1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Hey, March is tripod month, my friend, and you know 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: what that means. Yes, that means it's time to let 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: people know about your favorite podcasts, just to share the 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: sheer joy of podcast listening. That's right, it's t r 5 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: y pod still in nascent industry. A lot of people 6 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: don't know what podcasts are and helps everybody out if 7 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:24,240 Speaker 1: you would go out and just say, hey, family member, 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: who I see it? Thanksgiving once a year? Right, you 9 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: should try out this thing called a podcast. Here's what 10 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: they are. Here's a cool show you should try, and 11 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: here's how to get it. Yeah, and it doesn't have 12 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 1: to be our show, just any podcast you like in 13 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: general that you think someone else would like, just share it. Yeah, 14 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: so get on board the dry pod train. Welcome to 15 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: stuff you should know from how stuff works dot com. Hey, 16 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's 17 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: Charles W. Chuck Bryant say hi hello, and there's Jerry Jerry. 18 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: Jerry can't talk because the tape is still holding after 19 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: all these years. Yeah, it's amazing. Well, at any rate 20 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: it stuff you should know that tape has gotten kind 21 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: of gross that there's like hair stuck to it. We should. 22 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: We should swap it out every now and then, she screams, 23 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: though every time we do. Well, the little slit that 24 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: we have cut so she can drink her mi so 25 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: through a straw is getting gamy. Yeah, I think some 26 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,119 Speaker 1: of that miso has a little bit of meat in it. 27 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 1: Oh you didn't like that one? Huh? No, I find 28 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: that satisfying. Um. I find it ironic that we're um 29 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: podcasting today on this fast thing because I am. I've 30 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: had the lowest energy today any day I can think 31 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: of in a long time. They need to bring Surge 32 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: back just for days like today, man, because I would 33 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: strongly recommend you drink a Surge brand beverage. I'm not 34 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: into those things, dude. Serge was so good. I'm just 35 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: I'm not into any of them. But I've had I've 36 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: tried one once when I was super low energy. I'm 37 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 1: not gonna name it, but um, it made me feel 38 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: like I was gonna have a heart attack. Oh yeah, 39 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: it's like this doesn't feel good? Yeah, no, not at all. 40 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: So what about coffee? You've been drinking coffee lately? Right? 41 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: Have you fallen off of that? I've fallen off, but 42 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: I did. I had a triple this morning? Whoa triple espresso? 43 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 1: That's why you feel low energy right now? You're crashing? Man? 44 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: Well I was. That was low before and low after. 45 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: So it's just the thing. Are you okay? I'm fine. 46 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,359 Speaker 1: Personal problems that I don't feel like telling a million 47 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: people about. Do we have a million listeners? Oh? I 48 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: don't know. Let's say, what's a listener? What's a download? 49 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,839 Speaker 1: Are these bots? Who knows? No one knows? Oh that's good. 50 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 1: That was a nice conversation. Well, I'm I'm super hyped 51 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: up chucking you? Why? Uh? Because you had a serge 52 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: energy drink. I didn't know. Because literally every project that 53 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: Elon Musk has his hands on I am jazzed about. 54 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: He was in our short lived television show supposedly he 55 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: was your man crush hero idol. Yes, yeah, and actually 56 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: it has grown exponentially since then. Like the more I 57 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: found out about him, the more I actually have come 58 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: to I think he's a pretty cool dude. Like that, 59 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: would you have such a crush on him if his 60 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: name was, like, you know, Bill Burrels. I actually have 61 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: a crush on a guy named Bill Burrels. So yes, 62 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: A right, Elon Musk sounds so you know, exotic and 63 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 1: James BONDI, oh, it definitely does. He definitely has one 64 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: of those guns that slides out of his sleeve when 65 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: he needs it. But he can always talk his way 66 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: out of anything that's is real. But it shoots kisses. Right, 67 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm not the only one. Um you mean 68 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: actually loves the guy a lot too. I'm sure you 69 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: gotta watch out for that though. Yeah. Well it's it's 70 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: like a nice, respectful love from a distance, so I'm 71 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: not threatened by just don't let them in a room together. Right. 72 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 1: She has this t shirt. UM it says save us Elan, 73 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. Yeah, and she tweeted to him 74 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: last night actually um asking him to design well, it 75 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 1: was on behalf of our dog Momo. She was asking 76 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 1: him to design um safe dog cars or safe dog 77 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:34,039 Speaker 1: seats for cars, specifically testless to start, I think they 78 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: have dog restraining systems that are to use. They do, 79 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 1: But I mean, imagine if Elon Musk put his like 80 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: even half of a percentage of his brain towards designing 81 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: something like that just on the back of a cocktail nap, 82 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: can it be awesome? Yeah? MoMA would be in a 83 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: like a plasma bag right with like one of those 84 00:04:55,200 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 1: Hannibal Lecter masks. So she looks so cute. Oh boy. 85 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: So I bring up elam Musk though, because um, well, 86 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 1: we're talking about one of his projects, but technically it's 87 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 1: not actually one of his projects because this the hyper loop, 88 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: was um basically a concept that he thought of about 89 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: a fifty seven page white paper on it, just roughly 90 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: outlining some of the challenges the problems, and then did 91 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: something really unusual, especially for massive transportation projects, which is 92 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: what the hyper loop is. He open sources that. He said, 93 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: here you go, everybody, let's see what you can do 94 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: with it. Somebody take this and run with it. He's 95 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: kind of big on that though, right Yeah. I think 96 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: though that um yeah, I don't think he did that 97 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: with like tesla um or SpaceX or anything like that. 98 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: I think that's all very like private and hush hush. 99 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: This one was. This was like, here's a really good idea. 100 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: Here is how you would do it. Somebody go do it. 101 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: He It's yeah, this is unusual I think even for him. 102 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: He uh he open source something I can't remember what. 103 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: Maybe it was the the the home battery system or something. 104 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, maybe he opened sources things that he 105 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: doesn't feel like you can make a lot of dough on. Well, 106 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 1: I don't know that battery thing he said that, Um, 107 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: I think he's going to use that to solve Australia's 108 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: um black and brown out problems. Oh yeah, all right, 109 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: well who knows. I just like that he does that occasionally. Yeah, no, 110 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. Cool cat, Yeah, agreed. So let's 111 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: talk hyper loop you want to? Yeah, So the idea 112 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: here originally, and I've kind of learned to through reading this. 113 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a little bit about his UM his 114 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 1: boring company pun intended UM as well at the end. 115 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: But um, I've learned that when Elon Musk gets irritated 116 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: with something, good things happen. Right. If he has a 117 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: problem and he's like, you know, I'm tired of sitting 118 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 1: in traffic or flying from l A to San Francisco 119 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: is a real drag. Uh, he gets that cocktail fifty 120 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: seven pages of cocktail napkins, and he said, you know what, 121 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: how about if we developed a high speed transport system 122 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:10,119 Speaker 1: forget your maglevs? Does only go I know you're building 123 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: one California for sixty billion dollars. But that thing only 124 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 1: goes two hundred miles an hour. It's not even maglev. 125 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: It's just a straight up bullet train. Oh it's not 126 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: even I thought it was a maglev now no, no, 127 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: it's a it's as he he called it, the UM 128 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: like world's slowest high speed train or something like two 129 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour, right right, which I mean two 130 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour. That's super fast. How how could 131 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: you possibly improve on that? Well by putting people in 132 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: a pod in a tube and shooting them at almost 133 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: mock one in twenty three minutes I'm sorry, thirty five 134 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: minutes from l A to San Francisco or vice versa. 135 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: That's and I know he wants mock one so bad. Yeah, 136 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: I don't know what the problem is. I I don't 137 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: know if UM like the the sonic boom would throw 138 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: off the whole thing, the whole UM closed system. You 139 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: mean make it cooler. Yeah, no, it definitely would. But 140 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: he in the in his white paper, he makes reference 141 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: to the shock waves that are created as you get 142 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: close to the speed of sound and the supersonic threshold. 