Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Worlds largest Hyperloop Company GOES BANKRUPT!" video.

Yeah as a Gen-Xr getting laugh at the Millennials who go suckered into this nonsense is the best LMAO moment I have had in a while and a great way to start 2024.
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@ominous-omnipresent-they Actually I am trying to convince a Boomer at the moment Elon is full of SHlT, but its slow going. BUT look at most of the Elon fanbase, they're millennials. Look at all the examples in this video and ask how many are millennials?
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@ominous-omnipresent-they AND Yeah I forgot all the hillbillies in West Virginia but their millennials look that old from the inbreeding. 🤔🤔🤔
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AEROSPACE ENGINEER here: For professors there's 2 points and the first of those is MONEY as in how much can they drag into their department. The second is that they like to put ideas in front of students at times they ALREADY KNOW can't work and the actual lesson is in recognising it. Third they will at times give students a novel idea to investigate for their final year project. We had 2 options my year. The first was for a 4 seat light aircraft and the second (which I did) was for a novel kind of comet fly by space craft. It had a detachable shield that flew ahead of the space craft and provided a clear area free of the tails dust to fly in and observe the comment unobstructed. It was novel and innovative and would also NEVER WORK, but we got what we were supposed to get which was the experience of working on a team project. So I hope that answers part of your question. The bit I'd be far more inquisitive of is how so many got conned by the fact it was never viable for reasons people had discovered decades ago. In aerospace Robert Goddard the guy who first wrote about trains in vacuum tubes is also the father of modern rocketry. He's a legend and his work is well known. Plus there's all sorts of sci-fi where this sort of travel was shown - Logans Run and Space 1999 being 2 I know of. THIS WASN'T A NEW IDEA. And that's what quite a few college professors need to be asked: "How did you NOT see this was nonsense or WASN'T an original idea and let your students believe it was a new idea?"
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It was also a good way, as Gen-Xr to demonstrate how stupid millennials are at being sucked in by a clown like Elon Musk. Maybe they'll now stop telling us how tech-savvy they are. Being able to use an iPhone or the internet does not make a person tech-savvy.
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