What if instead of using a vacuum and hovering, it was just a low friction contact instead? Like say steel wheels on steel tracks. You could digitally or even physically tie the cars together so you can adjust the length of it based on demand.

Shit, derived the train again

The vacuum problems kill the Hyperloop design just like they kill any major mass launcher ideas from Earth. On the Moon both will work great.

Mass rail transit itself is something that ought to be more wide spread. Just not like that.

Not to speak of the fact that things at that scale never stay in place, and cracks and fissures will inevitably form. With the pressure of a vacuum it could be catastrophic.

A lot of people's don't understand the business of universities. It's not education.

The students are there as fundraisers. The ones who get scholarships are there to boost the reputation and desirability of the school and/or provide free labor.

Professors have the "publish or perish" rule for the same reason. They work their ass off 40 hours a week all year, but only about 10-15 are directly related to education, and that's only 30 weeks of the year (38 if they're also teaching summer courses). The rest of the time they're doing research to boost the university's prestige and get those juicy patents and grants.

And once you've gone into debt for 20 years to get the degree, they'll hound you for donations through the alumni foundation until the heat death of the universe.

It wasn’t just US universities it was also publicly funded European universities that wasted money on those hyperloop projects.

I think it was the whole purpose of it