

Yeah he did, I thought I mentioned it but there is so much to say about this horrible man…
The Hyperloop thing was never ever going to work as even high schoolers could have seen the long list of practical issues with it, prohibiting it from ever getting even in the direction of being real. It’s a fundamentally flawed project
Making a (partial) vacuum machine 3-4 meters in diameter and 600km long? Won’t happen, we can’t even do a fraction of a % for that
Having a 600km tube in the sun will move your endpoints around by hundreds of meters throughout the day due to the metal warming up and expanding
That same tube will also be warmed up more on the top than the bottom, causing that tube to try and warp itself into a circle
So you do have your 600km partial vacuum tube? Awesome, now how do you get that pod train in there, or how do you get the people into that train (or out of it) without breaking your vacuum?
Even with a partial vacuum, when moving that train over 600km will cause a pressure buildup in front of it what will become a problem
This entire design is a terrorists wet dream. I need one rifle of sufficient force to puncture that metal tube and the next train that comes in will end up hitting a hammer.
And there is lots more but I will try hard not to make this post too crazy long
Meanwhile we could have had normal trains but without having a source for it, I do recall reading multiple times that musk didn’t wanted trains because they’d compete with his shitty Tesla cars, and that being the reason why he whipped this up. So now over the past two decades, China has been building railways like there is no tomorrow and now has. Huge network of high speed rail while the US (and Canada, Mexico) have basically and practically nothing. But they have cars, yaaaaaayyyy…



Great write up but just to conclude:
This is not an “if it will break” but “how fast it will break” issue, because this WILL happen, it’s only a matter of when, and event that won’t be far off anymore now that current LLMs have shown to be a technological dead end.