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 threadfreeformz 🏳️‍🌈Jan 7, 2023
@mekkaokereke IMO we should have a high speed train from Vancouver, BC all the way to Los Angeles by now. With stops in (at least) Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; Redding, CA; San Francisco, CA; Bakersfield, CA; & Los Angeles, CA. But no we can’t have nice things in the USA.
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@freeformz @mekkaokereke I used to work in rail & the biggest problem US passenger rail has is the stubborn refusal by politicians to nationalize ROW & tracks now owned by private cargo rail corps, & refusal by individual states to allow passenger traffic through. Example of latter: old coal rail lines ran from NYC to Pittsburgh & could be used for passengers now, but NJ has flatly refused to allow it. Why? Well, if you could ..
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Show threadla bibliotequetressJan 8, 2023
@freeformz @mekkaokereke .. commute as easily from the PA countryside to NYC, why would you live in the NJ suburb quagmire? There's an extent ROW from Scranton to NYC that would be a 1.5 hour commute at best but its been shot down repeatedly