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Someone should tell China they are doing it all wrong. (hexbear.net)
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[–] 33 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I wonder if you could do one purely for cargo on a limited scale the way pneumatic tube systems used to work in office buildings?

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    I was so disappointed when I found out a lot of the old office buildings in my city had those tubes and they tore them all out

    I always wanted to send something in a tube and I never got a chance

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I wonder if you could even get tubes installed nowadays. You would probably have to spin up a bespoke company to install them, hiring a bunch of people who've never done it before and training as you go, and then everyone would lose their job at the end of the process.

    Just like building railcars in the US.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Founding a tube-based startup with a silly name missing a letter in it like Tubr or something, and you've gotta pay a subscription to keep access to your tubes, but you can send packages through them to other Tubr subscribers

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Nah. Hospitals and certain labs still build new tube systems to move samples or radioactive material around, and some stadiums actually use them to do money drops. They've just largely been replaced in most office buildings by email, since the things usually sent in office towers were usually just papers.

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