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One thing Musk was clear about: The public should participate in questioning, modifying and, ultimately, perfecting his proposal (http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop). And in that respect, there has been no lack of enthusiasm. At the computer simulation software firm ANSYS, engineers are designing and testing a virtual model. The goal is to get a "quick and dirty" sense of how much wind drag a capsule would encounter, and thus how fast it could go, said Sandeep Sovani, the company's director of Global Automotive Industry. Sovani said he has long been intrigued by tube travel (an idea that predates the Hyperloop by a century), and wanted to do a model, both out of intellectual curiosity and on the chance that Musk does eventually go looking for partners. "What I want to do," Sovani said, "is live in Florida and work in Michigan and go back home every day." At 41, he figures it just became a realistic dream.
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