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Yes. For example, the Eurostar service uses the "Chunnel." A tunnel built under the English channel. I rode on it, it's amazingly smooth, albeit it a little eerie in the dark knowing you're under water. http://www.raileurope.com/blog...

That sounds like fun. I was thinking to take England -> Italy trip one of these years.

Yes. For example, the Eurostar service uses the "Chunnel." A tunnel built under the English channel. I rode on it, it's amazingly smooth, albeit it a little eerie in the dark knowing you're under water. http://www.raileurope.com/blog...

I would say it would be against the Fourth Amendment as I would say it is an unreasonable search

Oh, but "reasonable" is a term with such a wide interpretation, you drive a train through it — sideways...

Just ask a European what they think privacy is and you will see that it is much more that just the stuff you do at home when you are alone. It inclused everything you do and what defines you as a person. That is the startingpoint.

Ah, yes, the famous "why can't we be more like Europe" whine.

Well, you can not board a train anonymously in Europe either — so, in that regard, we are "like Europe" already. Or do you believe, European police don't have access to the rail passengers?.. Of course, they do — and it does not even cause an outrage, unlike here...

Might wanna take your own advice about consulting a map, or more specifically, a timetable. You end up looking like a complete retard when you're arrogant and insulting about something which you're completely wrong about.

The Switzerland-Italy-Germany rail service is Cisalpino. While the minimum distance between Germany and Italy thru Switzerland may be 200 km, that's not a choice offered. Furthermore, some sample travel times: Milan - Zurich: 3 hours, 38 minutes, Milan - Basel: 4 hours, 26 minutes, even when halved, are more than double 45 minutes. High-speed rail is public transport by rail at a speed over 200 km/h (125 mph). Typically high-speed trains travel at top service speeds of between 250 km/h (150 mph) to 300 km/h (180 mph). So, your errors would be: assuming that it'll be going at an average of 300km/h, neglecting the fact that there is no express, and an ad homiem attack on Americans. Since you didn't know about Cisalpino, all evidence points to you just making your friend's commute up unless you can provide a link to a timetable.

How's it feel to get schooled by an oh so ignorant American?

Might wanna take your own advice about consulting a map, or more specifically, a timetable. You end up looking like a complete retard when you're arrogant and insulting about something which you're completely wrong about.

The Switzerland-Italy-Germany rail service is Cisalpino. While the minimum distance between Germany and Italy thru Switzerland may be 200 km, that's not a choice offered. Furthermore, some sample travel times: Milan - Zurich: 3 hours, 38 minutes, Milan - Basel: 4 hours, 26 minutes, even when halved, are more than double 45 minutes. High-speed rail is public transport by rail at a speed over 200 km/h (125 mph). Typically high-speed trains travel at top service speeds of between 250 km/h (150 mph) to 300 km/h (180 mph). So, your errors would be: assuming that it'll be going at an average of 300km/h, neglecting the fact that there is no express, and an ad homiem attack on Americans. Since you didn't know about Cisalpino, all evidence points to you just making your friend's commute up unless you can provide a link to a timetable.

How's it feel to get schooled by an oh so ignorant American?

Yeah, what ever. Does this mean Europe is more united than the Uncooperative States of America?

Everything is state of the art, trains are rarely delayed, and they enter the city centre as opposed to off-city airports.

Service is expanding, new trains are purchased, there's a high attention to design and usability and connections are good. For travels in between major cities in Denmark, it's simply hard to find arguments for cars.

The Channel Tunnel: UK - continental Europe, built in 1994, 37.5 kilometer submarine
The Seikan Tunnel: Japan, Hokkaido - Honshu, built in 1988, 23.3 kilometer submarine

Don't forget about the Channel Tunnel, that was a pretty big project between the French and English.

Here are some more that I thought of:

The most tempting tech I saw was an open access panel, revealing a ton of CAT-5, in the floor of Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. To paraphrase Homer Simpson: Hmmmmmm..... networked slot machines... I really would like to know what OS they run. :-)

The USAF Museum has TONS of kick ass tech.

Someone else mentioned walking the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The Grand St Bernard and Chunnel tunnels are cool.

The Roman Coloseum is very impressive, especially since you can now walk inside of it!

Some way early tech: Stonehenge.

There's an awesome museum full of armor in Innsbruck, but I don't know its name.

Oetzi has some cool old tech too (he looks like shiny beef jerky).

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