Hyperloop One collapses into fiscal black hole | Auto Expert John Cadogan
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An infinite vacuum tunnel! Love it! It's called space...or politicians' integrity.
Interesting to note that Brunel tried the vacuum system to move railway rolling stock around one hundred years ago, and he kind of got it to work, but gave up because maintenance was to costly. HE was a real engineer and way ahead of his time.
It used lots of animal fat to make the seals airtight and that attracted rats which broke the seals.
And he could spell too.
Yea it’s crazy to think how much that one man impacted so many things we have and use to this day.
Yup, Brunel quickly figured out that the energy required to create the vacuum negated any benefits.
It is the same basic problem as making efficient power lines using superconductors. The costs of building, then powering, refrigeration are way higher than just using lossy power lines.
We do have better materials, but making it work would be a matter of detail and maintenance.
Who would have thought an idea that failed a century ago, would have failed.
Even worse is people actually believed Elon thought of the idea. What a gullable society.
You didnt do the scam right! plus its not fair
-socialists
Who would have thought we would have walked on the Moon. But we did. And soon we will again. The idea of a train in a vacuum tube will have its time in the sun.
@@yggdrasil9039 no it won’t, the economics are horrible the engineering challenges are extremely daunting and as other competent engineers have pointed out maintaining such a system would require absolutely vast amounts of finance and resources.
You could also say that whad DaVinci had scetched in 1485 was a failed idea. Regardless of that the idea was re-tried successfully (1903 if you just say flying machine) 1939 by Sikorski IIRC.
Just because an idea has failed in the past doesn't automatically disqualify it from being retried.
That being said, hyperloop was doomed from the get-go cause of the energy amounts required to be stored in the tunnel as pressure differentials.
Who would have thought that creating a vacuum hundreds of miles long and large enough in diameter to fit a train would be that hard? Oh, yeah, anyone who can do basic math...
I fail to understand how so many “scientists and engineers” sign up for this. I understand how a rich clueless person thinks it is a good idea and pitches it, but beyond that…?
@@Grk149 the same way they signed up for the electric car and electric airplane.
Everything is possible until it's not and if they didnt ever try anything you wouldn't have predictive "basic math".
@@bcluett1697 It's really not that hard to calculate the volume of a cylinder and then figure out how much power would be necessary to remove all of the air from it. That number alone speaks to how impractical this is.
@@Grk149 getting paid might have something to do with it. Amazing what money will do to integrity.
I'm confused John. This sounds just like the kind of project that the Queensland government would normally invest in. If it is as bad as you say, why didn't they do that?
What I find concerning is the amount of "experts" who believe whatever comes out of EJ's mouth. These "experts" are advising governments who make public policy.
As my mate used to say, "To get the meaning deconstruct the word." Ex is a has been and spurt is a drip under pressure. It defines most experts perfectly to me!
Because $$$
They either work for him and therefore have to follow his "Elon Musk is always right" rule or be fired, or they want to work for him and have to follow the same rule to even stand a chance of being hired. Every expert worth his salt immediately punches holes in EJ's BS large enough to drive a Semi through (and that includes that BS Tesla Semi).
rent a experts.
Is called religeous technocracy. Very common these days for people to promote any article that contains the word innovation and suits their own opnions.
Fantastic way to wrap up the year - Thanks for all the great humour and real world engineering insights this year JC!
My pleasure mate. Thanks for watching. It means a lot. HNY.
Just do not stop with the 'Heads Up'!
@@AutoExpertJC
A vacuum of that size is expensive and dangerous. Two things you definitely want from transportation.
So is 230,000 liters of jet fuel, but 10's of thousands of people get on planes carrying that everyday. Humans have had a lot of really bad ideas through out history, more than a few we've made work.
My major thought about all of this is how much energy is it going to take to get all the air out of the loop. It will probably take all the energy Australia produces in a year to do it.
Also... even if you can achieve adequate vacuum, how easy would it be to liquify the unlucky passengers with a cheap, well placed bomb, letting in atmospheric pressure wherever this tube was exposed? No thanks.
@@RoyClendaniel Or an accidental breech of the tube.
