It's really not. It just dispenses with the pretense of neoliberal economics and the conservative knee-jerk objection of "BUT HOW WILL YOU PAAAAAY FOR IT?" This is your conservative priors showing, and you should take efforts to eliminate it from yourself. The question is "but where will the resources come from" and the answer is that the labor hours for construction will come from rerouting the labor that is done on useless paper pushing office jobs who will now be enjoying a life as manual laborers instead of white collar wine aunts. Very fitting if you ask me.
One bullet is all it takes if you build it above ground. The only way to do magtubes is to create the tubes underground in stone where explosions and bullets and mindworms won't depressurize the system. It's not to say it's impossible, but it would require an extremely revolutionary approach. Better get ready to build some T-Formers, Nwabudike. Pic related. Or just set up some nuclear plants the synthesize synthetic jetfuel and keep flying.
Fine, but like the hyperloop it requires new revolutionary technology that is unproven and not immediately actionable.
This is doable today, if you allow traditional high pressure water reactors, and a good idea if the goal was to keep the American empire afloat. I have no objections. But you know what would help get this done faster? Inventing T-Formers that defragment the earth's crust and replace it with pure sillicate crystals with vacuum tube infrastructure, fresh water sequestration tanks, and other infrastructure already in place deep under ground where it is impervious to nuclear attacks.
Would be cool if vacuum railways were anything more than a pipe dream/bomb. If someone can come up with a way to avoid cascade failure then go ahead, but no one knows how to do that right now.
Sure, Elon. Sure. Literally the only way to make the magtube is to build it underground where there is no risk of catastrophic depressurization.
Jackson Butler
Why wouldn’t you use a hovertank chassis on the Super Formers? Why not throw some stasis generator armor on it and put singularity engines in them? It might seem like it would take dozens of turns to make one because of the expense, but what does the cost matter anyway? You could always just raise the taxes on the drones and pretend like the armored singularity hover formers are more efficient that the standard super formers.
Eli Scott
How do planes land?
Levi Flores
Prototypes are expensive
Camden Adams
Nah brah, just build a couple hundred clean seaformers, build thousands of solar platforms in the oceans, use hundreds of foil supply ships (trawlers) to gather the solar energy, wait for 11 minerals to be completed on your hoverformers, and then hurry construction. About 2 turns to make anything once your energy income is high enough.
If you breach the hyperloop vacuum, air will rush up the length of the tube with the force of a 1500 pound object moving at the speed of sound, which will vaporize the steel tube.
Grayson Taylor
Try to stop chimping out for a few minutes and actually read this
