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Wintermute  ·  3477 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's Official: SpaceX Is Building Elon Musk's Hyperloop

Building a one mile test track is a pretty far cry from "building Elon Musk's Hyperloop".





insomniasexx  ·  3477 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Eh. It's a pretty large first step especially considering a year ago, when the announcement was made, it was merely of a fun, hypothetical idea.

thenewgreen  ·  3477 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Agreed. It's an enormous step.

Corvus  ·  3477 days ago  ·  link  ·  

True. It's still pretty cool though!

kleinbl00  ·  3477 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'll be honest. I thought he was trolling with that whole hyperloop thing. But you know what? This is my kind of trolling.

Tinfoil hat time: the data SpaceX will get from testing these prototypes is 100% applicable to the development of a launch cannon and allows SpaceX to build up lots of data related to magnetic launchers without having to put up with Gerald Bull bullshit.