The two main causes of people missing limbs are cars & wars which are fought for dead dinosaur fuel for cars, which are a transportation medium meant for speed over safety, and super inefficient, with a very low payload( passengers & cargo )/vehicle ratio. Most of the energy a car uses is used to haul itself, at high speed, so heavy armor is necessary.
End cars. End wars. End missing limbs.
Oil things must pass.
End cities.
Bicycles /w bamboo truss frames & solar batteries. 🌻
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Imagine electric Zeppelins that you could ride your electric bike/trike to, stow it, and sit in a comfy cabin for tea/coffee/snacks/reading/games/socializing or find a cabin for a nap/quickie ( kilometer high club ;-). Slow, luxurious travel, like the airship the Doctors Jones almost escaped Germany in.
No grid. No power lines. No electric fire hazard. No cyber intrusion to cause cascading grid failures. Distributed solar charging stations. Swappable batteries.
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Leave the roads car free and care free. Open to pedestrians, electric vehicles and skaters. Rip concrete and wires out of the Earth. Less concrete, glass and metal. ( More Concrete Blonde, Philip Glass, and Metal 💀 )
People are not isolated and whizzing by at high speed to buy junk. There are no brands. Everything is hand made with care, to last. No industrial production. Everything is one of a kind. Microbrew. Earth friendly. Linux robots to do the farming.
@purrperl no, we're turning the freeways into railways.
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No poles, no overhead wires, no excuses for wild fires, no land grabs for capitalist's desires.
@purrperl we will take the no wires into consideration. For the time being, that is one of the more efficient ways to drive trains.
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I mean, rip out these kind of wooden poles and dangling wires, which are a fire hazard, honestly.
First photo in this video I made here in Big Island, Hawai'i:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/asWwAxyCvWEioxTV8
@purrperl I feel the pain, and I agree it is a fire-hazard, however underground lines are difficult in areas where temperatures drop below 20F regularly.
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I guess I was thinking of Hawai'i specifically, since we suffered the Maui wildfires. imho, calculated arson & land grab by shady capitalists who get to look good while moving the locals off the land for a pittance.
Wild fires are less common in colder regions than Hawai'i, which has a lot of grassy lands.
@purrperl I will be sure to task local Hawai'ian people to examine the situation in Hawai'i, and address concerns such as wild-fires when replacing the limited road system with a rail system.
I am most certainly not an expert on conditions there.
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I had proposed a convoy based monorail system.
You have a bike/trike which is electric, and runs on swappable solar batteries.
You drive it to the monorail station.
It has built-in hitches, front & back.
It enters a monorail station and becomes part of queue of other vehicles.
When a monorail comes by, the queue is shunted in.
Disembarking vehicles are shunted out.
The monorail includes passenger only cars.
At your destination, you can drive off autonomously.
@purrperl why a bike and not a bus? Individual transportation is a tarpit of failure.
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This gives you both, convoy mode and free driving mode.
In convoy mode, the vehicle moves extra fast, but there are no collisions because the road is not shared. Just one convoy moving along at maximum speed.
@purrperl yes, but... why not load the bike onto a vehicle that can travel at a speed 2x or faster and safer than the bike?
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Yep. That's a possibility. Instead of clunky queuing and dequeuing, the vehicles just drive into a special car. The passengers can get out and hang around the snack bar etc. Good idea!
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Here in Big Island, there's a two lane road that goes around the edge of the whole island. One lane each way. When a bus stops at a stop, the whole traffic stops till it can load/unload and move again.
A hybrid monorail + electric bike transport could make this go smoothly.
@purrperl maybe the problem is that there is traffic to stop, and that should be replaced with rails that have a schedule.
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The road is shared by cars, buses, bikes, scooters, etc.
It could be reduced to just monorail, bikes, and scooters. Bikes and scooters go in the monorail. Never any traffic jams or collisions.
@purrperl OK...
As Prime Minister, I will work to restrict cars, bikes, scooters, and busses from those roads so the roads can be replaced with rails that have room for bikes.
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As Queen, I shall ensure that you have the mandate to implement this glorious plan. 😃
@purrperl if you are declaring yourself Queen, we will have to figure out how to share the responsibility of leadership. I am not immediately opposed, as I could use some help.
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A girl I was dating asked to be treated like a princess, so I said, "I outrank you honey. I am Queen."
I am joking of course. I want to be the pothead mage, witch doctor, medium of the divine, sayer of prophecy, crazy old man who lives in the woods and disappears in the Ocean in his boat to dive with the whales for days on end.
@purrperl I am looking for a princess, what's her type? Maybe we should meet.
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Oh, I "sis zoned" her, which an extreme form of "friend zoning" practiced in India. She's brilliant, and pretty, funny, and very, very, very finicky. I had to end it after hanging on too long. She has no type. She has a brilliant autistic son, and is just looking for quasi-platonic male attention without any intentions of going anywhere. Too Indian for this Americanized kid.
@purrperl I'm all for the sis-zone or friend-zone. I don't need things to go anywhere.
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Named one of the top 10 educators in India, a nation of 1.5 Billion.
As I said brilliant. Sometimes, you can be too like someone, background-wise to have the spark. My values are more with the American chicks ( which is a wide range ).
@purrperl she sounds like someone I would definitely enjoy having a cup of tea with.
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Oh, absolutely. We always laughed so hard during our coffee dates. Rare to meet someone who is intellectually at your level, and into the same stuff, design, art, photography, cooking, travel, etc.
@purrperl I hope she is not at my level. I am seeking individuals far beyond my level.
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I don't know if there's a linear dimensions of levels. We are all multidimensional and unique. Not equal, and not the same. Same same, but different.
I can come away with a lot of meaning just playing with a child or a pet, just recognizing that they are not any less than I.
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