Post by zer00eyz on Oct 8, 2017 1:01:22 GMT -5
Maybe you missed this news:
www.space.com/38314-elon-musk-spacex-mars-rocket-earth-travel.html
The man is hell bent on finding a way to fund a rocket to get us off this godforsaken rock (kudos to him) --- the problem for him is that he has to run a viable business, one that needs to "scale up" to make a lot of rockets. Throwing caution, g-forces and physics to the wind, lets assume such a rocket is not only possible but going to be something we see in our lifetime.
It is great if you can build the beast but how do you manage it. We have enough trouble with planes, and urban environments -- the giant bomb that your boarding to go to space and back in order to cross 1/2 the globe for dinner and a show needs to be FAR from a population center.
Our current flight infrastructure is already awful: hard to reach, hard to use and even harder to tolerate -- how many people do you know who say "lets go to the airport for fun. The reality is a "space port" built today is only going to make this problem worse (remember giant bombs don't belong near population centers AKA where you live.
Enter the hyper loop!
For those of you who don't know what this is look here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
As far as high speed transport goes, it is an interesting and possibly workable concept. But it has a purpose that helps Musk with the rockets. You can put that giant bomb out in the middle of nowhere now, and people can get there quickly, you also need fewer places launching giant bombs. One spaceport (or two) could service the entire west coast, and some of the boarding inland sates
We still have a problem: getting to the start of your hyper loop journey, to get on your rocket to get to the other side of the globe in a giant bomb is no different than getting to the airport today. We have just shifted the congestion point from existing airports to these new stations.
Enter Tesla.
Two major issues make the airport a chore -- getting there and congestion. Granted tesla isn't solving the "getting there" part but congestion could be abated to a large degree. Your car should be aware enough of your impending route (as well as others routes) to tell you when to leave to get there "on time". In fact you could make the whole system aware, your basically going to start the "boring process" that flights today have at your own home or office. Your number is "called' you hop in a waiting car that takes you to the hyper loop station. The passengers you board with here are likely to be ones getting on your flight, you might even disembark from one from your hyper loop train directly onto your rocket/bomb in order to expedite queuing and minimize waiting.
Do all of these companies efforts have a purpose on their own, sure. Space x is already doing cool stuff as is tesla. Can all of these things together make Musk the king of transport and potentially change the world --- you bet!
www.space.com/38314-elon-musk-spacex-mars-rocket-earth-travel.html
The man is hell bent on finding a way to fund a rocket to get us off this godforsaken rock (kudos to him) --- the problem for him is that he has to run a viable business, one that needs to "scale up" to make a lot of rockets. Throwing caution, g-forces and physics to the wind, lets assume such a rocket is not only possible but going to be something we see in our lifetime.
It is great if you can build the beast but how do you manage it. We have enough trouble with planes, and urban environments -- the giant bomb that your boarding to go to space and back in order to cross 1/2 the globe for dinner and a show needs to be FAR from a population center.
Our current flight infrastructure is already awful: hard to reach, hard to use and even harder to tolerate -- how many people do you know who say "lets go to the airport for fun. The reality is a "space port" built today is only going to make this problem worse (remember giant bombs don't belong near population centers AKA where you live.
Enter the hyper loop!
For those of you who don't know what this is look here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
As far as high speed transport goes, it is an interesting and possibly workable concept. But it has a purpose that helps Musk with the rockets. You can put that giant bomb out in the middle of nowhere now, and people can get there quickly, you also need fewer places launching giant bombs. One spaceport (or two) could service the entire west coast, and some of the boarding inland sates
We still have a problem: getting to the start of your hyper loop journey, to get on your rocket to get to the other side of the globe in a giant bomb is no different than getting to the airport today. We have just shifted the congestion point from existing airports to these new stations.
Enter Tesla.
Two major issues make the airport a chore -- getting there and congestion. Granted tesla isn't solving the "getting there" part but congestion could be abated to a large degree. Your car should be aware enough of your impending route (as well as others routes) to tell you when to leave to get there "on time". In fact you could make the whole system aware, your basically going to start the "boring process" that flights today have at your own home or office. Your number is "called' you hop in a waiting car that takes you to the hyper loop station. The passengers you board with here are likely to be ones getting on your flight, you might even disembark from one from your hyper loop train directly onto your rocket/bomb in order to expedite queuing and minimize waiting.
Do all of these companies efforts have a purpose on their own, sure. Space x is already doing cool stuff as is tesla. Can all of these things together make Musk the king of transport and potentially change the world --- you bet!