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China Going Up and Coming Down
SoCalChris writes "The BBC writes that China has just completed the world's highest railroad, climbing to 16,640 feet (5,072 meters) above sea level. The cars will be sealed to help passengers cope with the pressure changes from the altitude. The line is expected to begin carrying passengers next year." This news comes at the same time that their Chinese taikonauts return from their spaceflight after just 115 hours in orbit.
SoCalChris writes "The BBC writes that China has just completed the world's highest railroad, climbing to 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*5*13 feet (2*2*2*2*317 meters) above sea level. The cars will be sealed to help passengers cope with the pressure changes from the altitude. The line is expected to begin carrying passengers next year." This news comes at the same time that their Chinese taikonauts return from their spaceflight after just 5*23 hours in orbit.
World biggest roller coaster?
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You missed the link to the chicks http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/15/conte nt_3618725.htm at the bottom of the page.
I actually rode on the Central Rail Line in Peru which was the former highest. Now I am going to have to go to China to ride this thing.
DAMN.
I will say the Peruvian one seems still a bit more challenging - no wussy sealed cars. You get to experience altitude sickness in all its glory.
Ooops, the last 4 pictures are really fakes, but the Chineses are too lazy to remove the word 'mo2ni3', which meanings "simulated photoes", from these pictures' titles. otherwise, some stupid slashdot readers may think these pictures are for real.
**grin**
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[U.S.-centric ignorance]30 degree heat? Wouldn't those poor people be hypothermic and not hot?[/U.S.-centric ignorance]
I understand that in the early 1940's Germany had a pretty good rail system and was making remarkable progress with rocketry. Can't wait for the Slashdot retrospective on that.
Oh! Excuse me, have I triggered Godwin's Law?
[Insert pithy quote here]
When the conductor opened the pressurized train car door for the first time in Tibet, the pasengers were heard to exclaim, "This place really sucks!" as they blew out the door.
Same can be said of the United Stated of America.
it _IS_ wrong that their spending billions on developing a space program with the amount of poverty there...
it _IS_ wrong what they have done, and continue to do to the iraqi people, etc...
FUCK YEAH!!!
So you have to convert from centipedes to fairyheights.
Let's see, 30 centipedes, multiply by 666, dance naked around the altar, carry the one, sacrifice the virgin, run the units program, type "30C<CR>F<CR>", and you get, uh, "conformability error", which is pretty damn hot I guess.
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It does, you hypocrite.
>The name of the game is the conquest of space and unmanned just doesn't get it done.
Yeah you're right, we need big burly space marines to beat all that vacuum into submission.
Maybe U.S. manufacturing workers who have been canned because their factories were outsourced can be a source of cheap labor for building the railroad. They can settle in China and become a vibrant minority, opening up 'american' restaurants on every corner. I can see it now: General Franks' Chicken.
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Errr , sorry , you're going to have to explain that punchline. Don't get it.
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