Evacuating a huge vessel is not only difficult and requires a lot of energy - it also creates a giant bomb.
If the structure fails (for whatever reasons) and the vacuum seal is broken, the air from the atmosphere will enter the vessel in a very violent and destructive way.
Effectively releasing most of the energy that was use to create the vacuum in a very short amount of time.
Anyone with a basic understanding of physics knows that releasing large amounts of stored energy within a short timespan can be very dangerous...
Don't worry solar and windmills will provide all the power you need. This is on top of all the EV's it will need to charge. Never mind worry and I mean a lot.
My major thought is why?
For what could such a system be useful? Total brain fart.
I never understood the Hyperloop name. The way I understand it is this thing could only operate in a straight line which makes completing a loop quite challenging unless you're planning on circumnavigating the globe.
And even then it would need to be a flat earth!
There was never a need for the pods or carriages to be a tight fit in the tube, so it could have a large radius where needed - it’s unlikely that you could drive a straight tunnel hundreds of miles long anywhere in the world, other than maybe the most willing countries of the Middle East.
and if the earth were flat of course it would make sense
Ha ha indeed. One would tend to think the required vacuum would make it a slightly fatal experience for any passengers entering it.
@@rustysworldofentertainment850 Your missing the point, although the tube is a almost perfect vacuum the train is not.. AND in the event of an air leak in the train the passengers can simply open the door and breathe in the air the train is floating on. :) Train has a nice cushion of air to float on whilst in the vacuum tube..
I don't remember Elon telling us how a train floats on air in a vacuum but I am sure he can fix it, just like his base on Mars.
When I was a high school freshman (1979/1980), I put a lot of time into daydreaming about a hyperloop scenario. I came to the conclusion that there were too many points of failure to make it feasible
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How do you maintain a vacuum across long distances?
How do you supply air to people inside the transport?
How do you carry large numbers of people while maintaining safe headway distances between transports?
How do you transition a hyperloop carriage from an evacuated transportation tunnel to a platformed station at one atmosphere?
Transitioning from the tube to a station is not an easy problem, but there are designs like the end screwing into a seal, like space craft can dock with each other. Hyper loop is one of those ideas that is tantalising because you can think of solutions to the problems but add all the problems and costs together and it's too much money and problems.
Easy - you get lots of rich suckers involved!
Imagine the problem of keeping people alive in the transport module if a door seal fails.
And if the vacuum fails in some part of the circuit does the air turbulence throw the capsule into a tumble?
@@xpusostomoslike a bullet through a self sealing fuel tank?
As if I didn't admire your humour before, I admire it even more now because you are able to paraphrase John Cleese, and the Book of the Apocalypse. That was the work of a master.
This was spectacular! Your writing and presentation are truly of the highest degree. Not a word is without humor and honesty and a bit of erudite shart. Bravo. Bravo.
I’m old enough to remember back in the early 80s this same idea was bean purposed as the next big thing.
Where you could travel from Sydney to Perth in about 45 minutes.
In a vacuum tube,then nothing 🤔
Was that around elections time ?
High speed rail from Sydney to Canberra type of thing ?
How many people actually want to travel from Sydney to Perth though?
If anyone out there wants to ride in a hyperloop type system the tunnel in Las Vegas is completed and operating. You get to ride through the tunnel in a common old garden variety Tesla at a neck snapping 30 mph. The rusted on Tesla fanbois still adhere to the claimed 4500 passengers per hour capacity but at 3 passengers per Tesla perhaps they should have paid more attention during their grade school math classes.
Hey, it's a tube, so...
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas…..
What happened to the pods doing 150mph?
It must be true. Musk said so.
@charlestoast4051 we can only hope
Hyperloop is not dead, theres still a couple of projects that have somehow managed to keep the funding stream alive. Got to admire the grift, possibly the best salesman alive to keep such an obviously flawed idea running so long.
Salesman, conman, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
Maybe correct so how much more money will be dropped in the hole this time
Maybe as good a salesman as those still pushing the 2020 wonder juice... plenty of suckers left in the world to fall for it.
@@Zachhatesyoutube No, it is not hard to tell. A good salesman never tries to con it´s customer.
