Crowdsourcing ideas for Elon Musk’s futuristic tubes.
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Since it was announced, the Hyperloop — Elon Musk's potentially insane, potentially game-changing plan to shoot people in pods through giant tubes — has captured imaginations with its heady possibilities and sci-fi flair. Now, Space X is letting anyone in on the project, by way of a design competition.
The competition, announced on Monday, is aimed at university students and independent engineering teams, who will have until September 15th of this year to come up with a design for a pod. Then they'll have to build and present a prototype at Space X's Hyperloop Competition Weekend, which will take place in June 2016.
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Entrants can also submit only the design for a pod, "subsystem," or safety feature, although there's no official competition for design-only teams. Instead, they will receive design feedback from an evaluation panel of "mostly SpaceX engineers, Tesla Motors engineers, and university professors."
(And the opportunity to "participate in a fun educational event.")
Teams that opt to build their designs will have the chance to take on sponsorships in January, when all the approved competition designs will be presented at Texas A&M University.
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