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With the addition of Hyperloop, Elon Musk is basically transforming transportation in all possible ranges: - Short-range (in-city, cross-city): Tesla - Medium
by garindra 13y ago
With the addition of Hyperloop, Elon Musk is basically transforming transportation in all possible ranges:
- Short-range (in-city, cross-city): Tesla
- Medium-range/long-range (cross-state, possibly cross-country & cross-continent): Hyperloop
- Ultra-long-range (cross-planetary, possibly cross-galactic): SpaceX
- eshvk 13y agoI would be more intrigued how Hyperloop would play as a competing technology vs Tesla for short range commutes say SF to San Jose. Would hyperloop be discouraged for such "short-range" routes because Tesla could then pick up the slack? Or would they assume that those who used Hyperloop were probably never going to buy a car?
- garindra 13y agoI don't think Tesla would worry for Hyperloop in the case of SF-to-SJ type commutes -- BART and Caltrain would probably be the ones who should worry. In fact in the US, I don't think there'd be a case where Tesla would worry about Hyperloop at all, as it's pretty car-driven culturally and architecturally -- people in general are walking-averse and still need cars to get to places that are between "stations". It might be different in other places like Europe or Asia though.
- Uchikoma 13y ago"possibly cross-galactic" Hyperbole? Or do you know something about the physics of cross-galactic travel that the rest of us don't?
- jlgreco 13y agoBring back Project Orion and generation ships to alpha centauri become feasible, just hard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)#Interstellar_missions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsi... I don't know of anyone that is seriously looking at Orion anymore though. I suspect that whatever will eventually take us there will be to Orion as the Flying Scotsman is to Hero's Engine.
- qxcv 13y agoA trip to Alpha Centauri would be decidedly intra-galactic; the distance from the Sun to the edge of our galaxy is on the order of 4300 times the distance from the Sun to Alpha Centauri.
- jlgreco 13y agoYes, calling it "cross" galactic would certainly be stretching the definition of "cross". Though I suppose a "cross country" race is across the "countryside" though not across the country. ;)
- yk 13y agoJudging from the last two space operas i have read, the fashion is sending transhumans on single generation ships ( and playing with internal clocks to manage the subjective boredom). And there are certainly a few people looking at interstellar travel. A great blog about this is http://www.centauri-dreams.org/ http://www.centauri-dreams.org/