America is Fucked
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- kingsteven3
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Close your eyes and try to imagine how a sane and obviously good decision like Just import the TGV and run it between the big American cities instead of spending years and fortunes inventing maglev from scratch for no reason could get made in these United States. Imagine who’d make it, and what their goals would be, and where the money would come from. It simply can’t get made on those terms. It can’t get made at all. No level of American society even has a mechanism for that anymore. If it doesn’t require a messianic assbrain with a Steve Jobs cosplay fantasy pitching some sleepy billionaire or venture capital firm on the possibility of cornering the market on a brand-new technology that will conquer the world, then it will not get done. If it merely delivers a profound benefit to the common good rather than the promise of extravagant enrichment to a shrinking class of hyper-powered parasites, then it simply cannot exist.
- Hyperloop's a GREAT concept.
For cargo and packages. Not people.
At least, not until Boring can offer continental-scale tunnels ...Nairn - ... for a price per mile in line with motorway development. Which is to say, not any time soon, probably.Nairn
- This sort of thing's the direction we should be starting, imo
https://www.theengin…Nairn - Also, I thought the problem with high speed rail in America was less to do with tech or sheer will, rather land purchase costs?Nairn
- Lol.PhanLo
- Hyperboleutopian
- Hyperloop's a GREAT concept.