143 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: And I was reading UM the right. Stuff that Tom 144 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: wolfbook about the early space program, right, And he was 145 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: talking about Chuck Yeager when he broke the speed of sound. Um, 146 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: they had no idea what happened on the other side 147 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: of a sonic boom. No one had ever gone that fast, right, 148 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: And it was Yeager who figured out that. He was 149 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: just sure that once you hit sonic boom, everything would 150 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: smooth out. But the closer and closer and closer you 151 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: got to the sonic threshold, the harder it was for 152 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: to for to keep the plane stable. He said, it 153 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:52,199 Speaker 1: felt like it was gonna break up. His teeth were 154 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 1: like breaking off into little pieces. UM. So I would 155 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: imagine that if you're doing that inside it closed and 156 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: enclosed tube and start to hit those same kind of 157 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: shock waves, it would it would screw things up. So 158 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 1: I would guess that's why they're they're not taking it 159 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: to supersonic level, gotcha. So there it's a purposeful thing. UM. 160 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: I did look into makwe and apparently it varies, and 161 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 1: I never realized that, um, we should do something on 162 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: that at some point. Mack one varies. Yeah, it depends 163 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:23,719 Speaker 1: on the local conditions, um, Like mainly temperature and air 164 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 1: pressure as to how fast you need to be going. 165 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: I mean it's generally in that wheelhouse of seven hundred 166 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: and sixty two, you know. I'm not sure how high, 167 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: but I saw seven sixty seven. Uh. And it just 168 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: depends sort of where you are the object speed as 169 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: it relates to the conditions, which is interesting. I got you. Well, 170 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: that's one of the benefits of this hyper loop that 171 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 1: he's proposed is it's it's enclosed, it's encapsulated, it's UM 172 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: it's a closed system, which means that it can be controlled, right, 173 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,559 Speaker 1: so you can control everything from the temperature, to the 174 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: air pressure, to all that stuff, which we'll get into. 175 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 1: But the hyper loop, we I guess we should say, 176 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: is UM this proposal for the line, like you said, 177 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: from l A to San Francisco, and it's two tubes 178 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: side by side. They're actually welded together, but they are separate. 179 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 1: That UM form, this closed system on either end is 180 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 1: a UM a way for the cars to go one way, 181 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 1: turn around and go back the other way. And like 182 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: you said, it takes thirty five minutes to to for 183 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: this this journey, a one way journey. I don't even 184 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: know if you call that a journey. Uh a, what 185 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: would you call it? Just a yeah, hey, so it's 186 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: whatever it is. It takes thirty five minutes to go 187 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 1: three D and fifty miles. It is five d sixty 188 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:56,439 Speaker 1: three kilometers. We should say hello, rest of the world. Uh. 189 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: And he proposed initially that this thing would only cost 190 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: about six billion dollars, which the entire world scoffed at 191 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: that more than I think they scoffed at any other 192 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: part of the plan. Um. I mean, you know, people 193 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: were like, first of all, this train that we're building 194 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 1: in California sixty sixty billion, and the Bay Bridge in 195 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 1: San Francisco, we're just we're just redoing that thing for 196 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: six billion, for the same price that you think you 197 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: can build this George Jetson machine. Uh but you know, 198 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,079 Speaker 1: who knows. We'll see what it ends up costing. But 199 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,679 Speaker 1: six billion dollars sounds like a ton of money. Um. 200 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: The thing that shocked me, I think, well, first of all, 201 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: let's not ruin the price tag just yet, um, except 202 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: to say that it's shocking. But uh so, so what 203 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: you do is you would you would have this tube 204 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: mounted on these pylons. The pylons are about their reinforced concrete. 205 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: They're about a hundred feet apart from one another, and 206 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 1: they vary in height because of the train. You know, 207 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: he's gonna run along. I've five ye right down the 208 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,719 Speaker 1: median is as long as possible, or as they call 209 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: it in Los Angeles, the five uh, and it would 210 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 1: be you know, at vary in height hundred feet depending 211 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: on the terrain. And UM. Part of the reason they 212 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,719 Speaker 1: put it on the five was because it just makes 213 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: sense because there's already already highway there. They wouldn't have 214 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 1: to like, you know, buy people out of their homes 215 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: and businesses to build it. And UM, I like to 216 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: think another reason is that they could just make fun 217 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: of people sitting in traffic right when this thing, when 218 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: you hear that sonic boom as it goes by. UM. 219 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: The other thing about the pylons too, is it has 220 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 1: a much It creates a much um smaller footprint on 221 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: the actual ground because the whole thing is raised up 222 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: in the air and those pylons are they're gonna be 223 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 1: twenty ft wherever possible. It's gonna be about the average 224 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 1: height off of the ground of the hyperloop. Earthquake proof supposedly, 225 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: which is a big deal. Yeah, there's gonna be dampers 226 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: in the pylons um so that it could take a 227 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: pretty pretty decent sized earthquake. And then I guess the 228 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: just the whole process of running this system will cause 229 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:10,439 Speaker 1: some expansion and contraction and so the whole things it's 230 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 1: got to be pretty well um together, you know, I think. 231 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 1: So you can't make it loosey goosey, so um the 232 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:23,440 Speaker 1: any any movement, it's gonna be um conversated for in 233 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: these dampers in the pylons and he sway and he 234 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 1: up and down and barrel rolls any of that stuff. Yeah, 235 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:35,959 Speaker 1: I'm sure that was I mean, besides the movement, but 236 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 1: just building something that travels that fast full of people 237 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:44,319 Speaker 1: along the fault lines out there, that was probably a 238 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: very early consideration, Like am I just stupid for even? 239 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: But then he went on. So when he first started, uh, 240 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,440 Speaker 1: I guess what the people like Elon Musk would call 241 00:13:56,480 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 1: Blue Sky Territory. People started throwing out idea as he 242 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 1: assembled a team, and they were like, hey, you remember 243 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 1: those cool pneumatic tubes and offices. Sometimes you gotta look backwards, 244 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: you know, at old technology to realize that you're wrong. 245 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: And they had these fans that would shoot, you know, 246 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: a letter from Florida floor through a tube, so satisfying 247 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: the man. Those are the best. It's the same thing 248 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: that they used them when you do a drive through 249 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: banking thing. Yeah, which does anyone do that anymore? All Right? 250 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time I went to a bank. 251 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: I'm like, I've got too much gasoline in my car. 252 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: I need to get rid of some of it, and 253 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: I need to bank and a lollipop. I'm going to 254 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: combine those two. So, uh, they had that idea to 255 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: use these giant fans, and he said, you know, I 256 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: don't know if he personally said this, but they basically said, 257 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 1: not a bad idea. It is possible to build a 258 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: fan that large, but over three fifty miles that's going 259 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 1: to create a lot of friction with this thing, and 260 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: it would explode. You know. Something interesting is somebody actually 261 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 1: created that very system in London in eighteen sixty four 262 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: and exploded. It didn't explode. It it ran for a 263 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: year apparently without major problems. It's called the Crystal Palace 264 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 1: pneumatic railway. I think I've heard of that. The thing 265 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: is is It wasn't trying to go a thousand kilometers 266 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: an hour. It was just puts them along, like isn't 267 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: the future amazing? Or in a pneumatic railway. But I 268 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: mean it worked, right, So it had Actually that had worked. 