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0 pointsjessaustin12y ago0 comments

A structure 2000 km (actually, 4000 km) long is envisioned, with internal speeds of 14km/s. We're just not very good at building that sort of thing yet.

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mjn12y ago

At those scales, it's considerably harder than building high-speed rail NYC<->LA, and the latter is usually ruled out as infeasible.

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