emergentfutures: New York to London in an hour - by train You could call it a pipe dream. That’s how the BBC refers to it on its website, where a feature story reports that one day soon, trains traveling through vacuum tunnels could whisk passengers from New York to London in an hour, hitting speeds of up 2,500 mph. Full Story: Smartplanet

emergentfutures:

New York to London in an hour - by train

You could call it a pipe dream.

That’s how the BBC refers to it on its website, where a feature story reports that one day soon, trains traveling through vacuum tunnels could whisk passengers from New York to London in an hour, hitting speeds of up 2,500 mph.

Full Story: Smartplanet

Jul. 10 2012
Via emergentfutures
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