269 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: But for what the hyper loop is trying to be 270 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: pneumatic just it wouldn't work. It would It would just 271 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: create too much drag pushing a column of air three 272 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: d and fifty miles too much friction. Yeah, so the 273 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: pneumatic one, he said, no, we're not doing that. By 274 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: the way, that made me think the exploding thing. Did 275 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: you know that cars don't really explode like a car 276 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: on fire? Oh yeah, I think there's a lot of 277 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: like safety feet. Does that keep it from doing that? Right? No, 278 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: it's just gasoline just doesn't explode like that. It can 279 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: catch fire very fast and cause a big fire very quickly, 280 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: but it's not like a movie where a car catches 281 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: on fire and then goes boom really loud. Yeah. I 282 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: feel like Chuck Norris really misled me all these years, 283 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: well in many many ways. But I saw a car 284 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: it made me think of because I saw a car 285 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: on fire the other day on the highway and the 286 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: people were running away from it, and which is you know, 287 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 1: it's probably not a bad idea anyway, but um, I 288 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: was kind of curious, so I looked it up and 289 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: apparently that doesn't happen. So I if my car is 290 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: every one fire, I'm just gonna like stand right next 291 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: to it like the coolest dude in the world. You 292 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: just light a cigarette off exactly. You're like, I don't 293 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: even smoke. But I'm not recommending that I would still 294 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: get away from a burning car if I were you 295 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: people time. That's sage advice. Uh So anyway, Um, the 296 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: other they came up with another idea and they said, well, 297 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: you know, we mentioned Maglev trains. They said, that's a 298 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: pretty good idea to get trains to go fast. And 299 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 1: we did a we did a whole episode on that, right, Yeah, 300 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: we did a Maglev episode. It was pretty good. And 301 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 1: I think when we did the Maglev episode, everybody's like, 302 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: you have to do a hyper loop episode. So we 303 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: go everybody, well, it was probably good that we did 304 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: it years later, you know. Um, and you know Maglev, 305 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: when you when you put two magnets together, uh in 306 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: the correct way, that will either snap together or they 307 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: will have that, um, you know, they will push each 308 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:32,119 Speaker 1: other apart. And we also did one on magnets, so 309 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: refer to that for for that magic explanation. But um, 310 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: the idea is that there what you create is no friction, right, 311 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 1: And there's a couple of problems. We talked about drag 312 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,160 Speaker 1: and friction, or we're gonna talk about drag, but those 313 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 1: are sort of the two issues with the hyper loop. 314 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,400 Speaker 1: Those are the things that will make something slow down, right. 315 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 1: And there's like really no problem with the maglev train 316 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 1: except that it's extraordinarily expensive to build track. Right. So 317 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: Musk was like, well, we maybe we could put a 318 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:06,120 Speaker 1: maglev train in this tube in the hyper loop, because 319 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 1: there's drag even on a maglev train, but in a 320 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: vacuum there would not be. No But that's what he 321 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: was saying is Okay, well we can put it in 322 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: a vacuum and it would just go zoom and you'd 323 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: be there in like half of a second. The problem 324 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 1: is is it would be extraordinarily expensive, um to build 325 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: and operate. And the reason it would be so expensive 326 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: to operate is because the closer and closer you get 327 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 1: to creating a full or perfect vacuum, the more expensive 328 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: the pumping operation gets right. So you know, if you're like, uh, 329 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: if you're one or two percent away from a perfect vacuum, 330 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,640 Speaker 1: you're spending five bucks pumping out the air to get 331 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 1: to that point. But it's ay a hundred trillion dollars 332 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,680 Speaker 1: to get to a perfect vacuum. I don't think that 333 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: those numbers are accurate, but you get the picture, right. Well. Yeah, 334 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 1: And the other thing too is it's it's nearly impossible 335 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 1: to create thing over that distance. Uh. Musk himself even 336 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: said if there's one small leaky seal or small crack 337 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:11,120 Speaker 1: anywhere and that three fifty mile tube, then everything's down. 338 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,199 Speaker 1: So one of the other problems when they were in 339 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 1: blue Sky Territory, which I guess was starting to look 340 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: like dark Sky territory at this point, um wash, what 341 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: if we had something like a syringe, Like we're moving 342 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: air through this tube, but it's pushing this entire column 343 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 1: of air. And they basically said it would just go 344 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: too slow unless you built it super big, and then 345 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 1: it would go too fast, which I don't I don't 346 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: fully get right, um because well, I think about it 347 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: when you're pushing air, when you're pushing something through a 348 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:49,719 Speaker 1: tube a cylinder, it starts pushing the air ahead of it, 349 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: which slows it down. Right. The only way for that 350 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 1: to um to get away, to get around that is 351 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 1: to make your little whatever you're pushing through the tube small, 352 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: or make the two bigger. So he he looked at 353 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: all these challenges, you know, the problem with a vacuum, 354 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: the syringe effect, um, the idea of newmatics, and he said, 355 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: I think I'm onto something with a closed loop, a 356 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: closed tube and pushing something through it. So I just 357 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 1: got to figure out the details. And he did, and 358 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 1: he came up with the hyper loop. And we'll tell 359 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: you how he solved a lot of these problems, uh 360 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: in just a minute, all right. So he does not 361 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: work in a vacuum, even though he works on a 362 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 1: vacuum that was terrible. But he has a great team 363 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: of brilliant, brilliant people. Um. So he gets his engineers, 364 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 1: the same folks who work on the Tesla and the 365 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: same people at SpaceX, and uh, I get the feeling 366 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: that these men and women can kind of do anything 367 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: when they put their mind to it. So, like you said, 368 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: they proposed these two tubes a northbound line in a 369 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:21,679 Speaker 1: southbound line along I five, and he said, what we 370 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: want to do is reduced drag and reduced friction, the 371 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: kind of two things that will slow down something that 372 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: you want to go super fast. Uh. And if you notice, uh, 373 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: jets fly really high in the air at high altitudes 374 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 1: because it's less dense, so you're gonna have less drag. 375 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: So he said, we can recreate that by uh manipulating 376 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: the air pressure in that system in a big, big way. Yeah, 377 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: by dropping it tremendously, like hugely. So he figured out 378 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: that you don't have to have a vacuum. Like, sure, 379 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 1: a vacuum is nice, but it's just so prohibitively expensive 380 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: to pump the air fully out of an enclos system 381 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:01,199 Speaker 1: and all it takes his one little leak in the 382 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: whole thing's toast, right, So he figured out that you 383 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 1: could still get roughly the same effect by lowering the pressure, 384 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,439 Speaker 1: not to a vacuum, but just super super low. And 385 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: what he settled on was about a hundred pascals of 386 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:19,159 Speaker 1: air pressure within the tube. That's extremely low air pressure. 387 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: It's something like a sixth of the air pressure on Mars, 388 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 1: which is pretty thin, but if you haven't been to Mars. 389 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: It's actually about a thousandth of the air pressure at 390 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,679 Speaker 1: sea level on Earth. So it's significantly lower pressure air, 391 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 1: which just means the air is thinner, which means things 392 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 1: will move through that tube with that low pressure air 393 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:40,920 Speaker 1: much more easily, with much less drag. So the other 394 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,639 Speaker 1: point to UM having very very low but not a 395 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: full vacuum as far as air pressure goes, as even 396 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 1: if there was a crack or something in the tube, 397 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 1: you can still pump that air. You can overcome it 398 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,680 Speaker 1: um by pumping air out a little more, but it's 399 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: not gonna raise your cost of five or ten trillion 400 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 1: dollars again because not creating a vacuum and just a 401 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: little duct tape and you're all set right. So it's 402 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: a durable system that you can do with existing technology. Right, 403 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:15,199 Speaker 1: So you've got your drag um solved in a way. 404 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: But then you have the friction problem. Um, what do 405 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: we put this thing on wheels? Uh? Do we want 406 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,399 Speaker 1: it on magnets? He kind of had already decided against that, 407 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: so he said, what if we put it on skis 408 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: and did sort of like they like, And it's a 409 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: perfect way to describe it in this article like an 410 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,640 Speaker 1: air hockey game, where these tiny little holes blowing air 411 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 1: up from the bottom, and that is what makes the 412 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: train not have contact with I guess the track whatever 413 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,399 Speaker 1: that would look like, right, or the inside wall of 414 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: the tube. Yeah, So the little ski it basically it's 415 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,639 Speaker 1: like you just said, it floats on a cushion of air, 416 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: very very tiny cushion of air, something like less than 417 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,640 Speaker 1: half of an inch I think, So it's just barely 418 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:06,679 Speaker 1: above the surface of the tube. But that's all it takes. 