Evacuated Tube Transport Technology. Heard of this?
 

http://et3.net/

Some Futurama type stuff. They say it can be done with current technology. Go to China from Canada in about 2 hours.

years ago someone raised money to do 1-5 hour shipments of good anywhere in the usa using rockets, interesting investors fell for it

EB whats a good email to reach you at? I have domain maybe we could do something with.