THIS is the Future of Transport?

In this video we'll look at Futurama's tube transport system to try and understand how the concept works and could be employed in a future nearer than the year 3000.

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Intro 0:00
History 2:08
Mechanics 3:20
Final thoughts 9:00

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[ukkovalta]

Fun fact: aperture science also uses tubes as a way to move stuff around the massive facility

[Spaceagefox]

given that futurama has working antigrav tech to the point that wheeled cars were unheard of, its likely the travel tubes uses antigrav tech to replicate those pressure differentials you were talking about, those golden rings could be the gravitic manipulators pulling the passenger to the destination while automatically turning them for turns my manipulating the gravity within the tube

[CrowArchLane]

This channel is knocking it out of the park recently! Seriously deserve way more subs

[mewosh_]

>Futurama fan
>public transport nerd
=perfect video for me

[slizzysluzzer]

This is a setting that casually has antigravity pills you can take to ignore the effects of a gravitational field on planets with high gravity. My suspicion is that there's no pressurization involved at all.

[lithostheory]

This is the future! They're not using air pressure but some other kind of technology we can't even phantom right now :)

[Soguwe]

I don't think they use air pressure differentials. The people who go through the tube are clearly pushed through the air inside; their hair gets all wavy like in a brisk breeze
If I had to guess, I'd say they use spacetime compression differentials, aka artificial gravity. That would also make the gaps all over the system possible

Also, on a different note, Musk has just straight up admitted the Hyperloop was some nonsense he made up to halt the high-speed rail project. It's not a conspiracy theory, he just straight up did that

[tollutollu]

This is great. Youtube just suggested this video to me, never seen your channel before -- this is great, and I have a sneaking suspicion your channel is gonna do a lot of growing in the near future

[mronewheeler]

Maybe those gold colored rings around the tube have some advanced technology in them that can exert precise control over passengers, keeping them from hitting the walls or directing them properly through forks in the tube. Maybe there's no air pressure involved at all but some kind of magnetism or something

[mjdally]

I got genuine claustrophobia when I think about the scene where they’re talking about overcrowded tubes and people are literally stuck pressed up against the glass…😳😱🤯😰😵

[SebastianD]

Lady liberty holding a tube reminds me of that train accident in rotterdam a few years back, where the train was held up by a whale fin statue.

[pullahuru]

I believe the rings inside the tube are designed to generate a cyclonic airflow, creating a high-pressure zone that prevents people from coming into contact with the walls. These rings likely contain controllable nozzles. It would be interesting for someone with expertise in CFD to verify if this concept is feasible."

[Game_Blox]

Satisfactory's Hypertubes were probably inspired by the Futurama tube networks.

[mr.whiskers]

it could utilize electromagnets to move people instead of pressure differential. would make changing direction easier as well.

[andersonklein]

I wasn't up to date with Elon Musk's particular conception of it, but wasn't the whole idea of a hyperloop just to make Maglev but inside vacuum (or close to vacuum) tubes?
In theory, a Maglev in a vacuum tube is the perfect mode of transportation, frictionless and without air resistance, it can accelerate and cruise at ridiculous speeds safely and smoothly.

[FreebirthBoccara]

nah.. the golden rings at regular intervals are matter accelerators. there's no suction. also explains how they just hover there.. they are repulsors. the glass is just there so people don't get hit by birds and stuff. you stand in the tube, announce your destination and your pulled towards the first ring..then he next and so on. until you reach your destination.

[civishamburgum]

Actually pneumazic tube systems have made a comeback recently. digitalisation has relyy gotten down the operatin costs and since the messages are nye impossible to intercept the've become popular in sensitive settingms.

[seamusfinnegan]

Could the rings have any theoretical impact? like countless mini tubes with the likes of something like a force field or similar technology providing various micro calibrations at a mass scale? I mean alot of similar tech such as the mentioned floatation devices utilize rings like what is found all along the tube as seeming some kind of support but what if they are FAR more important than that?

[Theover]

I enjoyed this. I hope to see more of your content in my feed soon!

[robertheinrich]

saw such a system in a steel factory. get the samples from the blast furnace into the laboratory within 2 minutes? pneumatic tube is your friend.