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Elon Musk's Big Idea: The Hyperloop, an 800mph Pneumatic Tube

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b_sharp8/12/2013 4:36:50 pm PDT

Warehouses used to use vacuum tubes to pass documents between offices. They’d pop the document into a small tube shaped carrier, open a door in the transport tube connecting two offices, load the carrier and then press a button after closing the door. The carrier would whoosh to the target office.

Humans may become those lucky documents and experience the thrill of the whoosh.