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LA to SF--in 30 minutes!

MoodyBlues said:
I was just thinking about how far we've come. Can you imagine the folks back in the 'horseless carriage' or early train days saying it ONLY does 268 MPH... :D
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LOL.. :D think there was some rules about the original horseless carriages, that a man had to walk in front of them waving a flag.

That's it's normal passenger service speed, it can do 310MH. I've been on it a few times. At that sort of speed when looking out the window best to keep one's eyes on something in the distance, otherwise everything is just a blur I found. There's plenty of videos of the Shanghai Maglev on YouTube. Couldn't even imagine travelling 760 MPH at ground level. It would have to be extremely streamlined, like those land speed record cars.

There was some idea once of an undersea trans-atlantic transit system. Travelling at thousands of miles per hour, and running the trains in a vacuum. Europe to America in two hours or something crazy like that.
 
I remember sonic booms from when I was growing up in Tucson AZ.
The military aircraft from Davis Monathon AFB would cause several each day.
I also remember the air raid sirens going off each Saturday at 1:00 pm for testing purposes.
Those were the days.
Progress....mostly a good thing, but some wonderful things go away forever.:rolleyes:
 
The one and only time I ever heard sonic booms when I lived in Texas was Saturday, February 1, 2003. The house shook, the windows rattled, my two little children (Freddie Mercury and his sister, Queen--who were Great Danes but thought they were human :D), ran around the house with bewildered looks, and I said...well, I can't actually SAY here what I said. :eek: I had no idea what had happened. And then I started seeing scrolling 'breaking news' on TV about the space shuttle Columbia being missing...no contact with Mission Control...then, of course, the news that it had broken up over north Texas. :(
 
Hyperloop revealed: It’s a big, long, magnetic air hockey table

Musk previously said the Hyperloop is immune to weather, doesn’t need rails, can’t crash, and isn’t based on an evacuation tunnel. Musk also claims that the transportation system runs entirely off solar panels, and stores the energy within itself without needing batteries. This, of course, led us all to believe that Musk figured out how to create Futurama’s prism railroad.
 
I remember years ago some guy came up with a non depleting shuttle transport using crystals and laser beams and was to be tested between earth and our moon
 
breadnatty08 said:
Perhaps, and likely costs a ton to ride. :rolleyes:
No seriously, Acela is generally more expensive than a plane ride.
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If believe it, but it probably is way more comfortable than flying. I haven't used it myself, but regular amtrak is better than flying Imo.
 
They had flying cars in Back to the Future Part II, and that was suppose to be 2015. So maybe only 2 years away :p
 
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