Too bad we can't have good public transportation
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Yabbut somebody think of the car companies!!!
While continuing to produce the worst cars imaginable
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Plot twist, the bullet train only goes to an enormous city in which nobody lives or work.
Edit for reference, clearly y'all never heard of these:
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/chinas-ghost-cities-and-its-65-million-empty-homes
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Plot twist, the bullet train only goes to an enormous city in which nobody lives or work.
Edit for reference, clearly y'all never heard of these:
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/chinas-ghost-cities-and-its-65-million-empty-homes
Reality: Trains in China go pretty much everywhere and are often sold out days in advance.
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Oh trains! Now do pollution, or infrastructure, or empty cities...
A year ago I would have said Concentration Camps, but we both have those now.
You should try to find better criticism.
wrote last edited by [email protected]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoccupied_developments_in_China
empty cities
Not so empty anymore, and calling them empty was bullshit.
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when we care
Yeah but who would get to skim off the top of that?
Oh, you dont think Lockheed skimmed off the top of the Apollo program?
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Oh, you dont think Lockheed skimmed off the top of the Apollo program?
Sure by loke 60s standards. That would be like saying a cave that doesn't get too damp when it rains is luxury, because cave people thought so.
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This is because public transportation is socialism and we can't have tax dollars going to that pretext for communism. Capitalism is far superior which is why we are instead spending over $150 billion on deporting immigrants, which will help promote a free and open capitalist market.
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Every three years China pours more concrete than the US has since WWII.
Bragging about encasing the natural world in a synthetic crust and displacing wildlife... Great flex
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Reality: Trains in China go pretty much everywhere and are often sold out days in advance.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Trains being sold out days before is not a good sign, it means people are missing their appointments
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https://www.pekingnology.com/p/china-massively-overbuilt-high-speed
Good luck dealing with that financial bomb.
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China 2060: ..... a space elevator
USA 2060: .... still the same rail service
a space elevator
You'd have to harness carbon nanotubes first... then deal with all the debris in LEO, then come up with an elevator that doesn't take days to reach GEO (granted the counterweight can rest there and the cab can stop sooner).
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Just a reminder that concrete releases huge amounts of CO2 as it cures. Empty cities don't help anyone.
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https://www.pekingnology.com/p/china-massively-overbuilt-high-speed
Good luck dealing with that financial bomb.
so? even if that's true, that doesn't mean high speed rail is bad. it means you should be more careful with the planning, not "don't try new shit for the next forever years"
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Replaced by machines that can't transport humans or even freight for that matter
now I want to watch an entire playlist of Adam Something videos about dumbass tech bros trying to invent the train over and over again
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Their intention was to bolster the economy with busy work, but that's not a long term solution.
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Their intention was to bolster the economy with busy work, but that's not a long term solution.
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That's comparing Apples to Shampoo. To completely different concepts and it's not an either/or situation.
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It's exaggerated and massively understated depending on location.
There are several metro areas in the US with over 1 million people that has zero metro/subway or light rail, some of them don't even have a passenger train connections or stations, or at most it stops by once or twice a day. Places like Columbus Ohio that has literally zero rail passenger rail for over 2m people in the metro area. If you want to take the train from there to NYC you'll have to spend a couple of hours on a bus to a different city first. And it's not like they never had it, they razed the train station in the 70s.
Other places that lack light rail or metro and have 1m+ people in the metro area: Tampa, San Antonio, Indianapolis, Oklahoma, Memphis, Richmond, Louisville, Rochester, etc. with many of them having a very bad outside passenger train connections. There are also a bunch of others that almost slipped by or did stay off the list over technicalities like having a single tram line going up and down main street or similar. Places like Orlando, Cincinatti, etc.
I recently planned out a trip to Chicago using trains. The fastest and most cost efficient route was to drive 3 hrs to Indianapolis and then take a 3 hr train to Chicago from there. Literally, the passenger rail network in the US is so bad that the fastest and cheapest way to travel by train is to do it as little as possible.
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That's comparing Apples to Shampoo. To completely different concepts and it's not an either/or situation.
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a space elevator
You'd have to harness carbon nanotubes first... then deal with all the debris in LEO, then come up with an elevator that doesn't take days to reach GEO (granted the counterweight can rest there and the cab can stop sooner).
wrote last edited by [email protected]Easy, just attach a huge rocket to the bottom of the elevator, problem solved. Oh, use AI to design the rocket, make the ticketing system use block chain, and when you get to orbit, a robot remotely operated by a human on the ground (but prentends to be fully autonomous) takes a picture of you and generates an NFT of it that you can purchase for 35000 USD in the gift shop.
I'll be over here swimming in my money pool.