419 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 1: And you've got a little cushion of air that it 420 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: floats on. And since it's already thin air, um, it 421 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: just zooms along as fast as you like with very 422 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: little drag. So the wind gets under the ski because 423 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,439 Speaker 1: it's kicked up a little bit in the front. And 424 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 1: then amazingly, astoundingly, they also designed these skis so that 425 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: little bursts of compressed air shoot out of the skis 426 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: to help support that cushion whenever it starts to erode, 427 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: like say at a turn, or because it starts to 428 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: get too hot underneath. Yeah. I mean, ideally you would 429 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,679 Speaker 1: do this all on a straight line, but um, you 430 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: just can't do that when you're designing it to go, 431 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 1: you know, as as far as from l A to 432 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: uh San Francisco. Um, so to to get this thing, uh, 433 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: to to continue this air flow because it is a 434 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: closed system. They have a really really powerful electric compressor 435 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 1: on the front of the odd that pumps air to 436 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:05,439 Speaker 1: the back. Yeah. Instead of forcing the air to go 437 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: around it, it allows a lot of it to go 438 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: straight through. And when it gets compressed again, some of 439 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 1: it gets shot to the skis, but a bunch of 440 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,880 Speaker 1: it gets shot to the back, which helps um which 441 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: helps accelerated I think, yeah, but that's not how it 442 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: gets going. Uh. He had that, you know, the idea 443 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: with the magnets. He didn't completely discard it in order 444 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: to get it started. And the at the beginning of 445 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 1: your trip, Uh, he does use magnets on the skis 446 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 1: and he gives it. They basically said, it provides for 447 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: the initial shove. This electromagnetic pulse gets it going. And 448 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 1: he said at that point, you're gonna feel it when 449 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:42,959 Speaker 1: you start from zero, sort of like you're taking off 450 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 1: in a plane basically. But then after that, once you 451 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: get up to speed, he said, you can't even feel 452 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: like it doesn't feel like you're moving basically, right, which 453 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: is amazing. Do you remember our electricity episode. We're just 454 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:58,479 Speaker 1: both so blown away with how electricity is generated. Yeah, like, 455 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 1: that's what that is. So the actual inside of the tube, 456 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,439 Speaker 1: You've got a stat or, right, which is basically just 457 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,120 Speaker 1: a um ah, a magnet with a groove in it 458 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,679 Speaker 1: and then attached to the skis on them. On the 459 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: capsule the pod, you've got the rotor and what you 460 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: when you put them together, you have a linear induction motor, right, 461 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: So you run one through just like when you run 462 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: like a coil of copper through a magnet, it generates electricity. 463 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: If you run metal through a magnet in a in 464 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: a straight line, it will also generate electricity. And then 465 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: when it does that, like you said, that's how they 466 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 1: actually accelerate from zero to say three hundred. Then after 467 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,880 Speaker 1: you're at three hundred, you're going through a city going 468 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 1: three hundred miles an hour because there's almost no drag whatsoever. 469 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,199 Speaker 1: You're just coasting. And then as you get out of 470 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 1: the city and they step you up to full speed, 471 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 1: you go through another linear induction motor. And when this 472 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 1: this rotor goes through the stator, an electrical charge is 473 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: created and it's like the tube. This is Elon Musk's words, 474 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,879 Speaker 1: it's like the tube is chasing the capsule and it 475 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 1: just speeds it up to seven and sixty miles about 476 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 1: a thousand or so kilometers an hour, and you just 477 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 1: coast along fast as you like, going between l A 478 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,120 Speaker 1: and San Francisco. Yeah, and these these motors are sort 479 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: of placed along the way, and I get the feeling 480 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 1: that works in concert with that air, and I mean 481 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: it sounds like something from the future. But well, and 482 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:31,919 Speaker 1: we'll get to it here in a bit. It's actually 483 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,640 Speaker 1: kind of happening in a way, but um, we won't 484 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: talk about that quite yet, right, right, So this sounds 485 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: very cool as it is, uh, the actual experience on 486 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: one of these things, because it's Elon Musk, you know, 487 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,959 Speaker 1: it's not gonna be uh you know, like a like 488 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: a chicken bus, even though I love a good chicken bus. 489 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 1: We've been on him in Guatemala, right, Um, so he 490 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,119 Speaker 1: wanted to make it a little more posh obviously. Oh, 491 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 1: what this thing is. It's a pod that holds twenty 492 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: eight people, got fourteen rows of two. Um, there's a 493 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 1: little luggage compartments, you can put your junk. Apparently they're 494 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: going to design them one day, hopefully where if you're 495 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: I guess I would imagine it would They would charge 496 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: you a little bit of dough for this, but you 497 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 1: can put your car in it and transport your car 498 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: as well. Well. They have that's like he has basically 499 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,360 Speaker 1: two designs. He proposed two designs once, like the regular 500 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 1: passenger only one and the other is a passenger and 501 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: a car, which makes a lot of sense because you know, 502 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: you're zipping from l A to San Francisco, just shouting 503 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,200 Speaker 1: the future. But then when you get to the other end, 504 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 1: you still need your car. You don't want to rent 505 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 1: a car like yeah, uh, it should drop you off 506 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 1: at like you know, car rental row. Yeah. I think 507 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 1: those would build up around the stations for sure. So um, 508 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 1: they would take off about every thirty seconds or so, 509 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 1: uh during peak travel time, and you think, man, that 510 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: sounds dangerous. You gotta remember, thirty seconds later, this thing's 511 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 1: already twenty three miles down the loop, so there's a 512 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: good amount of space in between even though it's only 513 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 1: thirty seconds, which is a benefit of going three miles 514 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 1: an hour. At startup. Uh. And supposedly, and this is 515 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: the thing that blows me away more than anything else. 516 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: He said it would be about twenty dollars each way. 517 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: That's so, that's how much you could charge and just 518 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: break even, I think, is what he was saying. That's crazy. 519 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: So in other words, it would be five dollars a ticket. Yeah, 520 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: depending on who actually built it and started operating it. 521 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,960 Speaker 1: I'm sure. Yeah. And I imagine, like you get the 522 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 1: romantic notion of being in Los Angeles at at three 523 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 1: fifteen and saying I want to I want to hit 524 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: Napa Valley at happy hour. Um, I don't think that'll 525 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: be possible, Like, surely this thing will be booked months 526 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 1: and months in advance. Well, supposedly they say that the 527 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 1: the at the at the thirty seconds I think thirty 528 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: seconds of departure That's what I'm trying to say at 529 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 1: rush hour, and then significantly less at other times. Um. 530 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: They say that that is enough in and of itself 531 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 1: to account for like the seven million people a year 532 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,040 Speaker 1: who traveled between San Francisco and l A. UM, I 533 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: don't know if that's by air. I don't know if 534 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: that's by air or not. But there's there was some 535 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:31,640 Speaker 1: number that this number satisfied that UM said it covers 536 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: everybody who would want it. So I don't know. I 537 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 1: wonder if that's if they're just saying for like business 538 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,520 Speaker 1: travelers or something, because once you get this thing going, 539 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: you are going to have people like I want to 540 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 1: have dinner in l A tonight, right, and then I 541 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: want to have dessert in San Francisco. Yeah, you know. 542 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: I mean though, if you think about it, and it 543 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 1: mustn't cover this, I'm I'm riffing here, But if you 544 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 1: all you would have to do is build another one 545 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: right next to it or on top of it, or 546 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: right below it, and then bam. He just doubled doubled 547 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 1: how many people can be served by this. He also 548 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: said that if you need to add more people, that 549 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: these things could depart significantly faster than um thirty second increments. Uh. 550 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,640 Speaker 1: And there's a lot of ways that you could do that. Right. 