[_Codemonkeyism]

Musk plan:

1. Announce Hyperloop to the world

2. Let someone else build it with tubes

3. Go to Mars

4. Use everything people have built - and went bankrupt - in the thin atmosphere on Mars with success without expensive tubes.

Now the SpaceX plans, the Mars plans and Hyperloop come together.

[deftnerd]

I wouldn't be surprised if his involvement in Solar City comes into the picture somehow either.

[_Codemonkeyism]

+100

[nickparker]

You still need tubes on Mars for a vanilla air-levitation based Hyperloop. Martian fines would wreak havoc on your compression system.

The mag-lev systems could perhaps run on exposed pistes though.