tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5251183560375528307.post8637064423071521390..comments2024-03-27T21:44:21.033-05:00Comments on Bit Tooth Energy: Hyperlooping and PlanetranHeading Outhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01790783659594652657noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5251183560375528307.post-63830050542536906192013-08-18T11:20:52.262-05:002013-08-18T11:20:52.262-05:00Thanks, it was likely Starman Jones that I was thi...Thanks, it was likely Starman Jones that I was thinking of. (I had thought it was "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" but I still had that one and when I checked my memory proved false). I think he used the moving walkways in more than one story, but can't be sure after all these years.Heading Outhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01790783659594652657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5251183560375528307.post-50436111542732149032013-08-13T20:23:28.138-05:002013-08-13T20:23:28.138-05:00You are thinking of the 1940 story by Heinlein the...You are thinking of the 1940 story by Heinlein the Roads Must Roll. But the roads were high speed walkways--like conveyor belts. The story itself was a warning against public unions, quite topical today.<br /><br />Heinlein did include outdoor high speed transports--something like a linear drive device. The capsules passed from elevated rings, each ring they approached applied an accelerating force to the approaching capsule. This was in a book, Starman Jones, one of his early juveniles.<br /><br />BKCodeburnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13552591400155167168noreply@blogger.com