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[-] Zorque@kbin.social 25 points 6 months ago

Well... testing is how you figure out how to make it feasible, though.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Its literally just not worth it, all while being stunningly dangerous. When a zero pressure vacuum ruptures, it violently contracts, generally crushing itself.

This will require a zero pressure vessel as wide as a train, that is hundreds or thousands of miles long to be viable. One hole in the thousand mile line will shut the whole system down while it's repaired and then depressurized. This strands any other trains in the tunnel until this is done, so your "superspeed" tunnel is really super slow. Even if they have some kind of "safety valvue at set intervals that means the whole line doesnt go down on pressure gain, you still cant use the rest of the line.

So for this to work, you need multiple redundant tunnels, all of which can be taken down by one person with a gun at any point along a long, long track.

So you can spend just endless billions, literally hundreds of billions, making these redundant train tunnels that still aren't redundant, or you can spin up 10x-100x as much HSR that goes 300km and actually interlink the country with truly redundant and fast transportation.

[-] birdcat@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

what about the crushing? will it be imminent? like there is a small failure somewhere in the tunnel and all passengers are crushed within a second? no way im ever going on that.

[-] tobbue@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago

I'm more concerned about becoming a meat noodle from getting sucked through a goofball sized hole when there is a leak in the train hull.

[-] birdcat@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

cool, didnt even think about that. i asked a ~~scientist~~ GPT and

...the remains of the human would likely follow a trajectory similar to the initial ejection path. The trail could potentially extend for kilometers ..... However, the trail would not be uniform. It would likely start more concentrated and become increasingly dispersed over distance ...

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