The Hyperloop: BUSTED!

Thunderf00t isn't just some average Joe on the street. The guy has a PhD in chemistry and has dedicated a decade to educate the world at large about matters of science and intellectualism. The world would be a better place if we had more Thunderf00ts on YouTube. His videos on the hyperloop are pretty comprehensive and succinct about their reasoning. Why not watch them instead of mindlessly repeating the same strawman argument that every other Elon Musk fanboy/fangirl left on his videos? [LINK] [VIDEO]

British scientist Philip E. Mason ( thunderfoot ) made several skeptical videos on Hyperloop. [VIDEO] I highly recommend his whole Busted! series.

I'm happy for them, but I'm yet to hear for anybody to address the major challenges that many people have raised. The major one being - the sudden pressurization in any point and the consequent shockwave traveling at the speed of sound, exploding the tube, killing everything in its way. Thunderf00t did a good job summarizing the problems: [VIDEO]

I think this needs to be brought to more people's attention, so I'm putting this in a top level comment: Thunderf00t's video: [VIDEO] Debunked: [LINK] Also debunked: [LINK]

The best legitimate criticisms I've seen are here: [VIDEO] Basically expansion and contraction as well as just plain vulnerability of running a vacuum make it extremely difficult to do practically. The phrase he uses, "all the problems of space travel except in a gun barrel" is a pretty accurate description of the issue. Any loss of vacuum will almost guarantee loss of life. No realistic demo has been done even on a small scale as of yet.

The tone and sarcasm of this video aside, the guy makes strong arguments that the Hyperloop cannot work technically. Worth watching as he makes good arguments. [VIDEO] edit: actually it can work technically, but it's not practical at all

If you haven't seen the technical criticisms of Hyperloop, Thunderf00t has an interesting video: [VIDEO] I haven't seen most of the issues he raises addressed.

Thunderf00t has a good video on the problems with it. [VIDEO] He has some other good videos (solar roadways) but tends to spend to much time bashing creationists.