hockey table. confused? we were, too, so we went out to gut some answers. it sounds like something out of the jetsons. a space age method of transport that could one day get you from san francisco to l.a. in 30 minutes. i met up with science writer brian inside the old school new york city subway system to get the real hyper loop scoop. what do we think it might be like? it s supposed to be nothing like the infrastructure we re used to, right? right, so he says it s going to be the fifth mode of transportation like nothing we ve seen before. he says it looks like a tube, sort of like an enclosed tube and we just blast air through that. kind of like you know those old school mail systems where they stuff the package up and it gets sucked up. we re going to be launched out of this rail gun. boom, you re off. 600 miles per hour. so, i m imagining my face. is this something i want to ride