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- Johnbrad34, on 01/21/2008, -5/+69Good. Now all we have to do is connect this super train to space, board Tom Cruise and send him home.
- tarquell, on 01/21/2008, -1/+29KPM?
- shaka776, on 01/21/2008, -3/+30Everybody now:
"Monorail!" - 44Bigs, on 01/21/2008, -2/+28It will be smashed to pieces, as with a regular train :)
- cplusplus, on 01/21/2008, -1/+25The world needs more fast trains like this.
- meiratamire, on 01/21/2008, -6/+27Well this is just great...This thing is so fast that my in-laws will now visit twice as often...please don't bring this to the States.
- uncrase, on 01/21/2008, -0/+20Dude, what are you planning? :-)
- altgeeky1, on 01/21/2008, -1/+17Don't worry, I'm sure Exxon would fight this to the death, as their allies in Congress have done already to basic Amtrak.
Not that they would have to try very hard... America is now sufficiently suburbanized that ANY intercity train route would travel through 'densely populated' areas and thus be limited to 60mph by law.
I live north of Boston, Mass... on two occasions Montreal has approached Boston and New York about a shared-cost high speed rail, and basically they did not even get a courtesy response.
While high speed rail was invented in the US, you have NO NEED to worry about it coming to the US anytime soon. - arturoayasan, on 01/21/2008, -0/+12The post says KPM, which would be kilometers per minute.... now that would be just insane fast.
- JavertHolmes, on 01/21/2008, -5/+17It stands for kilometres per metre. To a "stationary" person standing on the Earth's surface, usually there are .001 kilometres in a metre, but as the speed of this train approaches the speed of light, due to time slowing down, it "compresses" spatially relative to our "stationary" perspective, at which point a ruler on the train would measure 574 kilometres on-train as one of our metres. This is a world record in terms of relative space-time compression.
- SlowOnTheUptake, on 01/21/2008, -0/+12KPH = kilometers per hour Miles per hour (mph) = .62 * kph, so for us non-metric types, the train travels at ~367 mph
- davewelsh79, on 01/21/2008, -0/+11In other words km/h or, as a layman might write it, KPH, but never KPM.
- wellyuk, on 01/21/2008, -0/+10I want to know what happens if there are leaves on the track. I know what happens in the UK.
- FelixdaaHack, on 01/21/2008, -2/+12Support the San Diego to San Francisco high-speed (220mph) rail initiative!
http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/ - castorjay, on 01/21/2008, -26/+35France.
Finding a faster way to escape for 200 years. - stevenvh, on 01/21/2008, -3/+11Great news! Or at least it was. On the 3rd of April, last year
- JavertHolmes, on 01/21/2008, -1/+9It's good to see the Ministry of Science posting on Digg.
- Janv1er, on 01/21/2008, -0/+8You is so smart !
Our engineers NEVER even thought of that ! - neil1492, on 01/21/2008, -0/+8Pretty amazing. I wish we had trains like that in the US.
- Hartrain, on 01/21/2008, -1/+9Since this train is electric, it depends on what they use to generate electricity. At any rate, its emissions are way below those of any jet plane.
- cybrguy, on 01/21/2008, -0/+8France is mostly Nuclear power, so its probably VERY cheap to operate.
- DesertFlyer, on 01/21/2008, -0/+8A wheeled train can be built for a fraction of the cost and still travel quite fast. Then you can also use existing lines with neighboring countries. Maglev is cool, but isn't right for every "high speed rail" situation.
- widman, on 01/21/2008, -0/+7Funny how many of the US diggers start making jokes and dismissing this great achievement. The kind of behaviour they accuse the French of having...
"A******, f*** yeah!" - Calculon, on 01/21/2008, -0/+7"Homer, I got some help..." "Is it Batman?" "No, it's a scientist!" "Batman's a scientist..."
- Ninnux, on 01/21/2008, -0/+7That's awesome. I dream of real bullet trains in America. In the northeast we have the Acela which is designed to go pretty fast (top speed about 190 mph). Unfortunately these speeds are never fully appreciated along the veritable cluster ***** that is the Philadelphia-New York corridor.
