• The Around the World in 80 Days

    has landed on France 2 in a modernized version.

  • The opportunity to time the trip with the means of transport of the future such as Elon Musk's Hyperloop or the AirCar, still in prototype state, which can carry two occupants and fly 1,000 kilometers at a maximum altitude of 2,500 meters.

Eighty days, a handful of hours, even less? How long would it take Phileas Fogg, the hero of the adventure novel

Around the World in Eighty Days

written by Jules Verne in 1872, would it have taken to travel the globe if he had traveled in 2050? Between the Hyperloop and the Hydrail, several projects imagine a super high speed train that would exceed 700 km / h within thirty years. On the one hand, the Hyperloop launched by billionaire Elon Musk, named personality of the year by

Time

, is in development.

It is based on the idea of ​​circulating pressurized capsules, or "pod", in low pressure tubes to overcome aerodynamic friction and brush against the sound barrier.

The idea has been taken up by other start-ups, such as Virgin Hyperloop or the American Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT or HTT).

The Hyperloop promises to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than thirty minutes, at more than 1,000 km / h.

There are still many technical issues to overcome, but the way we travel may change in the years to come.

Not to mention the arrival of flying cars, such as the AirCar, whose prototype made a successful first flight last June.

They could revolutionize our daily life.

On the occasion of the broadcast on France 2 of the eight episodes of the first season of Around the World in 80 Days, a free adaptation of Jules Verne's masterpiece, worn by David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma and Leonie Benesch, let's see this that would give the stages of the journey with the means of transport of the future.

London - Suez

Let us go back to the stages of the cult novel by Jules Verne.

Phileas Fogg and Jean Passepartout left London and took seven days to reach Suez, Egypt.

If they made this trip in 2050, imagining that they take the Eurostar path with the Hyperloop, then that they pass through Milan and Brindisi, in Italy, still with Elon Musk's machine (let's say crazy), they would take around 1h46 to reach Brindisi from London.

Remember that the theoretical speed of the Hyperloop is over 1000 km / h.

By accepting that Phileas Fogg swap his liner for an AirCar, which flies at 170 km / h, he would reach Suez in 14 hours.

Result: in 2050, it would take less than 24 hours to complete this step, against seven days in the novel.

Suez - Mumbai

Direction Bombay, India.

In the original work, Phileas Fogg took an ocean liner for thirteen days, but in 2050 he will continue with the flying craft invented by Stefan Klein.

The AirCar can travel a distance of up to 1,000 kilometers non-stop, points out an article from

Ouest France

.

Here, it would need a range of around 5,000 km.

But everything will be possible by then.

About thirty hours would be enough, without counting the four stopovers to restart the car, to reach Bombay from Suez.

Bombay - Calcutta

This time, back by train.

The crossing of India, from Bombay to Calcutta, is 1,875 km, according to Google Maps.

We take Elon Musk's supersonic train, hoping that the line will be created by 2050. At more than 1000 km / h, Phileas would make a journey of about 1h50, compared to three days in the original work.

Calcutta - Hong Kong

Phileas took over a liner for this stage and the two following ones.

Destination Hong Kong for a distance of about 6,500 km.

In AirCar, Phileas would take 36 hours, instead of six days.

Not to mention the technical concerns because there are no stopovers possible in the middle of the sea. But we believe in 2050.

Hong Kong - Yokohama

Six more days on the liner to go to Yokohama, Japan.

But in the future, we can reduce the trip to 17 hours by flying car.

Yokohama - San Francisco

It would take him more than two days (around 49 hours) to reach San Francisco, in the United States, with the AirCar.

Considerable time savings compared to the original 22 days.

San Francisco - New York

For the crossing of the United States, the Hyperloop is needed again.

That's nearly 4,700 km to cover, Google Maps says.

One shot at super high speed and it's folded in less than 5 hours, instead of 22 days.

Find the Future (s) section here

New York - London

Last stage which mixes train and steamer in the work of Jules Verne.

Phileas takes 9 days to cross the Atlantic to London.

If he made a stopover in Paris to take a Hyperloop back to London, it would take around 34 hours from New York to the French capital by AirCar, then 30 minutes from Paris to London.

In 2050, Phileas would travel around the world in 240 hours, that is to say 10 days.

It would be eight times less time than at the end of the 19th century.

Good performance.

Style

"Around the world in 80 days": Retro Christmas gifts for globetrotters

Series

"Around the World in 80 Days": A date and a season 2 already ordered

20 seconds of context

The travel times have been calculated with a ladle by the journalist and are not contractual.

  • Elon musk

  • Hyperloop

  • Series

  • Adventure

  • Novel

  • France 2

  • Culture

  • 0 comment

  • 0 share

    • Share on Messenger

    • Share on Facebook

    • Share on twitter

    • Share on Flipboard

    • Share on Pinterest

    • Share on Linkedin

    • Send by Mail

  • To safeguard

  • A fault ?

  • To print