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Pipeline Mass Transit?
pipingguy writes "'Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) is a new kind of transportation system that requires less than two percent of the energy of current transportation methods. It is also much safer, and can be faster. [...] Anyone can visualize 2 tubes (one for each direction) along a travel route. Air is permanently removed from the tubes; so travel takes place without friction. Pressurized passenger capsules (like a 2 - 8 person airplane cabin), travel in the tubes on thin steel wheels or on nearly frictionless Maglev. Airlocks allow access without admitting air to the tubes. Linear motors (as used on new rollercoasters) accelerate the capsules. During most of the trip the capsules coast; using no power. When the capsules slow down, linear generators recover most of the electrical energy used to accelerate the capsules.' Some CG images and drawings here, the FAQ is here." MSNBC had an article on monorails a few days ago. Don't bother making Simpsons jokes, the article has them covered already.
The New York train was pulled along by a pressure differance between the front and back of the train with atmospheric pressure in the back. This new train has a vacuum both in front and back of the train and uses linear motors for propulsion.
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
You claim the right to pollute the environment?
You refuse mass-transit because there are some corrupt corporations? And, is there less corruption in the car industrie? The oil industrie? Ridiculous, isn't it?
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We can barely dig a little tunnel under the English Channel, and we're seriously proposing vacuum tubes?
In all fairness, digging the English Channel tunnel wasn't really a "barely" thing. Once the right people got their heads together on it, it was a logistical effort on a scale not often seen, but technically it was kind of a breeze.
Of course, it's easy for me to say it. I didn't have to dig any of it myself.
I write in my journal
So we get a hole in the tube and we get a real fast blow job then we die. Sorry ladies you get swollen labs and nips. ..(sigh) .. As seen on TV.
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Damm and if I farted no one in the tube would hear it
So I guess loud speaker to announce arrivals would not happen either.
Hey you could have your luggage outside in the tube and it would get smaller cause the air gets sucked out
Sponsored by Electrolux no doubt.
we could call it SUCK
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We could put in a bunch of neon and have great light show on the trip..
I can see it now
Hey mister what's this plug do
POP..
Great work son you just sucked 25 people back to NYC.
Now for the emergency speach by the crew.
Welcome to invitro ladies and gentlemen.
In the event of a emergency, you are in deep excrement. We have no friction type braking as there is no friction . We have no radio cause it don't travel so good in a vacuum.
But we do have the MS low orbit satelite system to tell us where we are.
So in case of emergency please reboot your seat.
If you get a blue screen of death . You are screwed the reason is
The explanation of charge separation, nuclear rotation, toroid formation (electricity/current/space/time/matter), also the 45-degree tilting of the rotational axis of atomic and celestial bodies with respect to the magnetic axis, the subatomic particles (the items of the substructure which are relationships or events or functions, not actual "particles"), the quantum substructure of matter itself, as well as the relationships among, magnetism, gravity, mind, and consciousness, also time and space or electricity [matter], and especially the FIVE (not four) basic forces of nature.
Because this nut case said so
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Anyone want to take stab at teaching dude html ??
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