I am a sales engineer myself and selling a customer bullshit is a sure way not to do business again.
A conman is only interested in doing one sale and than move on to the next victim.
... and then there's SpinLaunch. It's not one of Musk's but it's even less plausible than the Hype Loop. It *sounds* plausible if you can't do mathematics though, and has got to small scale prototype, presumably to suck in more big investors.
Unfortunately people don't function well in a vacuum, so a minor leak in the transport pod could see some hypoxic passengers or them dead on arrival.
The amount of steel required to produce a cylinder that is a reasonable length and capable of not being crushed by only 1 atmosphere is pretty significant. It would easily make the task cost prohibitive, even before any of the other engineering is looked at.
Much cheaper to just make it into a couple of rails and roll some steel wheels along it, just not a sexy.
That DOA thing would have been their fault, for needing to breathe...
@@AutoExpertJC "Unfortunately your recently departed relative didn't select the 'Breathable atmosphere' option when they booked their ticket, so although we are sorry for your loss, we can in no way be held liable."
Love your show-it’s a great blend of diction, invective, engineering wit, and sarcasm. Perfect for a 5:00 am coffee before plunging into the incredible mess that is the digital world, or perhaps more chaotic, my garage/toolshed after completing 3 projects simultaneously!
(ADD people tend to put tools down right where they finished with them and as we age it can be a game of “Hunt the socket wrench!” Perhaps it might be that my non-mechanical wife has decided to “Help” by making things neater, putting things away and failing to share info on the location. 😂)
RE the Hyper Loop, put in thousands of miles of space-level-vacuum resistant pipe, with a diameter large enough to make freight/passenger service through it commercially viable, plus the MagLev track-SERIOUSLY???
I’ll bet it would require a massive, ICE Vacuum Pump for every mile of track just to keep the vacuum levels usable, never mind the build-out for the power requirement: we still don’t have room-temperature Superconductors to make the MagLev efficient either. (The reason that Tesla’s AC won the “Current War” was that Edison’s DC would require a great dirty coal power plant for about every mile of transmission distance.)
Could be MUCH more doable AND useful to create a “Space Elevator” to Geosynchronous Earth Orbit, like the one proposed by Arthur C. Clarke in the book *Fountains of Paradise* that would revolutionize travel into space. (If carbon fiber could be modified to be drawn, then flex, and coiled like steel wire, it might be a good candidate to try.)
Thanks again from across the Pacific on CAs (aka “Crazyfornia”) Central Coast, where the politicos in Sacramento can make the ones in Canberra seem to be the voice of Reason!
Here, they want to build high-speed trains through active fault zones!
😂😂😂😂😂
Omg she's done it again! She's tidied up, and I CAN"T FIND ANYTHING! She blinded me with science!
Virgin hyperloop? Absolute bollocks, John that thing was fucked before its conception!
That must be one hell of a vacuum pump, of course there will be no leaks and if the door seals fail you get suffocated or sucked out I take it, should have succeeded though as it had 6 cup holders and a fully interactive display 🤣🤣
Thanks for all of the informative sarcasm throughout the year. Wishing you and your family a safe and healthy 2024.
The john cleese quote was brilliant thankyou
Im glad you understand mathematics and science it makes you wonder
Sarcasm has a name! ... my favorite go to .. John Cadogan!! ... keep it up John and i wish you a healthy en prosperous 2024.
An Engineer dies and goes to hell. He's hot and miserable, so he decides to take action. The A/C has been busted for a long time, so he fixes it. Things cool down quickly.
The moving walkway motor jammed, so he unjams it. People can get from place to place more easily.
The TV was grainy and unclear, so he fixes the connection to the Satellite dish and now they get hundreds of high def channels.
One day, God decides to look down on Hell to see how his grand design is working out and notices that everyone is happy and enjoying umbrella drinks. He asks the Devil what's going on?
The Devil replies, "Things are great down here since you sent us that engineer."
"What?? An engineer? I didn't send you one of those, that must have been a mistake. Send him back up right this minute."
The Devil responds, "No way! We are going to keep our engineer. We like this guy."
