MANN: Welcome back. Three years ago Elon Musk proposed a transportation scheme that seemed like something out of science fiction. He wanted to send people hurdling through tubes in levitating pods at supersonic speeds. now that vision is one step closer to reality.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 3, 2, 1. Start.</s>MANN: That metal cart just accelerated to 187 kilometers an hour in two seconds. The first public test of Hyperloop One's acceleration technology, one of the early steps toward building a Hyperloop system for passengers. The company thinks they can achieve Musk's vision in just five years, but we're still a little bit away from seeing a fully built Hyperloop. As you may have noticed, there are no actual tubes yet and they haven't gotten the technology that makes the sleds levitate, a key part of how Hyperloop works. While Elon Musk dreamt up Hyperloop, he's not actually building it. He open sourced his plans and invited everyone who's interested to help build and improve on the idea themselves. And as for where you may be able to ride Hyperloop for the first time, the company is still trying to find a location for its first commercial track so there is still a long way to go. We may be one tiny step closer to finding out whether or not we're alone in the universe. NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered almost 1,300 more planets beyond our solar system, that more than doubles the number of planets the telescope has spotted. NASA says nine of the newly found worlds are in what they call the habitable zone where life as we know it might exist. About 500 may be rocky planets about the same size as our own lonely blue Earth. And that is News Stream for today. END
Hyperloop One Step Closer to Reality