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The Future of Transportation?? - 4/21/2012 1:30:46 PM   
MasterG2kTR


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I know one thing for sure.....you will never look at the drive-in bank transports the same way again....lol
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RE: The Future of Transportation?? - 4/21/2012 1:49:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		wow wow wow i never imagined something like that, yet so simple and in use on micro scale. i wonder what the energy consumption is for those vacuum tubes. but more importantly, do they have private cars with little holes for servicing needs, if u get my drift (pun intended).

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RE: The Future of Transportation?? - 4/21/2012 4:35:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Travel the world in 6 hours, though I wonder how much of the world you will actually get to see at those speeds.

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RE: The Future of Transportation?? - 4/21/2012 5:20:27 PM   
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Travel the world in 6 hours, though I wonder how much of the world you will actually get to see at those speeds.

You wouldn't see any of it. You'd be in an airtight capsule traveling in a vacuum tunnel. The only reasonable way to even try building one of these would be deep underground.


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RE: The Future of Transportation?? - 4/21/2012 5:28:06 PM   
hapistan


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Status: offline 		Did one of gene rodenberrys non star trek shows not have something like this?

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RE: The Future of Transportation?? - 4/21/2012 5:51:21 PM   
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holy shit thats great.....

fuck it got 20 years to be operational

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RE: The Future of Transportation?? - 4/21/2012 6:07:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		Very interesting but it seems a little too perfect to be true - maybe it will be less ideal when applied in the real world? Also the point about construction cost being a 1/4 of the cost of building roadway seems a bit puzzling...

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RE: The Future of Transportation?? - 4/21/2012 6:15:46 PM   
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Did one of gene rodenberrys non star trek shows not have something like this?


Earth: Gerbil Tube?

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RE: The Future of Transportation?? - 4/21/2012 9:59:42 PM   
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The Future of Transportation??

I know one thing for sure.....you will never look at the drive-in bank transports the same way again....lol



I travel this way now (what's the big fucking deal?).

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RE: The Future of Transportation?? - 4/21/2012 11:50:52 PM   
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