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China Going Up and Coming Down

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the high-flying-every-way-you-look dept.

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.

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  1. OT[Re:First Prime Factorization Post] by zobier · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Just curious, did you create the throwaway account 2roll4life7 (900131) before creating 2*2*3*75011 (900132)?, Couldn't you just peek for the latest ID (923669 at time of writing)?

    BTW: why don't they use some kind of limit clause on those queries? It seems they load the entire table and then loop forward to the starteth row!?

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