planes trains and automobiles despite being a fantastic film starring Steve
Martin and the late great John Candy they have also traditionally been the
only way to reverse the landscapes of our modern earth but what if there was
something better what if you could get on board a vehicle in London take a seat
in a capsule for 20 or so minutes and find yourself stepping out into Morocco
it may sound like the stuff of science fiction and well it is technically but
in actuality we're closer than you may think toward instantaneous global travel
let me introduce you to the Hyperloop Network and let's figure out just how
and why it could potentially change everything forever
hello Internet what's going on and once again welcome back to the most
inquisitive channel on YouTube life's biggest questions as per usual help your
disembodied voice Jack Finch as today we chose to ask the question what if earth
had a global Hyperloop network rather grip
for the curious amongst you that clip was from 2015's Tomorrowland which
wasn't exactly the greatest movie of all time but had some stunning visual
depictions of a highly advanced technological society and yet thankfully
for us we won't need to travel to an alternate dimension to experience the
functions of Hyperloop technology because as I said previously we're much
closer than you may expect to achieving instantaneous global transportation but
Before we jump into the implications of a Hyperloop network on a global scale
let's first take a quick look at just exactly what this thing is in essence a
Hyperloop is a mode of transportation that consists of a system of sealed
tubes through which a pod like vessel is propelled free of our resistance or
friction conveying people or objects and massive speeds while also being very
efficient in essence is what you get if you cross a railway with those pneumatic
mail chutes you see in the post office just on a massive scale but actually the
biggest proponent of the Hyperloop concept the man himself Elon Musk who
initially publicly proposed the Hyperloop back in 2012 described it as a
cross between a Concorde a railgun and an air hockey table so there we go
another thing that Elon Musk is better than me
analogies must mark the prospect of a hypothetical Hyperloop system with
having five key characteristics for being successful for civilization one
being immune to all weather two being able to operate collision-free three
capable of traveling at twice the speed of a plane four operating at a low power
consumption and five containing enough infrastructure and energy storage to
operate at 24 hours a day through this model of operation it hypothetically
hits all the marks of any society's transportation wish list because in
essence that everything anyone has ever wanted from mass transportation move
people and things from A to B in the fastest possible way in the most
efficient manner let me break down these five key characteristics we can avidly
see the flaws in our current modes of mass transit planes are awesome but they
burn a hell of a lot of fossil fuels and it takes massive amount of energy to
propel a giant steel bird 100 35,000 feet in the air for a few hours
cars are fun and sleek and stylish but sitting in traffic sucks and breathing
in noxious fumes isn't exactly everyone's cup of tea
boats are great they're full of adventure and nautical romance but
they're slow and they have a habitual history of leaking so the alternative
then as is the course of human history would rely on a breakthrough of
technology and that's exactly what the Hyperloop concept is and also as you may
or may not know it's already been doing it for years now as Elon Musk's SpaceX
and Tesla have opened source the same conceptual technology to everyone and
since then dozens of researchers and engineers have jumped on the idea at
trying their damnedest to shoot a pod through a tube in the safest and most
efficient means possible it seems simple when you say like that doesn't it and in
actual fact one of those open-source compadres Richard Branson's Virgin
Hyperloop one recently signed an intent agreement with the Indian government to
construct a Hyperloop system between Mumbai and the city of Pune which will
cut a four hour journey to just 25 minutes and once that's out of the way
after that the possibilities are endless Las Vegas to Los Angeles in 30 minutes
Toronto to Montreal in 39 minutes Abu Dhabi to Dubai in just 12 minutes it
sounds awesome right and one thing's for certain our planet would become much
more efficient but here's the stick-in-the-mud anything that requires
a lot of people as in the mass transportation and we shifting of
populations that a global Hyperloop network would deliver also requires a
lot of governance how would we deal with a Hyperloop journey that connected three
different cities in three different countries along its route would we have
to breach customs in every country because bureaucracy has a habit of
slowing things down whereas the Hyperloop prime directive is to speed
things up one of the glaringly obvious advantages of a global Hyperloop Network
is the theoretical advantage of being able to commute from pretty much
anywhere and everywhere on the planet in theory you could live in Glasgow and
travel to work in Paris every morning with less stress than the average city
commute in a bus or a car you can spend a half a day in Mexico City then be in
Las Vegas for dinner but the thing is would cities deal with this new untapped
influx of people if London suddenly gained tens of thousands of new workers
from Helsinki in his daily commute that didn't even live there is that going to
boost the economy or just put more strain on the city's infrastructure how
would the municipal factor be effective who's going to check their passports and
then there's the whole issue of safety the main advantage of a Hyperloop
network is in its ability to transport a vessel at speeds of up to 800 miles per
hour while it's also travelling in an airtight vacuum but what happens when a
natural disaster strikes what if an earthquake shifts its tube system ever
so slightly how would Emergency Services even get
inside a tube system that is devoid of all air to save the people inside and
now apply all of those issues thousands of times a day across the planet who's
going to keep an eye on all of those potential disasters who's going to be
checking the dials and monitoring the bleeps and the red flashing lights
well artificial intelligence that's who a global artificial intelligence for
that matter and hopefully its name won't be Skynet you see all of these are valid
safety issues but all of them have a feasible answer and explanation that's
already been thought of during its design the issue isn't in addressing
these safety concerns or any other concerns for that matter it's in the
execution of them you see people are slow bureaucracy and safety features
take manpower and effort but with a global artificial intelligence
monitoring every step of the way in a millionth billionth of a second at all
times constantly never blinking and never
sleeping all of these concerns would be efficiently directly and swiftly
addressed the advantages of connecting our planet through global transportation
technology are just way too good to pass up and eventually efficiency will always
win out in the past few decades our planet has become smaller and smaller as
connectivity through technological means has proliferated its way across our
civilization like pokemon cards in a playground the first Hyperloop route is
set to begin construction this year in India with speculative reports from the
first operational journeys beginning in 2021 with countless other cities already
bidding for their own Hyperloop construction set to shortly follow
afterwards if a civilization figure out a way to balance the many
needs and parameters of a global Hyperloop network and apply it to every
corner of the earth the rewards are endless and our planet would be more
connected than ever before Hey the futures pre exciting isn't it well
there we have it the way that we see things if earth was connected by global
Hyperloop Network it'd be pretty damn awesome to say the least what about you
guys do you see some serious flaws or other potential benefits to a
transportation system like this let us know your thoughts down in the comment
section below and hey maybe we can have a pretty decent conversation about the
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