Tesla gigafactory says hello,(reply>), @***** Offended? Don't worry your pretty little head over it. It's hard to even take you seriously after your previous two comments.,(reply>), @***** That's exactly what I'm talking about. SpaceX aims to drastically reduce the cost of space travel, as that's the only way you're gonna get people going to Mars. I'm not sure why I'm being insulted for asking a genuine question.,(reply>), "This one's the most flawed"<br>More flawed than his dream of colonizing Mars?,(reply>), that and the seals were made of leather because plastics just simply weren't there and rats ate them,(reply>), The vacuum train you speak of was from victorian era. A maglev train in an evacuated tube is a much different beast...<br><br>The one cannot be compared to the other for purposes of saying "the Hyperloop will not work."<br><br>The vacuum train did work, by the way. Just never very fast or reliably (because it was the victorian era and things like standardized parts hadn't been invented yet), and wound up being more of a tourist attraction than anything.