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A bunch of safety issues come to mind.
For example, what happens if the tube re-pressurizes due to a crack or something like that? The capsule flies into dense air at 700 mph and, um, that's all she wrote. There's another capsule doing 700 mph behind it, can you brake it in time?
This is addressed in section 4.
(The capsules would be around 6 miles apart at their top speed.)