> yes, you're still dealing with air resistance, thats why the hyperloop pods have serodynamic shapes. they thought of that they knew all along > and no, its not going implode. the entire fucking point of it is to not implode like a normal vacuum tube thats the entire pitch of the project thats the big selling point if you can make aerodynamic pods, then you can make aerodynamic pods not in a tube. and "making it so it won't implode" is one of those hurdles left to future inventors i guess. tanks designed to hold high pressure still implode handily under partial vacuum. the atmosphere above everything is fucking heavy. really really really fucking heavy. vacuum chambers are extremely highly reinforced and almost always very small because it becomes exponentially harder to hold out all of the pressure the bigger they are.
United States