A Canadian company has unveiled plans for a fully electric train-style vehicle which could travel at 1,000 kilometers per hour and, it claims, would cost less than a plane ticket to travel on.
Why would they use a tried and true technology that has worked ceaselessly for two centuries when they can buy the rights to a technology that does not exist and will never work?
i think it's a tech concept that's very appealing to the kind of omni-engineer who thinks expertise in one field qualifies him to solve problems in every field. he learns some basic physics, notices that very little energy is lost when a vehicle is propelled through an idealized frictionless vacuum, and decides that the solution to efficient transport is to simply create a frictionless vacuum, because surely once that is figured out, there'll be no glaring externalities to worry about.
A train is a clusterfuck of eminent domain disputes and production delays with no tangible benefits until well after you've left office.
A gadgetbahn shows that you're visionary and forward-thinking, and will be so tied up in the proof of concept phase that you'll probably be out of there before the eminent domain disputes start.
Why would they use a tried and true technology that has worked ceaselessly for two centuries when they can buy the rights to a technology that does not exist and will never work?
i think it's a tech concept that's very appealing to the kind of omni-engineer who thinks expertise in one field qualifies him to solve problems in every field. he learns some basic physics, notices that very little energy is lost when a vehicle is propelled through an idealized frictionless vacuum, and decides that the solution to efficient transport is to simply create a frictionless vacuum, because surely once that is figured out, there'll be no glaring externalities to worry about.
when're we finally gonna get the perfectly spherical mass transit
The future is a human hamsterball in a vacuum tube.
get an american passenger for a perfectly spherical ass transit :kelly:
You gotta be extremely fit to have a spherical ass actually
No see the person is spherical and, as an american, is an ass
A train is a clusterfuck of eminent domain disputes and production delays with no tangible benefits until well after you've left office.
A gadgetbahn shows that you're visionary and forward-thinking, and will be so tied up in the proof of concept phase that you'll probably be out of there before the eminent domain disputes start.