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Magnetic Levitating Trains Get Go-Ahead In Japan
An anonymous reader writes "They've been on the drawing board for 40 years but the politicos have finally approved routes for the 500kph maglev trains to replace bullet trains." I wonder if they'll let me test out maglev rollerblades on the track.
I hope you can afford automated laser defense systems along the whole line by that time too, because something like that would be an awesome target for a terrorist attack. Even if you didn't kill anyone, just damaging the lines would cost a whole lot of money in repairs and inconvenience a lot of people.
I don't think the US government can risk anything like this while their "war on terror" is still in effect. Canada or Russia maybe could do it if they can free up budget for it - not so many people seem to hate them (okay some little countries around Russia hate it, but they haven't shown as much initiative as Al Qaeda).
which is totally what she said
"...approved routes for the 500kph maglev trains..."
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What the hell kind of unit is kph? kilos per hour? What is that supposed to mean? I appreciate trying to use SI units, but this is just silly. How hard is it to do km h[sup]-1[/sup]?
(obviously make the [sup] bit an HTML tag.
Air traffic is far more reliable the train. Faster and usually cheaper, to.
For passengers, cargo is a different matter.
As far as the US is concerned, People wouldn't tolerate what it took to build the train system any more.
You know, slaves, stealing of whole towns, killing people in the way.
Of course it is doable, but the expense for a 4000 mile mag train would be tremendous.
Rail is a dead end for passengers in the US.
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