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12-15-2014 | 04:59 PM
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It's not a dream technologically, I'm sure we can eventually figure out HOW to do it. It's a dream because no one would ever be willing to spend the amount of money required to actually BUILD it. This is a country that can't find money to make sure it's bridges aren't dangerously corroding. There's no way they're going to spend 10+ BILLION on an experimental train.
Airplanes are going to be around long after we're all dead and buried.
12-15-2014 | 06:46 PM
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It's not a dream technologically, I'm sure we can eventually figure out HOW to do it. It's a dream because no one would ever be willing to spend the amount of money required to actually BUILD it. This is a country that can't find money to make sure it's bridges aren't dangerously corroding. There's no way they're going to spend 10+ BILLION on an experimental train.
Airplanes are going to be around long after we're all dead and buried.
Airplanes are going to be around long after we're all dead and buried.
If your conclusion was accurate, how do we explain Japan's 300mph trains that are already running?
12-16-2014 | 12:40 AM
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I once read something that predicted high speed trains for hub to hub travel and airplanes for coast to coast and international travel... That would negate any need for regional airlines in their current form.
12-20-2014 | 05:07 PM
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I think its more likely that high speed trains will ultimately replace air travel. They are getting faster and faster all the time.
Check out this new train in Japan, does over 300mph!! and is fastest in the world. It uses magnetic levitation to get the train up off the tracks reducing friction.
Elon Musk (Tesla Motors / SpaceX) wants to do the same thing with magnetic levitation but with a twist- encase the railway in a vacuum tube thereby eliminating air friction completely. Called the hyperloop.
Japan approves plans for world's fastest train line ? RT News
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0...h-speed-train/
Check out this new train in Japan, does over 300mph!! and is fastest in the world. It uses magnetic levitation to get the train up off the tracks reducing friction.
Elon Musk (Tesla Motors / SpaceX) wants to do the same thing with magnetic levitation but with a twist- encase the railway in a vacuum tube thereby eliminating air friction completely. Called the hyperloop.
Japan approves plans for world's fastest train line ? RT News
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0...h-speed-train/
Yeah, rail travel in this country is already so profitable, why not spend billions more in tax dollars on infrastructure? How much has Amtrack cost the U.S. taxpayers again??
12-20-2014 | 05:09 PM
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A very large and dense population, with shorter travel distances that allow for more efficient use of rail travel.
12-20-2014 | 08:20 PM
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There's also a huge difference between a 300mph train running a short distance, and a 760mph train running a very large distance.
12-20-2014 | 11:09 PM
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Hyperloop would require massive property right of ways and would involve incredibly complex law making, even run 30 feet underground. That gets government involved and it's slow scheduling. With the government involved, the need to accommodate "everyone" would force the system to include "ghetto stops". Now it's no longer an express, just a local. Max Speed makes no difference. Might as well re-fund Amtrack, or even run Greyhound as a public utility. NEVER gonna happen
12-20-2014 | 11:15 PM
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Train the FO as a flight attendant, 95% of the time, they are doing FA stuff in the cabin. If captain needs to poop, they can watch the AP for a little while.
One crewmember eliminated, pay probably remains the same.
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