551 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: So when you are UM, well, let's let's go to 552 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,960 Speaker 1: the future. Chuck, does the way back machine go forward? Uh? Yeah, 553 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 1: just let me recalibrate it here. Alright, alright, oh nice, Alright, 554 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: let's go like I don't know, ten years from now okay, 555 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 1: so here we are. We are at the the San 556 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 1: Francisco end of the hyper loop station, right, so what 557 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 1: you're not dead yet, that's that's twelve years um. The 558 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 1: the in the station, you and I are like handing 559 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,320 Speaker 1: off our baggage to a friendly hyper loop employee, right, 560 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 1: aren't they smartly dressed? Those are on the ball. Uh, 561 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 1: they're all wearing silver jumpsuits everybody. So they take our luggage, 562 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: they put it in a luggage pot and it's just this, 563 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: well it's just a pod, right, and these other guys 564 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 1: are loading them up, and they close the luggage pod 565 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: and they say follow us, and we walk alongside the 566 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 1: luggage pod, and the luggage pod gets put on a capsule, uh, 567 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 1: a passenger pod. It just kind of like clicks onto 568 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: the back of it. Right. So you've just figured out 569 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: a problem of getting luggage on board when you're trying 570 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 1: to get a thing to depart every fifteen seconds. Right, 571 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 1: you know how fast that happens on planes, right, exactly. 572 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: So you do the luggage ahead of time using capsules 573 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,520 Speaker 1: that can be taken off and put on. Same with 574 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: the batteries, and we'll talk a little more about the energy. 575 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 1: It uses in a little bit, but the batteries are rechargeable, 576 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,760 Speaker 1: and so on each journey they get used and then 577 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 1: taken off and new fresh batteries are put on, and 578 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 1: then the passengers get onto them. The actual passenger compartment 579 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 1: with through goal wing doors which are just cool. Right, 580 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 1: you get in and take your seat, the golding doors closed, 581 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: the luggage compartment has been attached to it, and the 582 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 1: new batteries are on and you're off. You could conceivably 583 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: do that in fifteen seconds if you made everybody run 584 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 1: and like clap your hands. Well, like I said, anyone 585 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,880 Speaker 1: who's reported a plane, I think they're there dreaming if 586 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: they think that that's gonna happen. Yeah, I don't know 587 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 1: exactly how they could. But he also says in the 588 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 1: white paper that it has to be um as safe 589 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 1: as T s A. But having um people just streaming 590 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 1: on like almost constantly, would somehow, in his estimation, make 591 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:41,120 Speaker 1: the trap the screening process faster and more efficient. That 592 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 1: I don't understand, but I'm quite sure that whatever t 593 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 1: s A Is doing could be made more efficient. I 594 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: have total faith in that. It sounds like you'd be 595 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 1: in a queue, sort of like a roller coaster ride. Yeah. Probably, um, 596 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 1: and I guess you'd have to have a system where 597 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: unless you had, you know, hundreds of these pods lined up, 598 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 1: where you have the southbound ones, you know, doing a 599 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,399 Speaker 1: little uh, you turn right and then heading back north 600 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,960 Speaker 1: immediately exactly. Yeah, like when it reaches the end, it 601 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 1: hits the turntable, turns around and is aligned with the 602 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 1: old street cars. Yeah, or like a record. I didn't know. 603 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 1: I didn't until I wrote a street car. I didn't 604 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:25,800 Speaker 1: know they did that. That was that was kind of 605 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,640 Speaker 1: blown away by that. Did you get to ride it 606 00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,719 Speaker 1: to the end? Yeah? Oh wow, Well now I think 607 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 1: I got on at its departure point, and so you know, 608 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: street car came down, the city moved around it, it 609 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,800 Speaker 1: seemed like, and then you know, we took off again. 610 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:46,320 Speaker 1: What was the street car named Desire? I had actually 611 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 1: one of my best moments of my life on a uh. 612 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: I had been to a bar by myself in San 613 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,279 Speaker 1: Francisco and Emily and I were traveling. She went back 614 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,279 Speaker 1: to the hotel and I wanted to stay out and 615 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,319 Speaker 1: uh got a little saucy and then I'm I told 616 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,400 Speaker 1: the story. On the way back, I caught the last 617 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 1: street car uh to get back towards my hotel, and 618 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,720 Speaker 1: I was the only person on it for the whole 619 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 1: entire ride. I had the street car to myself going 620 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,839 Speaker 1: downhill the whole way and the driver. I was up 621 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,400 Speaker 1: near the driver and he kind of talked to me 622 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,360 Speaker 1: the whole way, and it was like as if I 623 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,120 Speaker 1: were Elvis and I had rented this thing. That's your 624 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 1: go too. Yeah, I mean he's he's the one that 625 00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,319 Speaker 1: used to like, I want to run out six flags man. 626 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,080 Speaker 1: Oh yeah he did. Yeah, sure he'd rent out everything 627 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:31,840 Speaker 1: to see he didn't have to be bothered. But you 628 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 1: didn't even have to lay out any extra money for that, 629 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,319 Speaker 1: So no, even better. It was really great. It was 630 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,239 Speaker 1: just one kind of one of those moments. Did you 631 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,439 Speaker 1: just keep singing the Rice of Roney theme song over 632 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,279 Speaker 1: and over to the driver? I did, and he finally 633 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,120 Speaker 1: kicked me off and I rolled downhill the rest of 634 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:50,040 Speaker 1: the way. It was great, all right, So nostalgic travel 635 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 1: memories aside. Let's take a break and I will take 636 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 1: another espresso shot and we'll finish up here with the 637 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:23,040 Speaker 1: hyper loop. Okay, so before we left, we didn't quite 638 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,239 Speaker 1: finish um. Once you get on this thing. They're only 639 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,759 Speaker 1: they're a little under seven feet at tall, so if 640 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,279 Speaker 1: you're a tall person or you have claustrophobia, it might 641 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,239 Speaker 1: not be for you. Well, there's no bathroom on board either. Yeah, 642 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,440 Speaker 1: there's no bathroom as of yet, because you know, unless 643 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,160 Speaker 1: you have like a medical condition, you should be able 644 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,080 Speaker 1: to hold it for thirty five minutes. I yeah, yeah, 645 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,239 Speaker 1: you never probably have to be a lot of bathrooms 646 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,319 Speaker 1: at the station, just in case. Well you can't bevy 647 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,160 Speaker 1: up like you'd like to know, That's what I'm saying. Um, 648 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,799 Speaker 1: and then uh, there you have your own little, you know, 649 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,360 Speaker 1: personal entertainment system of course, to occupy you for the 650 00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 1: thirty five minutes, because God forbid anyone just be alone 651 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,160 Speaker 1: with her thoughts, Oh my god, for that long. That 652 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 1: would make the Hyperlop the most terrifying ride on the planet. 653 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,040 Speaker 1: And I think that it would make periodic stops along 654 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,279 Speaker 1: the way to right. Um, it's like that's proposed that 655 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,719 Speaker 1: you could have stations that branch off right. I mean, 656 00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,400 Speaker 1: I don't think it would be a lot. There's probably 657 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,320 Speaker 1: in there may be an express model kind of like 658 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,680 Speaker 1: a subway, but it's not like, you know, we're gonna 659 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,840 Speaker 1: stop in Bakersfield in Modesto. Maybe we can get a 660 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 1: sandwich or something. See the site. Yeah, that's what the 661 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,719 Speaker 1: buses do. Yeah, this is the opposite of that sentiment. 662 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,240 Speaker 1: It's just like just get there, all right. So, uh, 663 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,719 Speaker 1: they ended up talking to um, this guy named Jim 664 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,319 Speaker 1: Powell who was he was I think he designed the 665 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,719 Speaker 1: first mag left train, didn't He yes, he was one 666 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,239 Speaker 1: of the designers, and they just want to get his 667 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,359 Speaker 1: take on it. And he said, well, he's definitely onto 668 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:55,759 Speaker 1: something with this closed system, he said, because part of 669 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,040 Speaker 1: the problem with the maglev is the drag that we get. 670 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,960 Speaker 1: And he said, but he said, I still think you 671 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:06,319 Speaker 1: might have some problems achieving those speeds personally, Um, and 672 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,759 Speaker 1: ideally like you're going in a straight line, because who 673 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 1: knows what it's going to be like going around a curve. 