It’s only going to possibly work between big cities if at all that aren’t very far apart. Too many obstacles otherwise. I don’t see them putting a tube in out in the center of a wheat or corn field for a commercial silo facility.
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No,…
But you could run one UNDER those expanses.
From station to station it shouldn’t matter the distance,… of course if the concept works.
I’ve heard unverified rumors of a similar tube from DIA in Denver to NORAD in Colorado Springs…. (Roughly 120 miles)
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That would be a people mover if I understood your post correctly.
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Have a very good day. I have other things to do.
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The DIA to NORAD rumors? Yes, people mover for evacuation……
But the Hyperloop idea isn’t just for high level government officials,…
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You’re good man! It’s the interwebs, I try not to get offended by a lack of response.
Enjoy your Saturday!
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I follow my Lord Jesus as best I can. I’m not offended only didn’t see much for continuing the conversation. May the Lord bless you abundantly
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I was trying to keep religion out of this conversation.
But you do you I guess.
If Jesus tells you that Elons bullet train idea is 
I guess you’re obligated to deny any potential it might have while offering no constructive criticism.
Have a blessed weekend.
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Dubai has a flying drone taxi. In India, they’re delivering pizzas with drones. And of course Asia and Russia have their beautiful high speed rail stations and systems, among other incredibly cool things we don’t get to have because…
You, Americans, are being stunted by your government with a bazzillion rules and regulations and the EPA, legislators and so on and on and on. Your nuclear program is halted. Gas lines halted. Basic progress 101 is halted. You’re being held back by the Green Agenda, by skank, like AOC in the Congress. You’re being talked down to by a bunch of f#cking idiots. That’s why you don’t have all this cool stuff, but so-called “developing” countries all have it, no problem.
Your economy is now eclipsed by China’s. You have fallen far behind the rest of the world and you’re still falling. Infrastructure in complete decay.
Musk promised his magnetic tube way back in the early 2000s, among many other things he’s promised but never delivered. The first tube was to go from Las Vegas, NV to Los Angeles, CA. It never materilaized and plans were dropped.
What did Americans get? Endless wars. 911. You got the privilege of bailing out uber-rich banksters with your tax dollars. Robbed. In broad daylight, by your own government and all of it handed over to the richest among us, all tax free. Then we got censored on social media. Then our election stolen. Then COVID. Who knows what’s next?
You’re pimped out by Ol’ Pedo Joe Biden, sending hundreds of billions to Ukraine and Israel for wars we can never win. Meantime, your children can’t afford to participate in the school lunch program. But, yeah, let’s send troops ‘n’ cash to help BiBi and Volodomir.
When will you stop looking up to these people? They’re a joke.
Land of the free and the home of the brave, eh?
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So, how do we fix it?
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With the way things are, you don’t. They have the control and the power, not you, and they’re driving us all into the ground. So how can you fix it? You can’t. The machine, the system, is busted.
The demographic, too has changed. That’s another big problem in itself.
However Trump is a most excellent manager and appears to have a genuine love for this country and your getting him elected has bought you some time in certain areas. He’s a guy who will let our oil and gas flow. That’s a good thing. He’s likely to yank us out of the Paris Climate Accord again. Looks like he’s about to spank Europe and the EU’s evil Leftists and leave Ukraine to them and make them start paying their NATO bills again. So many of these major issues and others are covered… for the moment. Nothing to worry about there.
But Trump has only four years. And he is unique among presidents. So you get whatever good Trump is going to do for you. You have that to look forward to while it lasts.
But the Left, the banksters, the MSM, Blackrock, bomb manufacturers, special interest groups, unelected non-governmental orgs, illegal immigration, the police – all these entities and worse are working against you and will keep doing it. America is their huge cash cow and they will keep fighting for full control.
And so what do you do when Trump is gone after writing all his executive orders and buying us some time? Well, we have to see what the next president brings. In the last instance, Trump presided via executive order in a big way, and so all Ol’ Pedo Joe had to do was undo all of Trump’s executive orders with more executive orders and Trump was wiped out as though he’d never been president. Will that happen again? Or will Trump work harder and try to make his work more permanent? We’ll see. Trump made a lot of mistakes last time he says he will not be making this time. So that’s positive. We’ll just have to wait and see.
