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The Fantastic Fucking Future

BroloBrolo BroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
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Welcome to the Hyperl∞p!

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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?

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Somehow! There's an air cushion, and a seat, and you can put your car in it. This diagram might also help:

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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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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    you can't be careful on a rocket skateboard

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    you can't be careful on a rocket skateboard

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    You can only be RADICAL.

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Well since hydrogen cars are already almost comparable to gas powered cars maybe this guy could dump Tesla motors and make awesome super trains

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    You gotta use your hands?

    That's like a baby's toy.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Magnets are the future. Imagine a system of transportation where the road is opposite magnetic of the magnets on the bottom of your vehicle propelling you long until you reach your destination where you will be slowed by friction.

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  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    But I was informed that we don't know how Magnets work, beyond them being a miracle

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Seems like a cool idea, but it remains to be seen whether anyone will actually go for it - Musk released the plans because he's too busy with Tesla and all that, so he wants someone else to do all the actual work.

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    We really should build a new rail system

    Maybe kill less people building it.

    Tallahasseeriel on
  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Uriel wrote: »
    We really should build a new real system

    Maybe kill less people building it.

    That would be pretty real.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Lasers man, lasers.

  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    3D printing is the most recent tech that sorta blows my mind

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    I don't know how that auto corrected like that.

  • MulletudeMulletude Registered User regular
    I won't lie...Elon Musk sounds like a name George Lucas came up with.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Yeah it does. Elon Musk would be some kind of weird alien with a vaginal gave in Star Wars 7.

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Rail guns are also neat.

    Make a rail gun that shoots plasma or something

    That'd be cool. Or rather the plasma would be very very hot.

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Elon "Hyperloop" Musk, who can do the SanFra run in 30 lightminutes.

  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    The Hyperloop is probably the best idea that's ever been scrawled onto the back of a bar napkin and then left for more motivated people to figure out how it would actually work and how to implement it.

  • ZayZay yes i am zay Registered User regular
    yo that tube would be scary as hell what if you move your body and then get smashed huh bet they didn't think of that

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  • SoggybiscuitSoggybiscuit Tandem Electrostatic Accelerator Registered User regular
    Rolo wrote: »
    p0LxIVy.jpg

    Welcome to the Hyperl∞p!

    4bGvtCE.jpg

    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?

    JOUTW2b.png

    Somehow! There's an air cushion, and a seat, and you can put your car in it. This diagram might also help:

    iilzj5l.png

    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.

    --

    OTHER FUTURE THINGS:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7I7JuQXttw
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv7nSng0yD8

    HbSfoz9.png

    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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  • Caveman PawsCaveman Paws Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
  • bezerk bobbezerk bob Registered User regular
    How about someone invents a social system where most jobs dont suck a fat one.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    I haven't yet convinced myself that this stuff is real.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZrjXSsfxMQ

  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    3D printing is the most recent tech that sorta blows my mind

    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?

  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    That stuff is the coolest stuff.

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    but can you fuck while inside the hyper loop

    or even fuck the loop itself???

    important issues that must be addressed.

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  • knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    Uriel wrote: »
    We really should build a new rail system

    Maybe kill less people building it.

    There's not a Chinaman's chance of this actually happening though.

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Kadith wrote: »
    but can you fuck while inside the hyper loop

    or even fuck the loop itself???

    important issues that must be addressed.

    You want your dick sucked SO hard that it flies off and doesn't stop till it hits california?

  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    Zay wrote: »
    yo that tube would be scary as hell what if you move your body and then get smashed huh bet they didn't think of that

    and every time there's an accident, a siren would sound

    all the siren does is repeatedly announce

    desu

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    Uriel wrote: »
    We really should build a new rail system

    Maybe kill less people building it.

    There's not a Chinaman's chance of this actually happening though.

    instantrimshot.com

    Also dude, that is not the preferred nomenclature.

    Asian american please.

  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    When will we get photorealistic holograms and forcefields?

    I ask because those are important steps in creating a holodeck.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    bezerk bob wrote: »
    How about someone invents a social system where most jobs dont suck a fat one.

    hahahahahaha

    be prepared to get a hypermaster's level hyperdegree in order to drive a hyperforklift

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I used an occulus rift at pax!

    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.

  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    I used an occulus rift at pax!

    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.

    It would only be playable inside a padded cell, though.

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    TrippyJing wrote: »
    When will we get photorealistic holograms and forcefields?

    I ask because those are important steps in creating a holodeck.

    Yeah, but the first time you forget to update the firmware: BAM, mauled by a holo-shark.

  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    New peripheral that is literally the conn-pod from Pacific Rim.

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    You know what would be nice? A safe and effective nonlethal weapon that is accurate at range.

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  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    Uriel wrote: »
    Rail guns are also neat.

    Make a rail gun that shoots plasma or something

    That'd be cool. Or rather the plasma would be very very hot.

    how about a full auto railgun?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWeJsaCiGQ0

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    20 second battery life but man what a 20 seconds!

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  • KwoaruKwoaru Confident Smirk Flawless Golden PecsRegistered User regular
    huh

    I dont like the idea of a gun that doesn't make a big loud noise when you shoot it

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