This Is Elon Musk's Hyperloop

THE IRONY HERE (which many are over looking) IS THAT THIS MODE OF TRANSPORTATION IS THE SAME AS THE PURPORTED TUBES FOUND ON MARS—-CAN YOU SAY, UUUMMMMM?

Billionaire Elon Musk has announced details of Hyperloop, his mysterious high-speed transportation project. There was some of what we expected, and a few surprises, too.

SpaceX/Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk has unveiled details on the Hyperloop, his proposed (and until now mostly mysterious) plan for a railway system that could shoot passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in a mere 30 minutes.

It’s actually surprisingly close to what some early predictions forecasted: an elevated, low-friction, high-speed track based on pods, which would ferry people, and even cars, long distances at more than 700 miles per hour.

There are at least a few differences, though. The system was expected to run on a Maglev system (similar to that used in bullet trains) but it actually works through air bearings, a system that’s similar to the low-friction environment created on a hockey table. (On a conference call, Musk described it as falling somewhere between a completely sealed vacuum and a gigantic version of one of those pneumatic-tube systems mail was sent through in the ol’ days.) Musk told Bloomberg BusinessWeek:

Here are more details:

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