This Weekend,

a competition for a future means of travel pod,

for the hypothetical tube-based transportation system will begin, Phase 1 of the much-anticipated Hyperloop competition will begin, last weekend, teams from around the world will gathered at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, the idea is that a closed system of tubes sends pods hurtling between destinations at speeds in excess of 750 miles per hour, but there is just a slight fly in the ointment, no one knows how to make it work, there are many companies competing for the competition, last Friday, 124 teams from 20 countries (and 26 U.S. states) were be there, plus four of the teams are composed of high schoolers, vying for the attention of industry sponsors alongside the 120 university teams, several schools are fielding more than one team, for instance Texas A&M, the host school, is sending seven teams, hopefully the result will be announced soon, so we will know who is going down the tube.