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"But supersonic speeds require another critical step: eliminating the air -- and therefore air friction -- from the train's path. A vacuum would also save the tunnel from the destructive effects of a sonic boom, which, unchecked, could potentially rip the tunnel apart"
I'm glad that's taken care of ... so if there's a crack in the train we'll all get sucked out through a 1 milimeter hole |conehead|
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