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The Fantastic Fucking Future
Brolo
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Welcome to the Hyperl∞p!
So Elon Musk (Tesla Motors, SpaceX) wants to make a supersonic pneumatic tube transport system that could get you from San Francisco to LA in 30 minutes.
http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-20130812.pdf
So What is Hyperloop Anyway?
Short of figuring out real teleportation, which would of course be awesome
(someone please do this), the only option for super fast travel is to build a tube
over or under the ground that contains a special environment. This is where
things get tricky.
At one extreme of the potential solutions is some enlarged version of the old
pneumatic tubes used to send mail and packages within and between buildings.
You could, in principle, use very powerful fans to push air at high speed
through a tube and propel people-sized pods all the way from LA to San
Francisco. However, the friction of a 350 mile long column of air moving at
anywhere near sonic velocity against the inside of the tube is so stupendously
high that this is impossible for all practical purposes.
Another extreme is the approach, advocated by Rand and ET3, of drawing a
hard or near hard vacuum in the tube and then using an electromagnetic
suspension. The problem with this approach is that it is incredibly hard to
maintain a near vacuum in a room, let alone 700 miles (round trip) of large
tube with dozens of station gateways and thousands of pods entering and
exiting every day. All it takes is one leaky seal or a small crack somewhere in
the hundreds of miles of tube and the whole system stops working.
However, a low pressure (vs. almost no pressure) system set to a level where
standard commercial pumps could easily overcome an air leak and the
transport pods could handle variable air density would be inherently robust.
Unfortunately, this means that there is a non-trivial amount of air in the tube
and leads us straight into another problem.
How does it work?
Somehow! There's an air cushion, and a seat, and you can put your car in it. This diagram might also help:
Will this turn into a real thing? Ehh, maybe? Elon Musk is already saying he's already too involved with Tesla Motors and SpaceX to devote a lot of time to it.
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Looking like a complete tool while wearing AR goggles is the future.
https://www.spaceglasses.com/
I'm actually really excited about augmented reality glasses, and I think this kind of tech is going to blow up really quickly, particularly with parallel technology coming along in VR headsets via the Oculus Rift. Take a Rift, strap two high-res webcams on it for stereoscopic vision, and you've got everything you need for augmented reality right there.
While the marketing is targeting videogames, and the real market is of course for porn, I think there could be some really amazing applications for this in terms of hands-on learning tutorials, where having a wearable HUD and a computer system that could recognize and highlight images from the built-in camera could be really helpful for things like fixing engines, building structures or preparing particularly complicated sandwiches.
Anyway let's bitch about how we still don't have flying cars/rocket skateboards.
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You can only be RADICAL.
That's like a baby's toy.
This post brought to you by about 9 beers
Maybe kill less people building it.
That would be pretty real.
Make a rail gun that shoots plasma or something
That'd be cool. Or rather the plasma would be very very hot.
Imagine your space glasses, combined with the Emotiv Insight.
Basically, every third article makes me super excited for twenty years from now.
Example:
http://phys.org/news/2013-08-personal-jetpack-flight.html
http://phys.org/news/2013-08-asteroids-strathclyde-team-easy.html
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-08-gene-technique-advances-regenerative-medicine.html
What really trips me out is using 3d printing to make food.
I mean, we might actually have working food replicators in our lifetime. It'll probably taste like shit and cost a fortune, but how rad is that?
or even fuck the loop itself???
important issues that must be addressed.
There's not a Chinaman's chance of this actually happening though.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
You want your dick sucked SO hard that it flies off and doesn't stop till it hits california?
and every time there's an accident, a siren would sound
all the siren does is repeatedly announce
desu
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Also dude, that is not the preferred nomenclature.
Asian american please.
I ask because those are important steps in creating a holodeck.
hahahahahaha
be prepared to get a hypermaster's level hyperdegree in order to drive a hyperforklift
It's pretty cool! It's super weird though looking down at your balls and your balls not being there though.
I reckon it'd be nuts if they made an occulus rift / kinect game.
Satans..... hints.....
It would only be playable inside a padded cell, though.
Yeah, but the first time you forget to update the firmware: BAM, mauled by a holo-shark.
how about a full auto railgun?
I dont like the idea of a gun that doesn't make a big loud noise when you shoot it