Yeah, that’s why we don’t have any thousands mile long tubes transporting dangerous substances.

None of those are vacuum tubes. This is nonsense.

What happens when someone shoots a gun at them?

They leak. Literally all the time. They keep working. This won’t.

I think it was a good thing to try.

Okay well you got there eventually.

I’m just saying that some guy commenting on a blog is not a good reason not to try.

The good reason not to try is that bullet trains have proved working perfectly in other parts of the world. Sure, they would be slower than an hypothetical hyperloop but they are a working technology that would help alleviate the transportation problem.

Why invest in a project that might lead nowhere?

I’m not anti experimentation, by any means. It’s just that as the article says, the hyperloop was proposed when a bullet train was being discussed by local politicians.