Evacuated Tube Transport could take you to China in two hours

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If it works by magnetism, what is "evacuated"? I wonder how much a ticket will cost. It would be an excellent shipping mode. Will there be a driver, or will it all be automated? Probably won't happen in our lifetime, but who cares? One place I do NOT want to go is China.

3-28-2012 @ 10:01AM

Robert said...

"Evacuted" describes the cranial cavity of anybody who takes this crap seriously!

5-15-2012 @ 7:38PM

Ekuwa said...

Evacuated means the tube that the pod travels threw will be in a vacuum state. No air in the tube means the pod doesn't have wind resistance. Because it doesn't have to fight the wind or friction because it's floating on magnets, it will take little energy to reach high speeds. It will probably be automated.

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