It also doesnt account for basic American boredom:
Nearly every time a Boeing fuselage is shipped via train halfway across the country, they have to fix all of the bullet holes in it from bored riflemen in flyover states shooting it as it rolls down the tracks.
Basically the reverse of all of the shooting of Buffalo from trains during the westward expansion.
Eventually, someone with a high powered sniper rifle or even anti materiel rifle would take a pot shot at a vaccuum tube, which would then basically rip itself apart if it penetrated.
Recommended Viewing/listening A more fundamental problem is actually making a vacuum tube
This is very true, I think one company spent like 8 years figuring out how to actually design an actually useful, actually reliable train tunnel sized vacuum seal, and then basically disappeared after…
…well its really expensive to just make one. And it would take even more money to be able to ramp up production facilities to be able to make the many needed for a theoretical system of them. And it would take forever to build them, in terms of ‘oh no our loans are due and our investors are angry’.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Nearly every time a Boeing fuselage is shipped via train halfway across the country, they have to fix all of the bullet holes in it from bored riflemen in flyover states shooting it as it rolls down the tracks.
Please gods let this be true
As requested by apparently a mod…?
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https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=276419
https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/paxszc/i_id_never_seen_fuselage_being_transported_like/
https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1q1ew6/boeing_737_fuselages_on_train_ride/
While my dad may be an insane QAnon adherent who believes that Tom Hank’s son rapes children to death for their adrenochrome, he was at least useful in that he has worked at Boeing his whole life and would tell me something like this every once in a while.