God demands, "If you don't send him to me immediately, I'll sue!"
The Devil laughs. "Where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"
I am now feeling renewed pride in being an engineer!
He's gotta keep on selling that snake oil.
Hyperloop was more of a Shelbyville idea…
But Hyperloop has to work! It's in the "John Carter on Mars" novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Mars is a pipe dream also
"It's just a tube with a hockey table, it's really not that hard"
- Electric Hey-Zooss, c. 2015
Dunning-Kruger has come home to roost. Even Elon finally figured out it was a dead duck, many years after most of us looked at Hype loop and sadly shook our heads. He just failed to acknowledge the fact at the time so that someone else would get caught holding the big bag of shit.
Oh, he KNEW Hyperloop was just BS and it would fail, but the grift worked in two ways for EJ:
- he gained massively in money and fame
and maybe even more important:
- the hype around Hyperloop assured that EJ could take over other companies and even launch new companies with borrowed money, because so many rich people ánd governments fell for his BS
So no matter the outcome, for EJ Hyperloop has been a huge win-win project. It quietly died out because EJ simply stopped talking about it and refused to answer questions and instead his "new" BS projects took over and made him even richer.
Just another elite game of “pass the shit bag” then.
I might give him some slack here if Hyperloop was actually a train running on a bed of air. Not that this would necessarily be a workable solution. But at least it's more sensible than a vacuum tube.
I recall the air hockey table at the child care centre when I was in primary school. Half the time the thing wasn't plugged in, but we still played on it!
@@Biosynchro Ah, but then you don't understand the giant EGO that lives in an alternative reality that is Elon Musk.
You see, EJ comes up with a brain fart, probably something he saw or read in a sci-fi comic book and says: "that's what we're going to do" (read: I and I alone am going to do). So, he gathers his experienced engineers, who are experts in their fields, and tells what he wants them to do. If they try to talk reason to him, like: "this is way too ambitious" or "with the present state of technology this simply isn't possible or feasible", EJ immediately fires them for their "negative attitude", because he supposedly is a "can do" man. (read: EJ always knows better than you, very skilled and experienced engineers, even though he obviously doesn't have a single clue what he's talking about)
So, a vacuum tube it is and then a question-and-answer session between EJ and the engineers starts:
Q: How are we going to sustain that vacuum over a huge length of tube?
A: Don't know, don't care about details, you'll figure it out along the way.
Q: How are we going to get passengers into the vehicles without breaking the vacuum?
A: Don't know, don't care about the details, you'll figure it out along the way.
Q: .....
A: Stop asking questions and get working on my brilliant idea or I'll fire all of you.
At the end of the session some engineers who still have their dignity and/or pride, might say to EJ: "this isn't a plan, it's ill-thought-out wishful thinking" and EJ will fire them. In the end EJ is surrounded by yes-men/women only, who'll nod at everything he brain-farts and who'll try to make it happen, even though it doesn't make even a lick of sense. And obviously the project will flop, because it was never even feasible to begin with.
But that leaves EJ to point out that the engineers were/are simply too stupid to convert his "brilliant" plan into reality. Journalists then never ask him the most logical question: "EJ, as you call yourself the most knowledgeable engineer the world has ever seen, why didn't YOU fix the problems?", because that would make sense and EJ doesn't like being asked questions that make sense. EJ just wants to be admired and worshipped and he perceives that as his God-given right.
Naturally his cultist followers gobble up every bit of BS EJ brain-farts and they'll not just defend his ever more insane ideas; they'll actively and aggressively try to silence everyone who dares even doubt the "Genius" that is EJ. Which then encourages EJ to brain-fart even more outrageous ideas and you've reached a self-sustaining loop.
If you want some more insight into EJ's cult-leader behaviour, just look on RUclips at how more knowledgeable people are utterly destroying his "colony on Mars" brain fart by simply using logic and his own scarce data against him. The videos are called "debunking Elon Musk's (fill in the brain-fart)"
@@tjroelsmait beggars belief how people can worship the guy. His escape pod for the trapped kids in a cave was ludicrous and if it wasn’t for such a serious problem it would have been funny.
