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hamsterpower · 01-15-2016, 08:10 AM

Read about a similar project but trans pacific under water, in Popular Mechanics, back in the early '90s. Either way it sounds ridiculous to me. How much energy (and time) does it take to suck the air out of a tube that big?

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