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A vacuum tube which means it must be a near-perfect seal for the entire length of it (hundreds of kilometers of a perfect seal while undergoing heat expansion) and if even a tiny puncture happens to the sealed passenger container they get turned into mashed potato
Why did people ever entertain that nonsense?