March 2025 — ElonMuskArrested.com

Every few months, someone brings up Elon Musk’s Hyperloop—usually someone new to tech, or someone echoing AI-generated fanboy copy. They say:

“Musk is reinventing transportation!”
“Vacuum tubes will connect cities at 700 MPH!”
“The only reason it’s not done yet is government regulations!”

Let’s be clear:
The Hyperloop is not a new idea.
It’s not feasible.
It’s not safe.
And it’s not being blocked by red tape.
It just doesn’t work.

🕰️ The Idea Isn’t New—It’s 200 Years Old

The first concept of vacuum tube transport dates back to the early 1800s.
In 1864, London even built a pneumatic railway.
By the 20th century, sci-fi books were filled with airless-tube trains.

Musk didn’t invent it.
He just rebranded it with flashy CGI and a white paper written in 2013 that even he admitted he didn’t plan to build.

That’s because the goal was never to build it—it was to:

• Distract from California High-Speed Rail
• Undermine rail projects that would compete with Tesla and airlines
• Create another hype cycle for Musk’s empire

💥 The Physics Don’t Add Up

Let’s review the nightmare:

• You need a near-perfect vacuum over hundreds of miles
• Tubes must be laser-straight, or you create g-forces that will injure passengers
• Expansion, vibration, ground movement, and pressure differences must be accounted for every second
• Emergency exits? Airlocks? Maintenance crews? Good luck evacuating a broken capsule in a sealed vacuum pipe
• And then there’s the energy required to maintain that vacuum, which would be more than the train itself uses

Compare that to planes:

• Fly over everything
• Zero infrastructure between cities
• Already running, scalable, and constantly improving

We had planes by 1903.
They actually worked.
They got better.
They won.

Hyperloop has had 200 years.
It still doesn’t work.

💸 Hyperloop Isn’t a Victim of Red Tape—It’s a Scam

Musk fans love to blame “the left,” or regulations, or some imaginary deep-state rail lobby. But the real reason Hyperloop hasn’t happened is simple:

It’s too expensive, too dangerous, and completely unnecessary.

No serious transit engineer backs it.
Every attempt to build one (Virgin Hyperloop, Hyperloop TT, etc.) has:

• Shut down
• Missed every milestone
• Or pivoted to cargo only, then died anyway

Even Musk’s own Boring Company, which was supposed to start digging Hyperloop tunnels, gave up and built a glorified Tesla valet tunnel in Vegas that’s slower than walking in a straight line.

🏆 Hyperloop Was Just Another Musk Distraction

Musk doesn’t finish things. He markets them.

Hyperloop, like:

• Neuralink (no human trials)
• Optimus robot (still a prop)
• Tesla Semi (mass production delayed for 6+ years)
• Roadster 2 (250 million, 8 years late, never existed)

Was never meant to exist.
It was meant to trend.
And it did.
Then it died—like it always has.

🧠 Disclaimer

This is based on real historical data, physics, and years of technical failure. The Hyperloop is not a victim of overregulation or bad politics—it’s a dumb idea that’s been debunked by reality for two centuries.

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