mekka okereke Jan 7, 2023

Shout out to everyone at CES right now, seeing first hand how ridiculous the Boring company Hyperloop tunnel is.

Go to Los Reyes restaurant in the Sunnydale neighborhood of San Francisco. Order some delicious food. I recommend Pupusas! 👌🏿 Wait a few hours. Use their restroom. Flush. Wash your hands!

You are now using a much better engineered tunnel, built by the same boring machine!

He bought a second hand sewer tunneling robot and built that nonsense.

Show threadmekka okereke Jan 7, 2023

You know the rules. Every time someone says "Hyperloop" I bring up the Shanghai Maglev.

https://youtu.be/R_d4D5_4ovA

EU folk aren't impressed by the Shanghai Maglev but for US folk I assure you that this footage is not sped up, and that is not a low flying aircraft. Trains really do run that fast outside of the US and have for some time.

We could be SF to LA in comfort in an hour and a half, but we're playing. Philly to NYC in 30 minutes, but we prefer traffic.

Shanghai Maglev @ 431km/h (268mph) // World's fastest train!

YouTube
Show threadcateJan 7, 2023
@mekkaokereke haha it’s true, I went on it when I spent a summer in Shanghai and it was like oh nice, this is like the train system across France but… it only goes to one place 😆 (still cool though)
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@cate @mekkaokereke > but… it only goes to one place

… China has 25,000 miles of high-speed rail, though? It’s not quite as fast as the maglev, but it’s plenty fast as is.

Show threadcateJan 7, 2023
@steve @mekkaokereke yeah there are other trains but the maglev is a particular thing? I rode it ages ago (well over 10 years) but iirc you went to a special maglev station and then could go to the airport. It was ~equivalent to the Heathrow express experience, very nice if you want to get to paddington but otherwise better to take regular transit.
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@cate @mekkaokereke yeah, the maglev is totally separate from the rest of the rail network.
Jan 7, 2023 at 11:38pmWeb
Show threadI Can't Believe It's Not Zero!Jan 7, 2023
@cate @mekkaokereke (but the actual high speed rail network is _also_ nice and way more complete than France, or anywhere else in Europe.)