billions no trillions have been given to the military, do you seriously think that they could not afford to do this??
year on year the military admits that billions of pounds of funding is unaccounted for....stretch your imagination a little and it doesnt take long to realise where is all has disappeared

Originally posted by jkrog08
I dont think it would be as expensive as you think,plus the its already been built more than likely,even if it hasnt I think the benefits would outweigh the cost by alot-think about all of our energy problems and transportation problems.

There is no "our" when it comes to the U.S. government, it is theirs... it's Their's that they created with OUR money. Don't kid yourself.. you think the U.S. government would willingly eliminate the need for petrol usage?

Originally posted by PokeyJoe
I think the G's exerted on the passengers of these trains just about makes it impossible....

Doesnt the space shuttle fly that fast as it orbits the Earth?

14000mph = 22540km/hr = 6261m/s
6261=9.81 x t so time to accelerate to 6261m/s at 1g acceleration will be about 638second or 10.6 minutes

covering a distance of :
v^2 = 0 +2x9.81s

s= 1997967m or 1997.967km

distance from LA to NY about 4000km

probably not ideal to accelerate at 1g, as soon as you get to max speed you need to decelerate at 1g.

i guess 2g might still be comfortable, ive felt 2g in a light aircraft before and well, that wasnt really something pleasant.

First of all great thread op!

reading through the thread i am starting to understand the technical aspects of what you are proposing one thing that has not yet come up though which i would like to know as i am not a techie is how do they create and maintain the vacuum within the tunnel?

any help on this would be appreciated

I leave you in the love and light of the creator...

Originally posted by coldlikecustard
First of all great thread op!

reading through the thread i am starting to understand the technical aspects of what you are proposing one thing that has not yet come up though which i would like to know as i am not a techie is how do they create and maintain the vacuum within the tunnel?

any help on this would be appreciated

I leave you in the love and light of the creator...

Unfortunately the OP of this thread is one of our ATSers that has passed on. This was an old thread that is often resurrected, and is relevant at this time because of the odd sky sounds and earthquakes around the country.

I hope someone comes along with good ideas about how to evacuate tunnels of that length. I think that would be one of the hardest technological aspects.

Acoording to my calculation you could get to 10,000 MPH in around 20 minutes, pulling less than half a gee. that's 40 minutes accelerating AND decelerating combined at an average rate of 5,000 MPH AND you will have traveled ~3300 miles in that time having only experienced around half a gee. A trip from NY to LA made in an hour would be quite comfortable, provided seats reverse and accel/decel were constant.

Originally posted by thomowen20A trip from NY to LA made in an hour would be quite comfortable, provided seats reverse and accel/decel were constant.

That IS in the plan

The issue here isn't if it's possible to travel at speeds of up to 14,000 mph because quite frankly no one even knows if this is true let alone at what speed it can travel up to. I personally think there's an underground transit system but I wouldn't get into exactly how my mph it could travel because that's beside the point. Also beside the point is the monetary issue. If you think our government lets us know exactly how much money they have or even if their using any money at all to fund these secret projects than you're most likely deluded. You don't know what's going on behind the scenes and niether do I but I'd be willing to bet my life that money isn't an issue. I really wanna find out what the hell is going on. I feel like a lot of stuff that's been happening in the past 65 years are all correlated to one big event that's about to unfold, I haven't put my finger on it yet but it seems like its going to be the biggest event in recorded history.