- belzoradon, on 01/21/2008, -1/+8anyone know what the fuel econ and emissions are? faster isnt always better
- thomashauk, on 01/21/2008, -0/+7Yes but this is used
Unlike maglevs. - cybrguy, on 01/21/2008, -0/+7People don't know what they are missing. If anyone managed to build modern high speed rail system between ANY two major cities then people would start demanding more. The Irony is that it makes SO much sense to do here in the US because of the greater distance between cities. In europe you only need that insane speed for express routes.
Who wouldn't want to be able to take 1 day trips from NY to Orlando, or Seattle to Vegas or LA for around $100. - Xynthesis, on 01/21/2008, -0/+7But Main Street's still all cracked and broken! Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!
- jabob, on 01/21/2008, -1/+8come on North America...
Where's our train system?
going down the *****, that's where. - inactive, on 01/21/2008, -0/+7Magnetic levitation vs conventional rail perhaps?
- thomashauk, on 01/21/2008, -1/+8France's electricity is all Nuclear
- swordedge, on 01/21/2008, -1/+8574.8 /(2.54 * 12 * 5280/ 100000) = 357.1641613 mph.
And when you add the fact that unlike planes, trains go downtown to downtown, far faster then planes for anything under about 500 miles. - unruled, on 01/21/2008, -0/+7damn, that ***** is awesome.. it would do amsterdam-paris in 1 hour!
they really need to get the dutch rail upgraded quick, ***** delays. - stupidcabbage, on 01/21/2008, -0/+6"It's almost as if the US government doesn't want nationwide commuter rail service!"
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Amtrak has to fight for scraps for subsidies and doesn't own its rail lines in many (most?) places. Compare with the level of subsidies paid out for road and air travel... - inactive, on 01/21/2008, -0/+6francophobes r so gonna bury this.
- cybrguy, on 01/21/2008, -0/+6Mag lev is very expensive for long distances, rail is cheap. I wish we had trains running at half of that speed or better along the coast lines of the US hitting all the major cities. Course the airlines wouldn't like that, because it would be faster to take the train from Seattle to LA than to fly.
- theguesser10, on 01/21/2008, -1/+7So um... that's 370 miles per hour, wow
- cybrguy, on 01/21/2008, -0/+6I would pay to go that fast in a train!!!
- Dested, on 01/21/2008, -0/+6Mono!
Do'h! - chripro125, on 01/21/2008, -0/+6In the November election, Californian Voters will vote on the selling $ 10 billion of bonds for high speed rail. The train will go from S.F to L.A. http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/whats_new/
- tgc1, on 01/21/2008, -1/+7Thats weak!
- tgc1, on 01/21/2008, -0/+6I think there is a metal brush (like a bbq scraper type deal) under the front leading wheels which brushes the debris free from the track. Just a hunch.
- wellyuk, on 01/21/2008, -1/+6Just in the US? Or everywhere else in the world?
- zephyr42, on 01/21/2008, -0/+5we're better at picking on poor countries and starting wars for no reason...
- mnchrist, on 01/21/2008, -3/+8Im starting to notice major improvements in different sectors of France's economy. They must be having govt deregulations and cuts in taxes for this to be happening. I think this was awesome I just wouldnt want to be on the train if it got in a crash. At any rate, I dont believe Im saying this but- Go France!
- BobaFettTDG, on 01/21/2008, -2/+7"I'm French! Why do you think I have this outRAGEOUS accent you silly king!"
- tybris, on 01/21/2008, -0/+5Reminds me of the 19th century people who believed they would explode when traveling over 50k/h.
- Ninnux, on 01/21/2008, -0/+5Possibly one of my coolest travel experiences was taking the Mag Lev train in Shanghai. The cars had a speedometer and at one point we were traveling over 400 kph. Of course, planes go faster, but being that close to the ground tricks your mind into believing you're going warp speed. The thing banked hard during turns. Amazing.
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