674 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,799 Speaker 1: Well that's these people. Yeah, that's a big thing. Like 675 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,480 Speaker 1: if you go around a curve at these speeds, you're 676 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: gonna feel the g's And that's not the point of 677 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,200 Speaker 1: this is not to be scary or terrifying. What what 678 00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,640 Speaker 1: they're trying to do is get the sensation of g's 679 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:32,760 Speaker 1: two about point five and um, that's like a tenth 680 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:38,480 Speaker 1: of like a scary roller coasters gees um. So it's 681 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,359 Speaker 1: it would be something that you wouldn't even necessarily notice 682 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,919 Speaker 1: unless you're taking a curve. And this is where they 683 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:48,240 Speaker 1: deviate from the I five median. Right in some cases 684 00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,319 Speaker 1: where I five takes a bend with the radius of 685 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,239 Speaker 1: I think less than a mile, that's too much of 686 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:59,319 Speaker 1: a turn. So the UM hyperloop will actually the route 687 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:03,319 Speaker 1: will just keep going straightish until it picks up by 688 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:07,319 Speaker 1: five again, because if it turns too much, you know, 689 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,400 Speaker 1: to even more than a mile radius, that's a big 690 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,440 Speaker 1: wide swing. Well not when you're going that fast. Right, 691 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,520 Speaker 1: when you're going that fast, you feel it and you'll 692 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:17,960 Speaker 1: just throw up and and um puke all over your 693 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,200 Speaker 1: fellow passengers. But they won't care because they'll be puking 694 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,360 Speaker 1: on YouTube and everybody will get everybody else's vomit and 695 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,880 Speaker 1: everybody else's mouth. Yeah, they'll go it was worth it. 696 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,760 Speaker 1: It was so fast, I love you must. I imagine 697 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,480 Speaker 1: they could slow it down a bit on those curves too. 698 00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:34,160 Speaker 1: They'd work it out, you know. Sure, But apparently he 699 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:38,040 Speaker 1: is personally guaranteed that um every passenger that throws up 700 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,200 Speaker 1: on his hyperloop. He will be at the station to 701 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,720 Speaker 1: receive them with a warm towel to clean their face off, 702 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,359 Speaker 1: and he will clean their face off with it and 703 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,920 Speaker 1: then pat them, pet their head and tell him it's okay. 704 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,120 Speaker 1: What a guy, Yeah he is. And then Richard Branson 705 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,640 Speaker 1: will anoint their feet with oil. That's another great guy. 706 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,279 Speaker 1: I really hope. I'm not like digging must up in 707 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,000 Speaker 1: a whole five ten years from now where it turns 708 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,160 Speaker 1: out that, oh they both enslaved the world together. But 709 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,480 Speaker 1: Josh sure liked them, you know, kind of the opposite 710 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:13,920 Speaker 1: of my Jared focal prediction exactly. So check. Another another 711 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:17,040 Speaker 1: issue that people have raised is well, what about energy consumption? 712 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,680 Speaker 1: And Elon Musk actually has that pegged. First of all, 713 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,000 Speaker 1: he's like, there's not a lot of energy you need. 714 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,200 Speaker 1: Most of this is coasting. Something like eighty or ninety 715 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:31,239 Speaker 1: percent of the of the actual trip requires no energy whatsoever. 716 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,719 Speaker 1: The stuff that requires the most energy is the compressor 717 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,239 Speaker 1: that's on the front of each pod that compresses the 718 00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,320 Speaker 1: air to shoot out to the jets or shoot behind 719 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,440 Speaker 1: the pod, and the personal like entertainment system and lighting 720 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:49,399 Speaker 1: on board the pod itself, and the rest is well 721 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,880 Speaker 1: like you've got the linear induction motor that doesn't require 722 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:57,120 Speaker 1: any energy, it just requires movement. And again Elon Musk 723 00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,480 Speaker 1: is gonna personally shove off each pod. He's gonna be 724 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,400 Speaker 1: hands on in this project from what I understand. And 725 00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:07,480 Speaker 1: then UM any other energy sources that are needed can 726 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,520 Speaker 1: be covered, and then some by solar arrays that are 727 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,880 Speaker 1: going to be built on top of the UM hyper 728 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,799 Speaker 1: loop tube. So the whole thing, the whole system will 729 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:24,040 Speaker 1: actually capture and generate more energy than it actually uses. Yeah. 730 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,920 Speaker 1: I mean, this is the guy who invented the Tesla 731 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,399 Speaker 1: and this battery bank that they're going to be using 732 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,200 Speaker 1: on solar home. So I think people would be foolish 733 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,640 Speaker 1: to try and call him out on energy consumption. So 734 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,680 Speaker 1: he'll probably be like, they'll just divert some of the 735 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:44,160 Speaker 1: electricity to UM power irrigation systems and crop land along 736 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,480 Speaker 1: the way. Who knows, you know a road signs for 737 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:51,760 Speaker 1: I five saying like, suckers, get out of your car, Yeah, 738 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,440 Speaker 1: get in the hyper loop all right. So you sent 739 00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,839 Speaker 1: me this article. I think that was from January. It's 740 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,799 Speaker 1: very recent UM called these are the first images of 741 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,520 Speaker 1: what will soon be the world's first hyper loop tube 742 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:11,200 Speaker 1: a little wordy um, but there is, like you said, 743 00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,200 Speaker 1: because it was open source, there were a bunch of 744 00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,920 Speaker 1: companies and but you know, startups mainly that were like, 745 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,000 Speaker 1: you know, we want to get on this thing, because 746 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,040 Speaker 1: if you get on the Elon Musk train, you know 747 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,200 Speaker 1: you're headed for goodness. I think that's what the hyperloop 748 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:29,920 Speaker 1: tagline will be. Uh. And so there's this company called 749 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:34,640 Speaker 1: hyper Loop one and they are apparently the sort of 750 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,439 Speaker 1: out in front on this race so far to make 751 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,360 Speaker 1: this thing a reality by um having a test site 752 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:46,040 Speaker 1: where else in the desert of Nevada. Yeah, it's pretty 753 00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,520 Speaker 1: flat and straight and you can go real fast and 754 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:54,120 Speaker 1: the only thing out there are buried bodies, right, and 755 00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:57,919 Speaker 1: what's the decompose You're fine? So they have this test 756 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,719 Speaker 1: site called the devl Loop and the only thing I 757 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,799 Speaker 1: don't I mean, it's got pictures of it and looks 758 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:04,960 Speaker 1: exactly what you would think like it looks like a 759 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:13,240 Speaker 1: tube on pylons, um and right now it's long five um. 760 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,560 Speaker 1: But apparently they're going to top it out for testing 761 00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:22,000 Speaker 1: at one point eight six miles, which seems way too 762 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,239 Speaker 1: short to me. Yeah, for sure, but I think you 763 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:32,400 Speaker 1: could probably like You probably couldn't test the actual maximum conditions, 764 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,680 Speaker 1: but you could probably test everything enough to see if 765 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:40,239 Speaker 1: to to prove mathematically that you could do these these 766 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,120 Speaker 1: top conditions, you know what I mean. But it would 767 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:48,319 Speaker 1: be like alright, start test, test over right. What happened? Yeah, 768 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,880 Speaker 1: no one knows. I mean, you couldn't even get up 769 00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,759 Speaker 1: to speed at that. Yeah. I'm not exactly sure what 770 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,040 Speaker 1: they're what what they'll be capable of proving with that, 771 00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,960 Speaker 1: but basically just that the machine can run. I think 772 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,080 Speaker 1: what they're gonna do is prove to the United Arab 773 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:07,279 Speaker 1: Emirates that it works, because they're apparently in line too 774 00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,640 Speaker 1: to say, yes, if you guys can show that this works, 775 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:15,120 Speaker 1: we want one immediately from Abu Dhabi to Dubai, which 776 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,040 Speaker 1: apparently is a trip that you'd be able to make 777 00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,759 Speaker 1: in about twelve minutes. Normally it takes two hours or 778 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:21,920 Speaker 1: so by car. Yeah, I mean that that is. When 779 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:23,839 Speaker 1: I read that, I was like, well, of course they're 780 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,520 Speaker 1: exactly who's gonna build the first one of these? They're like, 781 00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:31,360 Speaker 1: how much is it? We're just joking, we don't care, yeah, exactly. So, 782 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,120 Speaker 1: So hyper loop one is from what I understand at 783 00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:37,440 Speaker 1: the forefront of this. There are a number of companies 784 00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,560 Speaker 1: and startups that have formed that are um working on 785 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,400 Speaker 1: the project, but hyper Loop one, I think is at 786 00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,759 Speaker 1: the forefront, so much so that they're not now they're 787 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,960 Speaker 1: starting to show off. They've released like um c g 788 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,080 Speaker 1: I video of what it will look like when they 789 00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,719 Speaker 1: dropped the hyper loop underwater, because you know, why not 790 00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:58,640 Speaker 1: do that, um And you know, they, like I said, 791 00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:02,200 Speaker 1: they've got at least one customer just waiting in the wings, 792 00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,839 Speaker 1: if not more so. Apparently they're going to test it 793 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,759 Speaker 1: this year in the spring or the summer, and man, 794 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,800 Speaker 1: if it works like it really would be a revolution 795 00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:15,080 Speaker 1: and transportation like it would change everything, especially if it 796 00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:20,040 Speaker 1: comes even close to that initial cost projection. If it 797 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,759 Speaker 1: comes even remotely close to that, you could just say 798 00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,800 Speaker 1: goodbye trains so long it was nice knowing you. I mean, they'll, they'll, 799 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,200 Speaker 1: they'll they may still have some, but it'll be for 800 00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:35,160 Speaker 1: like nostalgic tourists. Yeah, I mean, of course, we're talking 801 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:38,479 Speaker 1: about hundreds of years in the future when they had 802 00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:42,319 Speaker 1: hyper loops on every route in the United States and 803 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:46,640 Speaker 1: throughout the world, or fifty years from now. Well, he 804 00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:48,800 Speaker 1: actually a lot of Musk made a really good point. 