Instead of giving money to super-PACs, I think the nation’s wealthy should pool their resources and make this happen.
Dubbed “space travel on Earth,” the new tech combines the idea of maglev — trains that are suspended by magnets — with vacuum tubes. By removing air resistance and friction from the equation, the new vactrains could reach speeds of up to 4,000 miles per hour. You could travel from New York to Los Angeles in only 45 minutes, or from New York to London in an hour. At those speeds, you would arrive at your destination at a time before you left. […]
The unusual travel tech has proven successful in a laboratory setting, but has yet to make its way into the real world. The biggest barrier to the technology is, predictably, the cost. A 350mph local system would cost about $2 million per mile to install. Once built, however, the system would cost very little to operate — according to Oster, the cost of travel will be less than a penny per mile.
Insane.
I should know better by now, but sometimes the internet tells me to do something and I do it. Which is why I drank Mexican Coke with peanuts in it. And now my stomach is all: Why. Why do you do this to us. You are a god damn jagoff. And I’m like: The internet said! And my stomach just turns away, unable to even look at me.
Heh…
