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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (78570)	7/26/2017 9:31:38 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Elon Musk's ability to get politicians to spend the people's money on his endeavors is scary. It's not just Tesla and batteries to hang on walls. He has plans to build a colony on Mars that the taxpayers will finance. Also plans for hyperloops that will move people through tubes (some underground, some above ground) at 700 mph. Naturally his Mars colony will have a hyperloop too: According to Musk, Hyperloop would be useful on Mars as no tubes would be needed because Mars' atmosphere is about 1% the density of the Earth's. [11] [51] [52] For the Hyperloop concept to work on Earth, low-pressure tubes are required to reduce air resistance. However, if they were to be built on Mars, the lower air resistance would allow a Hyperloop to be created with no tube, only a track. [53] wikipedia