Who thinks we should all travel in tubes?

Question

Who thinks we should all travel in tubes?

Answer 1

Not yet... Idea of building tubes hits costs... Despite wide area of advantages like safety of *surrounding track*, ability of no noise pollution, chance for no-trafic system like system of highway crossroads... Hmmm... but I think it would be great to mount such system in cities... Already I have big hopes for fast introduction of Mag-lev system more commonly worldwide... I understand higher advantage of using tubes... but... we must consider costs and perceive tubes only as improvement so far... Like buiding road from formed stone was a common way of building conections in world... the same one day we can achieve perfect net of traveling build on system of tubes... but... I guess current system cant afford that much...

Answer 2

that would be cool!! hope there wont be any traffic!  We all gonna be living like The Jetsons..LOLZ

Answer 3

Continuous air power from the Jet Stream, approx. 150 mph winds available beginning at height of 3,000 feet.  It would change Earth's history for the better and get us out of Global Warming.  An economy currently all wrapped up in oil is an economy/planet  headed for destruction and us right along with it.  The current U.S. unemployed could be employed to begin its construction and development.  Since ways like this are available but government does nothing to act responsibly, I dare to state that the next step approaches a revolution.  Certainly so, since the current global pollution situation is akin to producting h**l on earth.  This Jet Stream propulsion fix could operate the same way that trains and subways operate (for answerer below), you just have to take it to its jump off point then change directions as desired.

Answer 4

Yeah! Get the scientists working on the tube technology.

Answer 5

You mean, like the internet?  ;-P  (Thank you, Sen. Stevens!)

Or do you mean some tubes like found in the cartoons Futurama (yea, they've been un-cancelled!) or The Jetsons?

Well, the first subway in New York City, NY, USA, was actually a pneumatic tube, by Beach, operated 1870-1873.  Yes, people were zipped around on a gust of air.  Only problem with this demonstration system is that it only traveled for 1 block, and only had 1 car...  Shortly later electric rail cars came into fashion, and this is what now makes up the subway systems in NYC.

http://www.nycsubway.org/articles/beach....

The main problem I see with the Futurama pneumatic-like tube transportation is the ability for the tube to know where to drop you off and its ability to fork off...  Most pneumatic tubes operate more like that found in the Central Bureaucracy than for the public transport system depicted for the 31st century.

I do think that the NYC subway is much better served by the change to electric rail cars, though, than a pneumatic system.  (Pneumatics are pretty neat, for such an old technology!)  Too bad that more cities do not have public/rapid transit services available.

Personally, I rather like the MAG-LEV system that Lexus came up with for the film "Minority Report."  On the electric/magnetic grid while in the city, and conventional car when you travel out of the city.

Answer 6

yooo cool idea! that sounds super duper pooper in my pants AWASOMEEE!!!!!u should make it happen. write a letter to the gov. er sumthing u no? sounds cool!

Answer 7

Me-thinks it,s in the pipe line.

Answer 8

well what if  a terrorist blows up a tube and alls these people think its taken them to mc  donalds but theres a hole in the tube and they fall 50 feet.

Answer 9

I prefer my fun fast sports car sorry.  Individual choice is more important to me than a system of tubes or trains or subways or trollies.

Answer 10

If such a system could be built without huge expense [Oh, it will be a government job, therefore it will cost as much as they can force the taxpayer to pay.] and if it would actually take you safely and comfortably from and to, then perhaps we would.  It does presuppose that everyone will be forced to live in huge cities.

constipato 2 - get some brain laxative and get that stuff out of your head so you can think.  Jet Stream? Ridiculous!

ned s - I agree, I'd rather drive my car.  Individual freedom is power to the people.

Robert M. Mrok (Gloom) - I can see elevated monorails as being good for many commuters with cars that can separate off to many destinations, but for me, I want my personal vehicle.

Answer 11

Might have to in the future, in lines - how boring it will be.

Answer 12

have you been watching futurama, or playing sonic? lol

sounds like a good idea though, You invent it, i'll be your first customer.

Answer 13

Lol it would be awesome, then thers no pollution if it was air powerd lol might have to wear protective gear though lol

Only prob is the cost of it all and saftey mesures =[ lol

Answer 14

I'd rather travel like they do in Star Trek, w/ transporters.

So long as I don't come back in a big pile of goo...

Answer 15

Duuude!!! That is totally aweesome. I like it!!

Answer 16

Presumably you're referring to the London Underground. Yes if it reaches the parts of London we are travelling to. For the sake of the environment we should all use the Underground, buses, the railways or walk or cycle wherever possible.