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 I think I read that Tom Swift book: Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster.

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

I think I read that Tom Swift book: Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster.

Source: emergentfutures

10 July 2012 379 futurescope
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