805 00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,879 Speaker 1: He said, Um, this is this would be really good 806 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:57,080 Speaker 1: for medium length travel that um, at these at these speeds, 807 00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:01,440 Speaker 1: anything over about nine hundred miles in distance, you'd actually 808 00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:05,600 Speaker 1: be better off with supersonic flight. Yeah, I mean I could. 809 00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:08,400 Speaker 1: What I would see them doing is doing uh like 810 00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:12,000 Speaker 1: you know, Boston to d C and doing up the coast. 811 00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,920 Speaker 1: They would they would serve the coastal elites as they 812 00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,960 Speaker 1: call them, and forget the rest of the country. Right, 813 00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,680 Speaker 1: That's how it always works. Yeah, fly over, I guess 814 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:23,279 Speaker 1: is what they call it. I don't know what they'll 815 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:27,480 Speaker 1: call it when it's a hyperloop. Zoom over, yeah, the 816 00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:32,560 Speaker 1: zoom past the One of the other things that people raise, 817 00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,239 Speaker 1: though I wanted to say real quick, was safety. And 818 00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:37,560 Speaker 1: apparently this is one of the other ways that it's 819 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:42,680 Speaker 1: revolutionary is that it's fairly safe and in ways that 820 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,520 Speaker 1: other other modes of transport just aren't. One of the 821 00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,200 Speaker 1: main reasons that it's safe is because it's an enclosed capsule, 822 00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,520 Speaker 1: which means that you take weather out of the fact 823 00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:57,000 Speaker 1: out of the the the equation, yes, you're not very 824 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:02,360 Speaker 1: good at math, uh yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, um, 825 00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,600 Speaker 1: and the the each car I think is going to 826 00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:09,400 Speaker 1: be equipped with brakes, like mechanical brakes and wheels, so like, 827 00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:13,120 Speaker 1: if something happens, if the whole thing loses pressure, Uh, 828 00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:16,040 Speaker 1: that you can just drive along. I wonder if you 829 00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:20,399 Speaker 1: would have to be strapped in Um, yes, oh you would, okay, 830 00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:24,279 Speaker 1: because I imagine going from seven miles to zero if 831 00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:25,840 Speaker 1: one of the other ones is stopped in front of you, 832 00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:31,040 Speaker 1: you that would be a pretty pretty quick breaking Yes. 833 00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,640 Speaker 1: So the air pressure sensors would control the brakes on 834 00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:38,759 Speaker 1: each car, so the UM like, Yeah, if one of 835 00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:40,880 Speaker 1: them started to stop or something, or the whole or 836 00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,399 Speaker 1: the things started to lose air pressure, the system start 837 00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:45,759 Speaker 1: to break down. All the cars would be directed to 838 00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:49,640 Speaker 1: put on their brakes and the other thing. I thought 839 00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:51,640 Speaker 1: this was pretty interesting too if you had like a 840 00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:56,640 Speaker 1: medical emergency on on board one of these things. Um 841 00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:00,919 Speaker 1: Ellen points out that, uh, you just be better off 842 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:05,640 Speaker 1: completing the route and then having E. M. S waiting 843 00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,839 Speaker 1: for you when you got off because than anything else. Yeah, 844 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,719 Speaker 1: way quicker. Yeah, So you just sit there and hang on, 845 00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,480 Speaker 1: stay away from the light until you got to San 846 00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,359 Speaker 1: Francisco or l A. So earlier on I talked about 847 00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,759 Speaker 1: his boring company that it was a very purposeful play 848 00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,640 Speaker 1: on words. Um. And like I mentioned earlier, when Elon 849 00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:30,000 Speaker 1: Musk gets aggravated, things start happening. He was in I 850 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,360 Speaker 1: think it was late last year in December. He was 851 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:36,520 Speaker 1: in traffic and he literally just tweeted out that he 852 00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:40,680 Speaker 1: was in traffic and uh. He said, literally said this 853 00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,319 Speaker 1: traffic is driving me nuts. I'm going to build a 854 00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:49,120 Speaker 1: tunnel boring machine and just start digging sad. Oh did 855 00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:54,560 Speaker 1: he say sad? Really good? And people thought, you know, 856 00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,640 Speaker 1: all right, Elon Musk just fired off a tweet about something. 857 00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:00,400 Speaker 1: So we we know he's not one to just shoot 858 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,880 Speaker 1: his mouth off, um, because he he backs up what 859 00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,000 Speaker 1: he says in most cases, and he has done this. 860 00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:10,360 Speaker 1: What he's trying to do is build this tunnel boring 861 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:14,160 Speaker 1: machine that would increase tunneling speed by he said, between 862 00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:19,640 Speaker 1: five hundred and one thousand percent. Uh. And the idea 863 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,399 Speaker 1: is to go down. He's basically like, if we want 864 00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,319 Speaker 1: to improve traffic, you can go up or you can 865 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:27,640 Speaker 1: go down. We're already too dense to keep building roads, basically, 866 00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,080 Speaker 1: and he said going up isn't a great idea. I 867 00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,000 Speaker 1: guess because I'm gonna have my hyper loop up there. Um, 868 00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:35,399 Speaker 1: so he said, I'm gonna start digging. So right now 869 00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:39,919 Speaker 1: they have dug under SpaceX a test trench and this 870 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,640 Speaker 1: is this is December. This is like three months later. 871 00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:45,400 Speaker 1: They've already got a test trench that's thirty ft wide, 872 00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:49,680 Speaker 1: fifty ft long and fifteen feet deep that runs under SpaceX. 873 00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:55,480 Speaker 1: And uh, he's he's sees a future basically, and it's 874 00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,840 Speaker 1: problematic in cities because there's already a lot going on underground, 875 00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:04,120 Speaker 1: but basically envisions the future where they have these incredible 876 00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:08,080 Speaker 1: tunnels that are dug very very fast beneath cities, where 877 00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:13,399 Speaker 1: you could have highways um trains. And they even asked them, 878 00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,320 Speaker 1: are you gonna put You're gonna combine your hyper loop 879 00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:21,360 Speaker 1: through these underground tunnels? And he just tweeted back maybe 880 00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:23,879 Speaker 1: so I guess he you know, it was just being 881 00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:25,600 Speaker 1: a little coy there. Yeah. I took him more like 882 00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:32,799 Speaker 1: maybe he should have done ellipse question mark then and 883 00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:36,319 Speaker 1: then fingers crossed sign. Right, we know what he means. Um, 884 00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:40,040 Speaker 1: I got one more thing, man. So the hyper loop 885 00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:45,319 Speaker 1: was foreseen predicted back in nine Did you know that? 886 00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:48,759 Speaker 1: Why that doesn't surprise me? Some science fiction writer yep, 887 00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:54,560 Speaker 1: and actually a science science fiction comic strip. Guy um 888 00:50:54,640 --> 00:51:01,479 Speaker 1: who his name was this? This name is amazing Athelston Spillhouse. Wow, Yeah, 889 00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:04,400 Speaker 1: pretty good name, right. He decided to create a comic 890 00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,520 Speaker 1: strip back in the sixties called Our New Age because 891 00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,120 Speaker 1: he wanted to get American kids interested in science to 892 00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,640 Speaker 1: keep up with the roos Keys, right, And in one 893 00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,800 Speaker 1: of the comic strips, he basically talks about the hyper loop. 894 00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:20,560 Speaker 1: This this pod carrying passengers floating on air, traveling at 895 00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:23,520 Speaker 1: hundreds of miles an hour within a tube to solve 896 00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:27,439 Speaker 1: traffic jams. It's just it was. It's like the hyper loop. 897 00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:30,799 Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. I for some reason thought that would 898 00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:35,200 Speaker 1: be like ten different comic books that did this. It 899 00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,680 Speaker 1: just seems like back then that would be such a 900 00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:41,080 Speaker 1: sort of obvious thing to do. Yeah, I guess so, 901 00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,440 Speaker 1: but hey, maybe it was. It was just Spillhouse, just 902 00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:48,200 Speaker 1: Ethelston spell House. It sounds like a It sounds like 903 00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,560 Speaker 1: evil Simpsons character or something that would come into town 904 00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,200 Speaker 1: to do something bad. I'd like to hear Sylvester the 905 00:51:53,239 --> 00:52:01,080 Speaker 1: Cat say that name you anything else? Nope? Okay, well, everybody, 906 00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:05,399 Speaker 1: let's um apply some pressure on Elon musk too, get 907 00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,719 Speaker 1: some dog seats made for cars. Okay, yes, help me 908 00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:12,200 Speaker 1: out if you want to know more about the hyper 909 00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:14,439 Speaker 1: loop type that word in the search part how stuff 910 00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:17,400 Speaker 1: works dot com? And since I said that, it's time 911 00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:32,400 Speaker 1: for administ details, all right. Uh. If you don't listen 912 00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:35,160 Speaker 1: to the show ever, maybe we should set this up. 913 00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:39,040 Speaker 1: Every once in a while, we get nice gifts from 914 00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:43,279 Speaker 1: people and more and more from companies. Uh, and we 915 00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:50,080 Speaker 1: like to read them on the air every few months. Yeah, uh, 916 00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:54,760 Speaker 1: in a in a little weirdly awkwardly titled segment called 917 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,239 Speaker 1: administrative details. You know, I came up with that name. 918 00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,359 Speaker 1: It's the worst, but I love it. It is pretty bad, 919 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:04,839 Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah? So uh, here we go with our 920 00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:08,239 Speaker 1: special Is the music already queued up? Oh yeah, all right, 921 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:11,359 Speaker 1: here we go with administrative details. We want to thank 922 00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:15,640 Speaker 1: Matt and Kim of Mincing mocking Bird Art and Design Company. 