five, five, six-hour journey. there s portraying something that could beam you down here. you said you wouldn t do this. he has a great vision of new science and technologies and exploring ways of things that nobody thought of before. i myself, i m late in life. i love to drive. i count the time that i would drive from my home to an airport, go through the security stuff where you feel so demeaned by you haven t flown since 9/11? i have not flown since 9/11. if i can drive in a day. that means salt lake city, 12 hours. phoenix, 12 hours. i drive. i don t fly. i m just the wrong person to ask. i thought about the hyper loop. 30 minutes from here to l.a. the flying time for a plane is 45 minutes. you have cut 15 minutes of a plane flight and still have to go through where will you check your luggage? there is a no carry-on abilities
else does next week. somebody will do something legitimately irresponsible. blow something up in iraq that kills 140 people. i m sorry of the i m sorry. i tease this more on twitter than i do real news stories. let s go to joling on the jet pack story. you said you want to get on a jet pack right out of here and that it would be great and it would look like it is as powerful as a microwave. that seems like a beam me up trans ponder and not a jet pack. i suppose you are right. but my heart is with the hyper loop. i want to get on the high speed rail and go across to china in two hours. mike, you said, i hope they make jet packs soon. jay carney said there will be a jet pack made in the united states and basically energized by solar panels and ethanol and unicorn oil.
up, you are my fire, the one desire. believe when i say i want it that way. not a story, just a very direct text message i got from steve doosey last night. he is freaking me out. is the hyper loop the fastest train in the history of the history. what do i look like an expert in hyper loops, you jerk?
an airplane. so, it s there would be an initial acceleration. once traveling at speed you wouldn t notice the speed at all. so you would just be extremely smooth like riding on a cushion of air really. reporter: the pods in a hyper loop would travel on cushions of compressed air above ground in a near vacuum powered by electrical motors solar panels and kinetic energy. if it seems far-fetched you are not looking far enough into the future and you don t know elon musk says ron dihedron of the moneta institute. he is motivated by taking on impossible tasks and being successful. reporter: it was musk who developed paypal, musk transitioned space flight to the commercial sector and musk with engineers developed the tesla electric car. he is not a person who stand on past accomplishments. a futurist and professor. after you made your first $1
seat when it decelerates. bill: is it pressurized cabin? it cabin is pressurized because the tube outside is depressurized is bill: lea to beijing in two hours. go from l.a. to san francisco in 30 minutes. that is $10 billion maybe. that is what he says. bill: so the state of california right now, building a high speed rail system. it is expensive. it is $70 billion. yeah. bill: how can the hyperloop be built at $6 billion? he claims it is cheaper to build this thing. you saw the double barrels hanging over the ground like a monorail sort of. it is cheaper to build it that way to build a rail bed. funny enough, less work done on the ground. and there s less land to be taken up. less farmers to be paid off. he would use existing right-of-way for the highway, i-5 i think it is. bill: i think this is a fascinating diagram too. do you think this is, obviously it s a concept. is it conceivable?