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Why We Should Have Known Hyperloop Would Fail

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Sep 17, 2024
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Attention conservation notice: 16-minute read

There was a time, not that long ago, when we thought the future of transportation was to combine a rocket ship and a Thermos.

This turns out to have been a bad idea, but it's worth spending a bit of time exploring why it didn't seem that way at first, so that we can avoid mistakes like this in future.

What make…

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