923 00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,600 Speaker 1: They sent a book of his painting, plus some really 924 00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:22,879 Speaker 1: fun journal type notebooks. They look like, uh, they look 925 00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:26,440 Speaker 1: like these vintage journals, but then it says things like 926 00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:30,319 Speaker 1: dope rhymes or my favorite one was strange ideas and 927 00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:33,080 Speaker 1: impure thoughts. And I love a good journal. So they 928 00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:35,440 Speaker 1: were really cool. Yeah, thanks a lot for that, you guys. 929 00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:39,160 Speaker 1: I want to give us special thanks to Tyler Murphy, 930 00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:43,839 Speaker 1: our buddy. He likes to send me Highlander grog coffee 931 00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:46,880 Speaker 1: and um it's been so long since he did administrative details. 932 00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:49,759 Speaker 1: He's actually sent me two packages so far, so thanks 933 00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,520 Speaker 1: for both of them. Tyler, uh Will and Dave from 934 00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:56,160 Speaker 1: Bully Boy Distillers in Boston sent us well, they sent 935 00:53:56,239 --> 00:54:01,080 Speaker 1: us a bunch of booze, some rum, and some gin um. 936 00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:02,759 Speaker 1: It seems like there was one other thing in there. 937 00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:06,840 Speaker 1: There was a old fashion, old pre made, old fashioned 938 00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:10,279 Speaker 1: bully old fashioned. Did you have that? I bet yes 939 00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:13,640 Speaker 1: there was. They were apparently the first craft distiller in 940 00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:17,480 Speaker 1: Boston since Prohibition times and they opened up in two 941 00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:21,320 Speaker 1: thousand ten. So thank you Bully Boy Distillers. Yeah. Thanks 942 00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:25,360 Speaker 1: to Taylor Newton for the awesome stoked socks. Did you 943 00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:28,759 Speaker 1: get some of those? Uh no, dude, I've been rocking those. 944 00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:34,560 Speaker 1: They're like super eighties just pop art socks that have 945 00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,600 Speaker 1: like like their teal blue with lots of pink um 946 00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,200 Speaker 1: palm trees all over them stuff like that. You know, 947 00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,200 Speaker 1: They're they're like something d J Jerzy Jeff would have 948 00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,480 Speaker 1: worn back in the day. Well, you love your wacky 949 00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:49,239 Speaker 1: socks so yet. Yeah, thank you Sarah Austin. She sent 950 00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:52,959 Speaker 1: us some fine leather work. Nice. Uh, thank you Mark 951 00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:55,560 Speaker 1: Hicks and family for the very nice Christmas card. That 952 00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:59,720 Speaker 1: was nice of you, guys. Colin Flay hive fly five 953 00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:06,400 Speaker 1: Um interesting name. Dolly d A l I bars from Kunming, China, 954 00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:10,879 Speaker 1: that's what they sent us. And a book called Great 955 00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:16,360 Speaker 1: Leaps Nice. Thanks cute Thanks dudes. Uh. Karen Johnson's everyone's 956 00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:20,120 Speaker 1: a while. Somebody will find something or just come across 957 00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:23,160 Speaker 1: some weird article and and be like Josh and Chuck 958 00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:25,520 Speaker 1: would love this, and they nail it every time. And 959 00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:27,799 Speaker 1: Karen Johnson was one of those people. She sent us 960 00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:32,759 Speaker 1: a series of articles about the dreaded outhouse peeper who 961 00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:38,239 Speaker 1: kept Montana in his grip of fear in n Yeah, 962 00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,879 Speaker 1: thanks for those articles. Uh. Bob Ticken or of way 963 00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:45,000 Speaker 1: Back w E Y b A C H Way Back 964 00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:49,439 Speaker 1: guitars um which are handmade here in Atlanta. He sent 965 00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:55,200 Speaker 1: t shirts. That was my way of building up suspense. 966 00:55:55,280 --> 00:56:00,560 Speaker 1: They sent me a guitar. Huge thanks to Norell, who 967 00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:04,319 Speaker 1: gave us a bounty of Australian candy and thanks to 968 00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:09,160 Speaker 1: a lesser degree for the tube of vegemite. Uh, snowdrop gin. 969 00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:13,120 Speaker 1: Thank you Tim from Saxton's River Distillery in Vermont for 970 00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:18,160 Speaker 1: the snowdrop gin. Nice? Is that good? Delicious? Uh? We 971 00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:22,440 Speaker 1: got a another Christmas card, handmade Christmas card from the 972 00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:28,360 Speaker 1: Hoy family in normal, Illinois. It was very normal. Adam 973 00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:31,359 Speaker 1: Pobiac he's a screenprinter and graphic artist and he said, 974 00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:35,360 Speaker 1: remember those awesome Repo Man posters. Those were very sweet, 975 00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:39,880 Speaker 1: So thanks Adam for those. Yep. Uh, Cyrus Ahman or amon. 976 00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,400 Speaker 1: I never asked him how to pronounce his name. He 977 00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:45,080 Speaker 1: interviewed me for his sight. He's got a really cool 978 00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:48,000 Speaker 1: site where he just interviews people he likes UM and 979 00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:51,880 Speaker 1: it's see why are U s A M A and 980 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:55,640 Speaker 1: dot com? And he just a total class act. Just 981 00:56:55,719 --> 00:56:58,280 Speaker 1: to say thanks for the interview, sent some homemade chocolate 982 00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:02,600 Speaker 1: chip cookies that were a may easingly delicious, So thanks Cyrus. Uh. 983 00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:06,319 Speaker 1: We got an assortment of shrubs like drinking shrubs not 984 00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:10,399 Speaker 1: for the lawn from Shaker and Spoon dot com. Oh 985 00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:12,960 Speaker 1: those are good guys. Their advertisers with us now too, 986 00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:17,720 Speaker 1: well fantastic. Thanks thanks everybody, over there. Uh. And speaking 987 00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:20,920 Speaker 1: of booze, Uh, where would we be if we didn't 988 00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:24,320 Speaker 1: thank our good friends at Crown Royal for always keeping 989 00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:28,480 Speaker 1: us wet. They send us. Not only did they give 990 00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:32,200 Speaker 1: us some XR which is like really really really good 991 00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:37,440 Speaker 1: um whiskey. Uh, it's almost like cognaky whiskey. It's so good. Um. 992 00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:41,120 Speaker 1: They made us personalized velvet bags like Crown Royal bags 993 00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:43,000 Speaker 1: that have our names on it, so we can say 994 00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:48,080 Speaker 1: that's mine, uh, Sally Franklin, she works for Crown Publishing Group. 995 00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:50,760 Speaker 1: They send us a couple of great books about women 996 00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:54,040 Speaker 1: in science, one called Women in Science and one called 997 00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:57,800 Speaker 1: Headstrong fifty two women who changed science in the world. 998 00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:00,840 Speaker 1: Good stuff, and they're on our bokshelf here at work 999 00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,840 Speaker 1: now and everyone like reads all these things, so it's great. 1000 00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:07,720 Speaker 1: Yep um. Alex Kernow sent us some amazing prints of 1001 00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:11,520 Speaker 1: states that his fiance makes. Their just beautiful and super 1002 00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:13,840 Speaker 1: kind of old timey looking. They just have a nice 1003 00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,200 Speaker 1: look to him. Um. And you can find them at 1004 00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:20,320 Speaker 1: stampilli s t A M p I l Y on Etsy, 1005 00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:22,880 Speaker 1: So go check those out. And thanks Alex, uh sky 1006 00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,320 Speaker 1: lebrown s k I L E send us her book 1007 00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,600 Speaker 1: to Stay Alive. She said that we inspired her with 1008 00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:31,920 Speaker 1: our episode on the Donner Party and she actually researched 1009 00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:35,760 Speaker 1: and wrote a book about it. Nice. Yeah, it was great. Um, wow, 1010 00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:40,320 Speaker 1: we inspired a book. That's wonderful. Um Korty from Tokyo 1011 00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:44,400 Speaker 1: who sent us a beautiful holiday card, just gorgeous and 1012 00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:47,520 Speaker 1: some wonderful or gami stars. So thank you very much. 1013 00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:50,320 Speaker 1: Our friend Jamie Buckner as a filmmaker and send us 1014 00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:53,280 Speaker 1: a D D D copy of the indie film that 1015 00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:57,640 Speaker 1: he made called Split, which is available also on your 1016 00:58:57,720 --> 00:58:59,600 Speaker 1: Video on demand and Amazon and iTunes if you want 1017 00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:03,120 Speaker 1: to check that out. Split. Matt Dragor sent us some 1018 00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:09,880 Speaker 1: homebrew beer. Thank you, Matt, Raymond Busingeringer be singer, all 1019 00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:13,000 Speaker 1: three of them. Uh. They sent some really cool poster prints. 1020 00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,640 Speaker 1: These are the ones uh and I really love the 1021 00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,160 Speaker 1: stuff they sent Atlanta in eighteen seventy one to me 1022 00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:22,640 Speaker 1: in Toledo in eighteen seventy six to you and uh, 1023 00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:24,720 Speaker 1: you know how I love my maps and these are h. 1024 00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:28,040 Speaker 1: You can find his work at fifteen spelled out f 1025 00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:31,520 Speaker 1: I F T E N dot c A. Uh. The 1026 00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:34,800 Speaker 1: last one for me for today is from Doug Frumpkin, 1027 00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:37,440 Speaker 1: Thank you Doug for sending us coins from the Nuclear 1028 00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:42,160 Speaker 1: Regulatory Commission. Who knew. I'm assuming that they're not irradiated. 1029 00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:45,240 Speaker 1: Uh in my last one, and we're going to continue 1030 00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:49,520 Speaker 1: this on our next episode. UM Kevin from draw Kevin 1031 00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:53,280 Speaker 1: Drawl dot com send his hand printed note cards made 1032 00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:56,520 Speaker 1: from Soy Inc. And they were quite lovely nice. So 1033 00:59:56,560 --> 01:00:01,240 Speaker 1: thanks everybody. Yeah, thanks a million everyone to keep them coming. Huh. Absolutely, 1034 01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:02,720 Speaker 1: And if you want to get in touch with this, 1035 01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:04,600 Speaker 1: you don't actually have to send us anything. You can 1036 01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:06,760 Speaker 1: just say hi if you like. 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