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China To Connect Its High-Speed Rail To Europe
MikeChino sends in this excerpt from Inhabitat: "China already has the most advanced and extensive high-speed rail lines in the world, and soon that network will be connected all the way to Europe and the UK. With initial negotiations and surveys already complete, China is now making plans to connect its HSR line through 17 other countries in Asia and Eastern Europe in order to connect to the existing infrastructure in the EU. Additional rail lines will also be built into South East Asia as well as Russia, in what will likely become the largest infrastructure project in history." They hope to get it done within 10 years, with China providing the financing in exchange for raw materials, in some cases.
Hope the passengers don't mind getting blowed up by terrorists.
Death by snu-snu? I wouldn't mind being "blowed" by an attractive terrorist.
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Really? The rest of the world sees the USA as
I somehow find that hard to believe.
Well, for one thing, I don't see how they're going to connect the Chinese railways with the European ones.
I heard that the Chinese rails go side-to-side instead of up and down.
Yep, that's what I heard.
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We'll take your post into account when we build our next generation train link from India to Australia.
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The US isn't all that bad.
Come on, they also make a lot of good stuff along with all that rubbish.
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"Trains are safer than ships on the open ocean."
Sorry, had to do it...all trains are unsafe on the open ocean while ships are at least built for it.
I keep seeing this argument, and it's absolutely ludicrous. Guess who France's number one trading partner was before 1941? You may have heard of that country's leader. He's invoked here a lot on Slashdot.
Mike Godwin?