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- Chairboy, on 01/08/2009, -0/+12Calling this rocket powered is like calling the Volkswagen Beetle 'Jet Powered' because someone put a jet engine on one once. There was one test with a rocket engine in 1966, the vast majority of the work had this powered by a low bypass turbine and there were tests with turboprop engines.
Pratt & Witney JT-12 != Rocket. - pjosemroy, on 01/08/2009, -1/+10Considering the enormity of expenditure and execution time, it is most unlikely feasible. Moreover, today's aviation fuel would not be the same two decades later.
- staeiou, on 01/08/2009, -1/+8The problem with high-speed trains is that you either have to build new tracks exclusively for them or upgrade most trains in the system to high-speed. You can't just drop a high-speed train onto a track used by thousands of low-speed freight and passenger trains. If you do, you have situations where a high-speed train ends up going at 60mph because a low-speed train is on the same track ahead of it. This is the problem with the DC-NYC-Boston high-speed Acela - the train can go over 200mph on a dedicated track, but it has to share it with existing lines, making the average speed 84mph. The reason the French and Japanese high-speed trains can travel so fast is not just the locomotive engines, but the dedicated tracks.
- gearhead364, on 01/08/2009, -0/+6Thank you, I hate the fact that people throw labels for the wow factor, they could have just stated "Jet Powered" and been correct.
- dagr8tim, on 01/08/2009, -0/+6Wait...if the lead engineer died in 1975, but continued to be the lead until 1977. Maybe, just maybe, that's why the project failed.
- ardembiniwoot, on 01/08/2009, -1/+7I don't even have a car...
- FLUX, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4How did this get to the front page ?
and it is a jet not a rocket - SamSks, on 01/08/2009, -0/+3Pft! Here in Georgia - that's US of A! - we've been doing this for a long time.
Supplies:
CSX stolen box car
Rocket fuel
iron pipe
several cases of Budweiser Beer.
The last hero amateur scientist who did this said this before he died and will be remembered for his thoughts: "Hey, watch this!" - Ranjit13, on 01/08/2009, -0/+3Am I the only one that read the title and imagined this?
http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=snapshot2 ... - falstaff, on 01/08/2009, -0/+3This was invented by Dr. Emmit Brown, presumably sometime in the late 1860's.
- Number23, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2It looks like something out of Metal Gear Solid 3.
- armakaryk, on 01/08/2009, -1/+3or it means the french have zombie scientists! who knows what other technological terrors they're hiding!
- 1ncu3us, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1Looks like the Tim Burton batmobile from the front.. the inspiration?
- OneRottenTomato, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1Give it some wings, an R2 unit and it just may look like it can take on a death star.
- ileftfark, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1I hear those things are awfully loud...
- ihavebeenseen, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1Red Oktober standing by
- Mohonri, on 01/08/2009, -1/+2Besides that, trains suffer from the same hub-and-spoke vs. point-to-point issue as airplanes. In order to be reasonably efficient, you have to take a relatively large number of people on-board. And once you have a large number of people on-board, you're almost certain to have people with different destinations. Which means the passengers will have to change trains at some point.
What it comes down to is this: trains face most of the disadvantages of planes (schedule constraints, baggage limits, expense, have to rent a car at your destination) plus the main disadvantage of a car (it's a slow way to get across the country). Sure, there are some benefits--trains are a lot more comfortable and efficient than planes and automobiles--but the drawbacks are way too large.
If there was a high-speed train that cost half as much as an airplane to get to a destination, I'd take it, even if it took twice as long to get there. - jslondon85, on 01/08/2009, -1/+2The concept seems a bit out there but the lead engineer must have been really committed to the concept... especially since he kept working on it two years after he died.
Where would we be without the work ethic of the zombie engineers? - trev0006, on 02/07/2009, -0/+1Buck Rogers called and he wants his vehicle back, That is the most crude futuristic vehicle I have ever seen. http://www.dpccars.com/
- n3mi5y5, on 01/08/2009, -1/+2I saw this years ago on Brisco County Jr.... "Who are you???" "Brisco County Ma'am." "Is that where you're from??" "No Ma'am. that's who I am."
- flipmeat, on 01/09/2009, -0/+1If I hit the lottery, one of these babies is going from the house to the mailbox and back.
- tdogg241, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1Now they just need to paint some flames on it.
- zadadka, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1Great Scott, we can already do 88mph......!!!
- theguesser10, on 01/09/2009, -0/+1... didn't the video at the bottom just say it was powered by a jet engine and then a rocket engine?
- theguesser10, on 01/09/2009, -0/+1You can just go to a train station, buy a ticket, and get on... takes a little longer at an airport
- tdogg241, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1BTTF took place in 1885, so it couldn't have been the late 1860s. Moran.
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1Knock yourself out -
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=flying ... - Zubata, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1Sounds cool but I wouldn't want the tracks near my back yard.
- greenslash, on 01/09/2009, -0/+0It has already been done in the US. 183 mph. http://gothamist.com/2008/05/28/rocket_train.php
- cyrusuncc, on 01/08/2009, -1/+1I just want my flying car.. It was my understanding that I could get one 9 years ago!
- MrViklund, on 01/08/2009, -3/+1I chose for myself. I don't let the articles poster chose for me. NO. I DON'T WANT ONE!
Buried again. Yea, I can do that. - MrViklund, on 01/08/2009, -9/+1No I don't want one. Buried.
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