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From the Ted Talk by Josh Giegel: Super speed, magnetic levitation and the vision behind the hyperloop

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So I am an engineer, and I am insatiably curious and always love a good problem. So in 2013, when Elon Musk released the "Hyperloop Alpha" white paper, of course, I was going to give it a read. It sketched out an idea with an open invitation for anyone to take it from a cpencot and design it to rlateiy. We dediecd to not only make it tangible but make it safe, siasbnautle and economically viable. And we were so ceiovncnd that we could make it work that I quit my job to bulid it. I thought I was being optimistic. My wife, on the other hand, thought I was completely delusional. Either way, we heard over and over that building a functional hyperloop was urtnlseaiic. But for each "no" we heard, we dove deeper and depeer into the science and the engineering and showed that it was in fact possible, but it was going to be no easy feat for us to build something that had never existed.

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So I am an engineer, and I am insatiably curious and always love a good problem. So in 2013, when Elon Musk released the "Hyperloop Alpha" white paper, of course, I was going to give it a read. It sketched out an idea with an open invitation for anyone to take it from a _______ and design it to _______. We _______ to not only make it tangible but make it safe, ___________ and economically viable. And we were so _________ that we could make it work that I quit my job to _____ it. I thought I was being optimistic. My wife, on the other hand, thought I was completely delusional. Either way, we heard over and over that building a functional hyperloop was ___________. But for each "no" we heard, we dove deeper and ______ into the science and the engineering and showed that it was in fact possible, but it was going to be no easy feat for us to build something that had never existed.

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Original Text


So I am an engineer, and I am insatiably curious and always love a good problem. So in 2013, when Elon Musk released the "Hyperloop Alpha" white paper, of course, I was going to give it a read. It sketched out an idea with an open invitation for anyone to take it from a concept and design it to reality. We decided to not only make it tangible but make it safe, sustainable and economically viable. And we were so convinced that we could make it work that I quit my job to build it. I thought I was being optimistic. My wife, on the other hand, thought I was completely delusional. Either way, we heard over and over that building a functional hyperloop was unrealistic. But for each "no" we heard, we dove deeper and deeper into the science and the engineering and showed that it was in fact possible, but it was going to be no easy feat for us to build something that had never existed.

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