Sending people to Mars is never going to happen. There are so many reasons why it cannot happen. It is a total waste of money which could be used for a lot of better causes.
As a man who drives between Dubai and Abu Dhabi daily. I never even witnessed the infrastructure. Unlike Etihad Rail which you can see the imprint all over.
What about all those speed cameras every tenth light pole? Now that’s infrastructure!
@@charlestoast4051 Are you Talking about Every Face recognition Camera at the doors of every mall?
The Paris Pneumatique Post system worked with considerable success for more than a century. Elon's mistake was to focus on the technical part of the problem when he really just needed to work out how to make humans much, much smaller.
I don’t remember the name but there’s some idiots here in Canada talking about doing something like this in Canada. I think the plans to use an actual train like vehicle at least but it’s still extremely dumb
Happy New Year John, - Keeping the mongrels honest since the EH was freshly covered in lead paint and not a seat belt to be seen...
I had a EH Ute, loved it.
When my family brought a brand new EH they had it custom fitted with seat belts. I knew no one else with seat belts in their family cars. By the time governments made them compulsory in the 70s we were already conditioned to wearing seat belts at the insistence of our parents and we felt naked in other people's cars which did not have seat belts. My parents were ahead of the wave on that one.
I need a Cybertruck to protect myself from a Cybertruck. They are smashing-machines.
FSD Robot Wars anybody?
JC, you nail it every time dude !! The moment of reckoning can't come quick enough for all those idiots who are swallowing all this green net zero crap. Net Zero is a road to hell alright..keep em coming mate we love them in the UK.
Love your humor, thank you.
@13:21 "I've been dreaming of this day for years now" 😂😂😂
I spat my food out.
Happy new year John always brightens up my day with your wit and whats going on in the transportation world
But, he said it was not hard, according to the White Paper it was trivial! Well thank God he at least invented the electric motor and the battery..
He didn’t even come up with the idea for his EV’s - he just bought the company that was developing them.
Well then, thank God he just had a lot of money then. We can at least be thankful of that.
a simple version of the hyperloop has been around for many years in most jet aircraft. You push that button in the lav and slurp, it all gets transported under a vacuum out of sight and smell.
If the third missing element of "money and sex" is rock 'n' roll, I reckon the "stoner rock" band, Electric Jesus and the Thermal Runaways, has that covered. And if the answer was drugs, the above also has that covered.
Great content.
Stu. Melbourne
I'm more worried about sitting on the barely contained throne of chemical fire.
John, there is another ship on fire with EV cargo!
Those of us who understand basic physics knew this was not going to work 10 years ago. It's mind boggling that this thing is still going.
it's a shame this event will largely go unnoticed by most people. it should be a teaching moment where people learn to be more sceptical of people making extravagant claims before they've actually achieved anything
Well, THAT was unexpected !!
Now, I will watch the video.
ROOM= Ran out of Money
Brilliant.
I worked at a property years ago on the Morning Peninsula and the company that owned it done a research & development on Race Horse tracks.
It was funny
Moving sheds around some weeks I would relocate 10,000m3 for another change.
The kicker was the had rights to draw a huge amount of mains water because it was R&D, and the whole funny farm was 110% tax deductible.
Sure was a good ride though.
Regards Ken
The Hyperloop is an idea that's been recycled a few times. Saw it on another channel. An Australian channel called City Moose.
Thunderfoot
George Medhurst in 1799
Jeez Legend, hope Tiffany wasn't around when the Zucchini indecent was mentioned🙄
Happy New Year🥳
I remember that Monty Python skit about the late, deceased parrot !
It's a riot. 😁
Well done son great word smith, great fun
The Hyperloop scam wasn't meant as competition to planes. It was meant to stop high-speed rail projects, particularly in the US.
Half a billion could build a lot of track...
Thankyou John, all the best for the new year. Between you and Drain cleaning Australia, I feel good.
"A fool and his money are soon parted"
EJ’s thought bubble is more like a fart bubble and a hot tub. Why doesn’t he repurpose the cyber truck for his hyper loop project. You could take care of two awful ideas at once.
Happy new Year ,I enjoy your videos.
