas, we humans are not yet capable of achieving lofty pursuits such as a train

if only there were alternatives to cars that could exist in the real world

Even the worst, least well-planned, befuddlingly ignorant ideas can't be carried out in this country

I always wondered about the engineers who worked there. They had to be either dense enough to not see it as a folly on its face, or else see it and sign up for the paycheck anyway.

but that was my fifth mode of transport.

More like hyperpoop, gottem

What's the next anti-railway grift gonna be?

Magnetically accelerated pods in a tube, like a railgun with people inside?

Futurama pneumatic tubes?

Autogyros launched via a comically large crossbow? Is Elon going to discover that single passenger gyroplanes exist, reinvent the ballista, combine them and scam taxpayers to fund this fever dream?

Imagine if the US military had said the same thing about the Korean or Vietnam War

You guys won't be laughing when orbital ring roller coasters are the next grift

Hyperloop

Space elevator