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Originally Posted by milomilo
It's a good video, more educational and worth time than arguing on here.
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Agreed. But sometimes I am bored.
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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
He is not here to learn. He's here to get his ego stroked and just wants us to agree that he's right with whatever he says. Must be a required trait for believing in the viability of Hyperloop.....
The rest of you should watch the second video too. The look back on the timeline really shows you how the scam runs with constantly moving goalposts. The comparison with Theranos is apt and hilarious. I hadn't thought of that before.
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I noticed that comparison. I would say the better one would be when Bill Gates said that the most storage we would need is a 3.5 floppy. See, we think that something this huge is all we ever will need, and then, something more huge comes out. 1TB used to be massive. Now I have one in my computer and wondering if I can get a 2TB in it.
Steam was king. Then they found something better. Diesel electric. But, then they found they could get rid of the engine and just put wires above or below the tracks to reduce weight.
Wheels were king. Now we have been seeing that magnetism could be the way of the future.
That is why I am not going to laugh at the hyperloop. Right now it won't be cheaper. The first tickets on one, if it ever gets going for regular service will not be cheap either. But neither was plane travel. To ignore this progression means you do not understand economies of scale.
Why is a train ticket so cheap between Montreal and Toronto? It is because that route has been saturated such that the lower price is what it costs to operate. The Canadian should be about half the price, if not even less if we just put the same fare per distance on it. But it is not that simple.
I keep suggesting to get reliable regular trains on something such as Edmonton-Calgary. Everyone shoots it down due to speed. Well, here we have something that would potentially be faster than a flight, and it is shot down even more harder.
I have said it before, and I'll say it again. - The transcontinental rail line across Canada could never be built today. There is too much bickering about everything but what actually matters. How much does that road in front of your home cost to maintain? How much does the highway cost to plow it when a storm hits. Everything has a cost, yet we will bicker at the price.
I really want to talk about how to best serve the most Canadians with out national rail carrier. The only answer is "we can't do it". When a new idea from elsewhere comes on here, I look at it and decide whether I would want my tax dollars spent on it. Most things, I say why not. Really, if you are employing Canadians, and trying to do something, and it has some basis in reality, then why not? Many things have failed, but have at least been tried.
I asked our resident aerospace engineer about the plane Boeing messed up royally. The 737 Max. You might have heard of the crashes and near crashes of it. It is proof that engineers are not infallible. It is also proof that trying to do things on the cheap, like how this aircraft was designed, is not always the best way to go.
I then pointed out the Avro Arrow. An aircraft that has been argued to still not been matched in it's class. In this day in age, it would not be needed, but still, it was the height of Canadian aerospace engineering. The engineers who built it moved to the USA. Why? Because Canada canceled the program.
The LIM is a Canadian design. In Toronto it is mocked. In Vancouver, it is the backbone of their system. It makes up most of the longest RT system in Canada. It is also the longest automated system in the world.
So, excuse me if I am not going to waste my time on videos that are just there to mock new, unproven technology. If this was 100 years ago, there would be videos mocking the aeroplane. If this was 60 years ago, there would be videos mocking Diesel electric trains. If this was 200 years ago, there would be videos mocking something new called a train.
People fear new things. People fear changes. People have a hard time to admit their mistakes. Via had no chose but to cut lines in the early 1990s. they did not do it due to the ones that were the least profitable. I proved that with numbers provided by a nobody at Via who no longer posts that kind of stuff. He personally attacked me in a Facebook group. He is still in the group, but has since learned that I am not alone in my desires to bring back some of the lines that we cut 30 years ago.
I am a power engineer. I know, it pisses every engineer out there that we can call ourselves engineers and yet never have to be part of the professional engineers. No, I did not do a university degree, but my knowledge and understanding of engineering is close to a Mechanical Engineer. My job is to make sure that pressure vessel does not blow up. I could legally right now go and operate a steam locomotive, regardless of it's rating. So, when someone mocks my knowledge and understanding of engineering and physics, I take it personally.
I know I do not know enough about Via and why it does what it does, but the difference between me and others here is that I want to learn.
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Originally Posted by jmt18325
Guys, I really want to talk about trains here.
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Me too.
Me too.
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