Thanks Bob - HNY to you too mate.
All of this reminds me of the Simpsons monorail episode. And the literal Sydney monorail project.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY YOUNG MAN
What a video! I haven't seen video so packed with top quality sarcasm! Nerds salute you for Mobius strip! ;)
We can't even build rail links in the UK anymore. Can't see a HyperLoop any time soon..
John, they should call it Hyperpoop. 💩; keep up the fabulous journalism that tells it like it is.
That bloody T shirt again John, with the stack back to front? Still a cool T shirt. On Apollo 13 The LM did the TEI as you know, not the CSM.
What I liked about this form of transport, before Elon wetted the bed on it, is that you can let gravity input a lot of the speed. Put the tube low, or under the sea even, and you gain amazing speed with no own propulsion. Braking at the other end also due to gravity. Only input power to maintain speed and getting a start on the flat.
December 1, 2022, PepsiCo received the first Semis of their large order for use with Pepsi beverage and Frito-Lay snack food transportation fleets.[7] PepsiCo Vice President Mike O'Connell stated that the Semis can haul Frito-Lay food products for around 425 miles (684 km), but for heavier loads of sodas, the trucks will do shorter trips of around 100 miles (160 km)
Except in Winter, when these distances will be reduced. Expect to see this fleet quietly phased out.
Thanks, happy 2024. Stay healthy, wild and crazy.
As I too anticipate the impending confluence of peak incompetence and peak bullshit - both, sadly, originating here in UK - it occurs to me that I must not fail to send you my thanks for a most entertaining and informative year ( in which I learned more about vehicle safety non- testing than is good for me) and to wish you a delightful and RUclips-productive new year.
14:49
Nice work bud! I very much like your sarcasm
A ten minute sanity check whiteboard session seems to have been omitted from the first morning of this project.
Funny thing is, the hyperloop could actually work on mars. The air is so thin there is almost no air resistance.
I'd mention your forgetting Hyperloop "pining for the fjords", but Norway, to its credit, stayed clear of this particular boondoggle, in spite of having a particularly strong Tesla fetish.
I feel a merger coming up beween SpaceX and Hyperloop. Put all that, now unused, tube vertical, have the vacuum of space suck the air out and up goes your rocket. For free! I't'll be caledl Hyper-Space, of course. I'll be selling stock on Monday.
Yeah... A long vertical tube could bring the vacuum of space to ground level! With an infinite supply of vacuum, the difficulty of maintaining a vacuum in a long Hyperloop tube vanishes! But of course, there's the risk of sucking all of the atmosphere and losing it to the void of space so there needs to be adequate safety measures. But I swear it's very simple!!
@@mmmikeyyy Sorry. Mel Brooks already invented something like that in Spaceballs.
The Large Hadron Collider was actually a form of hyperloop. Magnetic levitation and acceleration in a vacuum. It cost USD4.75 Billion to move tiny particles around a 27Km loop. Many bigger brains involved in that project I would venture.
At a rather higher top speed though...
Who would have imagined that putting a MAGLEV inside a vastly complex vacuum tube would end up more expensive than a mere MAGLEV which is more expensive than high speed rail? I for one am baffled that they couldn't pull of this genius idea.
I'm sad the project never got to the point of having build a 30+ kilometer long tube ready for opening, when in the flickering light of repeated startup mishaps with the circuit breakers of the nearby powerplant people finally start to wonder: is it really a good idea to get inside that thing?
"It's really not that hard. Yuk yuk yuk."
E. Musk
My daily driver does more than 120mph any day of the week. I've gotten speeding tickets for going faster than that Hyperpoop suppository. I not only live at that speed, I have a BLAST!
Hyperloop was an idea imagined in 1799, by inventor George Medhurst, and never made it then. The fact folks still believe the trash he spoke about it is astounding.
"It's like a tube with an air hockey table, it's just a low pressure tube, with a pod in it that runs on air bearings, on air skis. With an air compressor on the front that is taking the high pressure air built on the nose and pumping it through the air skis. It's really, I swear it's not that hard,” said by Elon Musk
EJ tried to say the wheel was very profound, after his icehockey tube failed miserable.
investors were idiots
If we only had the technology that we had in the 60s when we went to the moon 😂
Its lost forever! Perhaps it has something to do with rocketman Wernher von Brauns gravestone. Sometimes people wants to tell the thruth, even if they have to wait untill they are dead!
