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b_b · 1128 days ago · link · · parent · post: SpinLaunch conducts first test of suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America
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.I maintain that Hyperloop is a trojan horse SpaceX project to replace the rockets with a centrifugal launch system.