Could Trump inspire an entire nation to reform itself? I don’t think so.
To fix this? You’re gonna have to change minds and take the power back. That’s a tall order. Especially when the power hates your guts and wants you out of the way.
How to we fix this? I don’t think we can.
Washington District of Criminals left us all behind a long time ago. They could care less what we think or do – so long as it’s not against them. They have their own agenda. You don’t count in the slightest. They don’t answer to you. They’re not going to answer to you. Not now. Not ever. Those days are long over. You, the taxpayer, are simply a cash register to them. The old honest, law abiding tax paying citizen routine people once wore as a badge of honor is now a mark of shame and stupidity.
History has never seen an empire return from its decline and demise. Sooner or later, collapse will come.
How do we fix this? You don’t.
How do we fix this? You don’t become an empire. No entangling alliances. No brutalizing the people with a militarized police/surveillance state. No privately owned central banks. We must never again allow an unknown foreign entity control of our money supply. That’s what got us where we are now. How to fix this? By getting rid of all of the above and more. And it cannot happen soon enough.
So long as we acquiesce, allow them control over us, our money, our children’s education, our retirement funds, our security, our jobs, our communities, our health – our lives! – buddy – this is what you get! This is where you end up! You can’t fix stupid! Wake up!
You, the People, have hollered and screamed for a hundred years to have government do this, that and the other thing and do it over and over and over again until there’s nothing left of your Freedom. Now, they’re doing all the things you begged them to do. How do you like it? How’s that working out for you? Permit for this, permit for that and every time you walk out your door there are cameras and your stupidphone watching every f#cking move you make.
And this is where you are now. Unfree, unbrave and at the end of the economic juggernaut your hard work helped create.
How to fix this? Let it all collapse – and never build it again.
You f#cked up, America. Big time,
How do you fix this?
Read it. Learn it. Start living it. Pass it around. Spread the news: we have rights. We have a system already in place that can actually work – if only we’d follow it.
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It’s not that we don’t have the techincal capability. We lack the political will to change the legal/social environment. There’s always another environmental group ready to sue the Government on behalf of the Three Barked Whooper Willow or the Two Toed Echidna’s of the Mule River Valley or some other just as ridiculously named critter/plant. Hell there’s a $2 Billion high speed section of rail in the back ass end of Commiformia that doesn’t start anywhere important and ends on just as unimportant strip. There was a high speed rail spur approved to run from Tampa to Orlando and they just gave up on it because the worldwide cost overrun on high speed rail is on the order of 45%.
A proposal I read about one time for High Speed Rail had some fascinating possibilities. To drive high speed rail tunnels underground and link major cities. But we can’t do high speed rail on the existing rail as they have to many curves basically. That’s why underground would be so interesting. Not nearly the environmental impact.
Elon Musk did a talk recently about driving a high speed rail connection between the United States and Europe using his Company, The Boring Company. The cost being bandied about was $2 Trillion or less. In today’s atmosphere deficit spending, that’s chump cage
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Drone ‘bovine / sheep dogs’? 
Crazy maybe, but then again, maybe not. They could be deployed to monitor the track ahead, and buzz the bovines off the tracks. I know nothing about drones, but they are something to consider. I am also hearing of other uses for drones, such as for church security, where they could be used both inside and outside by security teams to monitor parking lots and large congregations, looking for bad actors who may be a threat to those outside or inside.
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In Japan, for one example, their trains bark and grunt to scare deer off the tracks. But they still get killed about 600 times per year. The barking, grunting trains do reduce those numbers quite a bit though.
Train bridges have mesh covering the sides so birds don’t fly into the trains.
People stupid enough to exercise on train tracks, well, let’s just call them Darwin Award Recipients. Nothing to do there. Natural Selection looking out for all of us.
Just as cars hit deer and people and other animals, hey, sh#t happens.
You can save some of the wildlife some of the time, but you can’t save all the wildlife all the time.
About two weeks ago, I was flying home on my fat bike around midnight and a big, fat rabbit ran out in front of me and I ran him over, killing him instantly. I threw him in my saddlebag, took him home, skun him, gutted him, washed him up and wife and I had him for breakfast.
I dread the thought of a bison getting hit by a train however. What a waste of a perfectly good bison. Bison is my favorite.