<story><title>The Hyperloop was always a scam</title><url>https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-scam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Closi</author><text>This (thunderf00t) is the same person that said that the Falcon 9 was a scam and a reusable rocket wasn&amp;#x27;t going to work.&lt;p&gt;The defence of Musk is &amp;quot;Musk has lots of ideas, and some worked out and some didn&amp;#x27;t&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>junon</author><text>Related thunderf00t videos: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;ZHjrFKfyZrw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;ZHjrFKfyZrw&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;RNFesa01llk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;RNFesa01llk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those are for Elon&amp;#x27;s; Virgin also has a hyperloop which he&amp;#x27;s covered too: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;VrbstnzbhZA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;VrbstnzbhZA&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;EeWcQf9QCmg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;EeWcQf9QCmg&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>preisschild</author><text>The fastest Falcon 9 turnaround time was still 54 days, the same as the fastest Space Shuttle refurbishment. Gwyne Shotwell herself said that it needs to come down to a few hours.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Hyperloop was always a scam</title><url>https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-scam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Closi</author><text>This (thunderf00t) is the same person that said that the Falcon 9 was a scam and a reusable rocket wasn&amp;#x27;t going to work.&lt;p&gt;The defence of Musk is &amp;quot;Musk has lots of ideas, and some worked out and some didn&amp;#x27;t&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>junon</author><text>Related thunderf00t videos: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;ZHjrFKfyZrw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;ZHjrFKfyZrw&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;RNFesa01llk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;RNFesa01llk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those are for Elon&amp;#x27;s; Virgin also has a hyperloop which he&amp;#x27;s covered too: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;VrbstnzbhZA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;VrbstnzbhZA&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;EeWcQf9QCmg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;EeWcQf9QCmg&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x3n0ph3n3</author><text>I really appreciated thunderf00t for a long time and liked his debunking videos. There came a point where he had such a hard-on for hating Musk that he seemed to lose a lot of objectivity, particularly when it comes to SpaceX.</text></comment>