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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
Hyperloop has only one sensible use case: if you've already built a city on Mars and need to move workers out to peripheral installations. Small-diameter tunnels are cheaper, the near-vacuum comes for free, and you want to minimize surface exposure time (to avoid high energy cosmic radiation).
On Earth it's a stupid idea that Dilbert Stark only promoted as a spoiler for high speed rail, which he saw as a threat to his electric toy cars.
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