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It's time to be honest about Musk's vacuum tube to nowhere

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[โ€“] [email protected] 87 points 11 months ago (25 children)

Hyoerloop is not a scam just because The con man proposed it with the intent of stopping a high speed rail road project.

It's a scam also because:

  • the idea is not his. It's 100 years old and has been tackled by other before him.
  • it's impossible to be build from the technical point of view.
  • even if you do manage to miraculously built it it won't be economically feasible.
  • in the lasts years it's starting to be obvious that if it's backed by Musk it's a scam in some degree, shape or form. (see also Solar Cities, Tesla, The Loop and the Boring company, etc.)
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

No it's that it hasn't been executed properly yet, as for whether it's an actual scam is another issue

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