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To: bentway who wrote (800567)8/9/2014 1:55:46 PM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1583677
 
It's not a new idea, and didn't originate with Musk:

I know that......I said its been the stuff of scifi for years.....meaning since I first started reading scifi as a kid. Its just that Musk has been the one in this country whose been talking it up a lot recently.

en.wikipedia.org

China's on it..


Thanks. Good to see that.............although I believe China's predictions about as much as I believe everything Snowden says.



To: bentway who wrote (800567)8/9/2014 2:10:25 PM
From: combjelly  Respond to of 1583677
 
Sort of. It is a more practical approach. Instead of evacuating the whole tube, just the part in front of the capsule is partially evacuated. A lot lower energy cost.