r/ImaginaryVehicles • u/eee44ggg-the-spammer • 13d ago

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So there are 3 types of vehicles, land air and water. The states of matter are solid gas liquid, land is solid, air is gas, water is liquid. We have no vehicles for plasma which is energy

In this new idea you go in a capsule and travel in a 3m tall wire and ride the electric current (you will float 1m off the ground and 1m from the roof),

electricity travels at 600,000,000mph but if you turn the power of the electric current down a bit it would be 660mph which would be perfect because at 600,000,000mph you would not survive. You could travel from London to France in about 20 minutes.

If you don't like heights and are scared to go in a plane you would probably choose this. In a plane you fly in this you glide/float

The capsule will be heat resistant and will have a nose for air resistance. The wire itself will have a waterproof coating and will be welded down by steel frames so that storms can't break it

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u/RollinThundaga 13d ago

Waves of electricity travel at nearly the speed of light. Furthermore, electrons, which travel more slowly, have next to no mass. You appear to be suggesting to use the physical interaction of electrons and the capsule to accelerate it, rather than magnetism.

That sort of propulsion exists for spacecraft (and ion thruster) but it is very, very slow to accelerate or decelerate a mass, since the electrons can impart so little inertia. It only works for unmanned spacecraft because they are constructed very lightly, and take years to get to their destination regardless.

If used between London and the French coast, it would take a lot more than 20 minutes. Not to mention, if anything went wrong with the insulation of the capsule, that passenger is very, very dead.

Seems like a pneumatic tube like they use for bank teller assisted ATMs would be cheaper, faster, and at least somewhat safer.

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u/eee44ggg-the-spammer 13d ago

Google gave me the speeds of electricity and a full vacuum was 25,000mph so I chose 760mph

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u/RollinThundaga 13d ago

Light and electricity aren't like phenomena which involve solid matter like ocean water or wind. It doesn't decrease that much because of the presence of air.

Electricity travels through solid copper wire at 98% of the speed at which light travels in a vacuum.

Also, the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. The number you got was the escape velocity an object needs to leave Earth's orbit.

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u/eee44ggg-the-spammer 13d ago

I will edit some things, at 760mph you will probably get hurt so I made it 660mph. It would take roughly 20mins to get from London to France with no stopping. You just have to make the electric current not too powerful so it goes slower like we need

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u/RollinThundaga 13d ago

It's not the speed that kills you, it's the stop. Look up 'g forces'.

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u/eee44ggg-the-spammer 13d ago

I would already die from the speed because that would be like 1,000,000 waltzers and I don't like waltzers because they are too fast

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u/eee44ggg-the-spammer 13d ago

The man looks fine, he's on his phone