I have one question the van allen radiation belt. They picked the right time to go through and back in 1969, but in 2023, they will not send any human up there
Yes we can get to low earth orbit that's easy.
Lost in space
@@hakan8997yes reverse engineering only go so far. Someone else with a gift let’s say , might come in 100 years or so.
Regarding technology, Artemis 1 did elaborate transfer orbit around the Moon and back recently, in 2022. New Horizons was launched to the Pluto and beyond in circa 2000's. The landings of Curiosity, Perseverance and operation of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars were far more complex than landings on the Moon.
Regarding van Allen belts. I don't understand the constant %bation over the radiation by %norants. Van Allen belts are functionality absent over the poles, but flying trough them isn't impossible. Astronauts would receive one year worth of background radiation per hour, maybe more, depending on solar activity and shielding of the spacecraft, so the timing and good trajectory are important. We don't send humans, because there is no need and business for humans in outer space. Exploration of solar system by probes and rovers is two orders of magnitude cheaper. ISS stays mostly under belts, but sometimes astronauts have to shelter when station is flying trough lower belts and sun activity is high.
"Brogan BamBrogan" , sounds a bit like the Catch 22 novel's "Major Major Major" !!
What investors bought was beautiful graphics and more musk vaporware.
This is like the sous vide of transport.
We don't joke about invisible choirs here. Only aspire to join them before and after our time.
Running costs could have been cheap if only they'd set it up in Australia and had figured out a way of capturing all the hot air emitted in Canberra.
I am surprised that 'hyperloop' did not make an appearance in 'The Simpsons', any one who loves the Simpsons will recognise 'what you need is a monorail' quote, what happened to 'you need a hyperloop'..
Thunderf00t will have to go back to playing with science, at least on this topic.
I suppose Engineers know the Secret of the Universe and everything as they get their maths skills to work.
Unlike the Middle Men and Mice.
Happy New Year JC keep it coming. Jeff Moore
Greatly looking forward to your response to the first CyberTruck accident - reported yesterday!
For the Yanks who seem to be allergic to speed.
107mph is a dangerous high speed and 300 police cars will be giving chase.
Here in the EU 107mph. You are holding up traffic, move over slow poke.
That's about it for Neom City, as they need a hyperloop so residents can leave their condo neighborhoods.
hi john totally love your videos you make them so funny keep up the fab videos and have good new year
Imagine if the government had decided this was the future and only hyperloops could be sold for public transportation, kind of like they're doing with EV's. What are the odds that politicians can correctly choose the "best" technology of any kind for our entire future?
Can't stop the inlet manifold leaking in my Escort!!
170 kmh? Wow! Even in Australia with some very backward and neglected trains that speed can be reached by some some of our trains, if only our tracks were up to it. If even some Australian railways can beat hyperloop I can only think that hype was all the hyperloop was about. Never mind Japan, China, France and Spain.
You could (probably) also get to 170 in a Kia Picanto.
Hyperloop was just hyperloopy. It will probably never die (never in the minds of the cultists) until someone decides to build one and a hundred souls end up like those intrepid explorers in the Titan when the whole thing implodes.
As the principal for a rather large railway I looked at hyperloop about a decade ago and concluded "yeah - nar". What a waste of money. Rail is an industry with incredible up front costs but this was never going to fly for so many reasons.
Well thank you John, now i will never get the image of a tri breasted graphene jump suit out of my head.
I got an idea for a monorail that loops around the Sydney CBD, I'm going to make a fortune!
You can't really blame Brogan BamBrogan's name on his parents, as he was born a plain, ordinary Kevin Brogan. It was when he married his wife, Bambi Liu that they decided to combine names in that rather odd way, and named themselves Brogan and Bambi BamBrogan respectively. When working at Space X, he often went by the nickname K-Bro.
John you're like a bot overlord 😀.