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Yep, it was a dream too impossible for the world in the late 1800s / early 1900s too.
Turns out making a train or maglev inside of a vaccuum tube is more expensive and has insourmountable technical challenges when compared to making...
You know a train or maglev outside of a vaccuum tube.
For christs sake, Elons original napkin sketch was a train with a giant air intake on the front that would push air downward to make the train float and also propel it forward.
You know.
In a vaccuum tube. Where there is no air.
huh, it's almost like it was only barely designed enough so that it could wreck and steal funding from serious public transport proposals for parties interested in never seeing those happen
I don't even think this grift stole much funding from public transit. Its funders were overwhelmingly private sector idiots.