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" The most surprising thing about the Miracle on the Hudson wasn&amp;#039;t that Captain Sully was able to clear the George Washington Bridge or land that plane just right on the watery strip between Manhattan and New Jersey. It was that all those passengers, the ones who came this close to dying in a goddamned plane crash, dragged themselves back to airports and got on other planes within hours. They wanted to get home, and who could blame them? Despite all our fears, we really do set them aside when it comes to getting places in hours rather than days or weeks as our ancestors did. And that&amp;#039;s precisely why there is really no doubt in my mind how we shall greet Elon Musk&amp;#039;s Hyperloop, which would connect Los Angeles and San Francsico, if it ever gets built: In Musk&amp;#039;s vision, the Hyperloop would transport people via aluminum pods enclosed inside of steel tubes. He describes the design as looking like a shotgun with the tubes running side by side for most of the journey and closing the loop at either end. These tubes would be mounted on columns 50 to 100 yards apart, and the pods inside would travel up to 800 miles per hour. Oh wait, and one more little detail: The front of the pod would have a pair of air jet inlets\u2014sort of like the Concorde. Yes, Musk plans to stuff you into a human-sized shotgun shell then fire you off into some lightly pressurized purgatory exactly 30 seconds after the last sucker and 30 seconds before the one after you. And you will do it. The reason for that is simple, and would be obvious by now if you had any math skills whatsoever. You&amp;#039;ll be in San Francisco in 30 minutes.  While nothing like the Hyperloop has ever seen the light of day, it isn&amp;#039;t some fantasy either. As a scientist assured Businessweek, which got the exclusive on Musk&amp;#039;s plan, the system is based on &amp;quot;known technology,&amp;quot; including some &amp;quot;used at amusement parks to get a roller coaster going.&amp;quot;  READ TOM JUNOD&amp;#039;S PROFILE OF ELON MUSK "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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