Are you ready to travel from New York to Los Angeles in 45 minutes? My answer is no, because I can’t imagine any reason to be in either place and if I was in one, I would not want to go to the other. However, according to Yahoo News, futuristic high speed tube travel could make such a trip happen in the not so distant future. How about a trip from New York to Beijing in two hours?
A company called ET3 has plans in the works for the Evacuated Tube Transport, a high speed transportation tube that uses magnetic levitation. The ETT can travel at speeds of up to 4,000 miles per hour, according to the report. I don’t want to ride it, but I would like to see it take off and then stop.
The company claims that passengers need not worry about discomfort traveling that fast. The high velocity at which the tubes move is equal to 1G of force at top speed, which is similar to the force felt by someone traveling in a car on the freeway. I’ve see some drivers on the freeway that have to be pulling 4Gs.
When and if the tubes make their debut in the next decade, they will initially be used to transport freight, not people. You might want to order a crate of eggs and have them shipped first, before you decide to crawl into one of those things. If the eggs come out scrambled, you may want to rethink buying a ticket on the first trip.
I’m going to wait until they have a route from mi casa to WallyMart.
PMO
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