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Riding the World's Fastest Train @ 500 kph

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-it-a-train-or-a-low-flying-plane dept.

angkor writes "Riding the world's fastest train @ 500 kph - some lucky people got a chance to ride on this experimental train. The Japan Times has the story." I like the part where the wheels retract as it starts picking up speed, with the train floating 10cm over the tracks. If only the California high-speed rail system was up and running.

6 of 555 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Please help poor little Timmy! by gazbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here, I post this at +2 to give you 3 karma. Godbless you Timmah.

  2. Wow, after 9/11 someone marked this as a troll! by jerryasher · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good moderation here tonight. Yet another monorail quip from the Simpsons gets modded to 4, funny, and my post, a post that referenced the freaking journal of homeland security and how that journal feels about mass transit and terrorism gets modded as a troll.

    Hey, even in Japan with the Aum Shinrikyo killing 5 in the subways, I bet they wonder about terrorism and maglev trains.

    That's okay moderators, moderate the posts you want to see, not the posts that inform.

  3. hexa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Repeated message:


    I'm informing you in this message that your use of decimal is disturbing to geeks. I think it likely that you do not know what radices mean, or else you would be using hexadecimal. Read about hexadecimal at intuitor and repost your comment using hexadecimal. You may use "0x" as a prefix or "h" as a suffix for the numbers. Intelligent people despise decimal--so try to show some intelligence. If you are too stupid to understand radices, then admit so. Please reply to this--use the given subject so I can find it. Please reply.

    Personalized message:


    How many minutes? How many miles?

  4. Just keep Californians out of the mid-west! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If we build trains I hope they don't bring San Francisco people into the midwest. I just visited CA for the first time and they can stay there!

  5. MOD PARENT DOWN!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Attention Moderators! The parent post does contain the words "The Simpsons", but it's NOT A REAL "The Simpsons" reference! Don't be fooled, no Simpsons reference = MOD DOWN!

    DON'T HAVE A COW, MAN!

  6. sounds cool by rocket97 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but can you install Linux on it?

    --
    "The two most abundant elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." -Harlan Ellison