The Evacuated Tube Transport Technology Network

An extraordinary mobility technology, ET3 shows the ingenuity of modern 21st century man. The challenge of taking this great concept to fruition is one of the greatest challenges for human survival on earth. All living patterns are movement in motion as seen under the microscope or as observed in the heavens.

Every day now the vehicular transportation, aircraft and shipping increasingly shrink the world. It seems that our present mobility mission however is likely to contaminate our air water, and food, as well as diminishing global cultures of their fascinating diversity. This is due to essentially copying the transportation status quo of getting around and building cities that are not harmonious with the Natural environment.

But each day nations are blandly copying one another. All nations now see and hear global cultures revealed on cell phones almost instantly. These virtual images, sounds and voices in foreign tongues are hard to evaluate and clearly understand.  The value of so doing has to be questioned in the building of villages, towns and cities where a great variety of geographic conditions exist.

The spatial conditions, mobility factors and city placement that intersect latitude/longitude of continental city positions have kept nationalities somewhat insular from one another. No more is this possible with current Internet communications worldwide.

Cultures are now aware of outer space travel, ocean depths and nuclear annihilation. These populations are discovering leadership that exposes deficiencies and governance frailties. The younger population’s expectations are rapidly changing. The desire of fast growth for better living environments has become an urgent demand in new city-state creation, thus demanding a better form of livability.

This has created numerous survival concerns and in addition has revealed a new popular opposition with a vastly different and complex view of our world as seen from orbiting space satellites. We are now closer than ever before recognizing that it is almost impossible to ignore the monitoring our every movements. This realization of an unexpected transparency of “real-time” knowledge accumulation that we are gathering in data banks worldwide should give us concern and caution in our behavior patterns.   We are realizing that God sees and accounts for all things.

We are daily living two lives - one virtual without boundaries and the other working for reality survival. Until we face the reality of using our six senses fully, we are killing the things we love that support us such as the wildness and beauty found in the abundance of Natures resources. We have to learn new human interaction patterns in our daily social ongoing that cannot only be accomplished electronically. Are we doomed if this electronic communication technology is switched off for a given time? What is the Plan B mechanical backup for such a catastrophic vulnerability if such a possible future event comes into being?

Each day we are flooded with millions of new inventions from billions of creative human minds. Our desire for useful discovery must be evaluated, translated and applied to respect each innovation that will support city building.

The long-term view of ET3 as a next step in priority transportation innovation is to acknowledge its application as the first choice for future mobility implementation. It will cause an impact that is far-reaching toward serving transportation needs that will more than adequately serves villages, towns and cities. Existing cities will be in transition while new cities will be developed far more creatively as reality models in harmony with Nature

The challenge for all thinkers and doers is to consider the changes that will be brought about with ET3 introduction. Imagine saving monies for a solo trip around the world lasting only ten days. Where would one go and what countries would one visit? Most important of all what impact would this have as a learning experience for personal understanding of the cultures visited?

ET3 is not only benign to the environment; it will heal the planet; it will collapse time and distance; it will become affordable travel for people; it will transmit essential food, water and manufactured products for on-time global delivery within hours. ET3’s goal is to bring about an interface with all world cultures and at the same time maintain individual cultural uniqueness. ET3 will underlie better urban designed villages, towns and cities with lesser footprints for habitation, interlaced with integrated agriculture adjacent to natural environments.

There is a most interesting fountain sculpture at the downtown Bakersfield Amtrak Station. Carved indelibly into the granite base is the following inscription: “Riches through Knowledge, Knowledge through Travel” by Edward J Hogan.

There is something far more simple and sobering about the implementation of ET3 when considering a quote from Mark Twain who said: "travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness”. ET3 will accomplish an enormous cultural leap into global habitable places with its introduction.

Graham Kaye Eddie

M.U.D.

3/7/2011