>>1598935>People said the same thing about laying steel rails across the entire country and building a machine where you shovel coal into a fire to pull 10,000 tons of shitYou're comparing scale problems with economy problems.
If something works in a 10 km area, it works if you replicate it in a million kms (if all the conditions remain the same).
If something only works if you build in a 10,000 km area, then building 9,999,99 kms won't work, hence its a higher risk for a lot of money.
Its like communism:
>oops, i killed millions yet didn't end hunger, i guess i was wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯If the first railway in the world gone bankrupt, then it would be a small loss and other railways wouldn't be created. Even the multiple bankruptcies in the railway mania in the 1880 UK didn't impeded the remaining railways to profit. But a single hiperloop attempt would cost enough to build 10 250 km/h railways (or one actually functional maglev line like pic related), meaning a higher loss in case of something being wrong (like making a "train" that sits only 4)
