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b_b  ·  1104 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: SpinLaunch conducts first test of suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America

    I maintain that Hyperloop is a trojan horse SpaceX project to replace the rockets with a centrifugal launch system.

I can't find it at the moment but I remember working out the math of the speeds he was promoting for passenger travel and concluding that you would need a greater than 2 mile turn radius or something to stay below 1 g. It was very evident from the beginning that Hyperloop was not a viable transportation idea. Didn't stop any amount of jizz being spilled over it though, because most people don't know thing one about physics.





kleinbl00  ·  1104 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're talking about a man who sold flamethrowers to increase his Internet Approval Rating.

Samantha Bee called him "the world's first billionaire edgelord" which I pretty much dig on.

am_Unition  ·  1104 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Once the "pedo guy" tweet was twitted out and Musk's defense was "yeah I just think the guy looks like a pedophile, that's all", it was like a race to the bottom.

He's still racing:

b_b  ·  1104 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Perfection

wasoxygen  ·  1103 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The Chuo Shinkansen line will have a minimum turn radius of 8000 meters, about five miles.

b_b  ·  1103 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And that should produce about 0.25 x g at speeds that are like a third of what has been proposed by hyperloop.