<story><title>Hyperloop: riding sound’s density peak to exploit the drag equation?</title><url>http://charlesalexander2013.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/hyperloop-riding-sounds-density-peak-to-exploit-the-drag-equation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geon</author><text>I wonder i Elon really has a plan, or if he is just kickstarting everyones speculations to come up with an &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; viable design.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smoyer</author><text>The guy launches rockets and builds electric sports cars ... I tend to think he has a plan.  Allowing the speculation to persist might improve that plan but I suspect it was viable on it&amp;#x27;s own (and perhaps the waiting period was simply to allow some small scale testing to occur).</text></comment>
<story><title>Hyperloop: riding sound’s density peak to exploit the drag equation?</title><url>http://charlesalexander2013.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/hyperloop-riding-sounds-density-peak-to-exploit-the-drag-equation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geon</author><text>I wonder i Elon really has a plan, or if he is just kickstarting everyones speculations to come up with an &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; viable design.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgreco</author><text>To be honest that is what my money was originally on.. that or this just being some sort of self-constructed mythology for himself, sort of like free wirelessly transmitted power was for Tesla perhaps (though more &amp;#x27;intentionally&amp;#x27; and less &amp;#x27;mistakenly&amp;#x2F;delusionally&amp;#x27;).&lt;p&gt;As time goes on he keeps getting more and more specific with his deadline for going public though.  First it was &amp;quot;eventually&amp;quot;, then it was &amp;quot;sometime after Tesla is profitable&amp;quot;, then it was &amp;quot;sometime later this year&amp;quot;, now we&amp;#x27;ve actually got a date to look forward to.  I now think that he actually is thinking of something.</text></comment>