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I can't believe how many adults actually fall for this garbage. There's too much that's just broken about it, from fundamental design to implementation.

Some people LOVE bad ideas.

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Please don't post unsubstantive dismissals to HN. Claiming grandly that an idea is broken (and putting other people down) adds no information.

On HN, the idea is to post civilly and substantively, or not at all. For example, neutrally explaining how an idea is broken would be substantive.

That's nice and all but the article itself lists all of those, and this would be a reaction to the article itself, instead of repeating it.

(I'm assuming everyone read the article?)

>Some people LOVE bad ideas.

That immediately reminded - state owned Russian Railways Corp has just recently publicly expressed huge interest in it :)

Russia may be one place this technology makes sense. They have to rebuild the Trans-Siberian Railway anyway to get it up to modern standards, so why not skip ahead to something faster than a subsonic flight to Vladivostok? Additionally, an elevated tube might be able to take a more direct route, as the pylons could better deal with permafrost than a continuous roadbed.

Paying for it is left as an exercise to the voter.

Is it not used for freight?

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