Monday, October 16, 2006
Gravity Trains: Take a 42 minute ride from Hawaii to New York
In the 17th century, Robert Hooke showed that if the technology could be developed to bore deep holes through the Earth, a vehicle with sufficiently reduced friction could use such a tunnel to travel to another point anywhere on the on Earth within 45 minutes, regardless of distance. Even more amazingly, the vehicle would require negligible fuel.
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