Recent content by bluemeansgo

This $8B was for one reason... and one reason only... to get people thinking and planning. When you wave a carrot everyone races. But there are only 3 medals to win. When the losers are announced, the prez then has the people to back him. Here, I'll write the statement ( To be read in Obama...

The Chinese are very good at examining craftsmanship and know what a good product is and a bad one. Why? They generally have a good idea of how they are manufactured. They have an eye for quality. Some of the "cheap cheap cheap" stuff that we get here wouldn't pass for snuff in China. It's...

Uhmmm... two words.. Mag. Lev.

The only way they'd have the fastest, is if they went with the ultraspeed project and ran mag-lev through the country. Otherwise, China trumps their efforts.

The term railway is not in dispute. A railway is a guideway. A roman road or aquaduct could be considered a guideway. Elevated rail sits in a concrete guideway. Rails are merely the implementation. In fact, in Japan, ALL high speed rail runs inside a guideway. I think you'd have a hard time...

So strange. You'd think they'd just extend the length of the train overall. It doesn't matter if the nose of the train sticks off the platform, after all.

Again, I was not intending to sound pedantic. Mag-lev, especially the Japanese mag-lev does in fact run on rails. Concrete rails. I said that I liked the way wikipedia described it not that it was a credible source. The other link that talked about the etymology of train was far more...

Just a point regarding design. The closer we get to natural designs the better. Human creations don't even come close to biological ones. If you look at the field of bio-mimicry... you'll find that scientists are finding reasons why things were made the way they were. Most designs are stuck...

In case anyone would like to see the final rendering: Reminds me of an E-Type:

"Ugly" is subjective. Some who hated this car ended up liking it: Here's the basic model: The long nose is primarily because of extensive tunnels, to reduce noise. It's not just about speed, Japan has some of the strictest noise pollution rules in the world. They also tend to have a 25%...

Not a fan of the colors they chose and I prefer the Shark-nosed one... which looked like a figher plane cockpit... but I like it. Does look like a Dolphin. I wanna see one in real life. If it's an improvement over existing Shinkansen services, I can't wait... they're already super quiet...

not sure if that's definitive. After all, both "nose" sections are long and reduce tunnel boom. Though, it would "seem" that the "dolphin" nose is being highlighted.

Aeroplanes are a great solution... only problem is the airports are hard to weave into urban fabric. Less efficient, too.

Well, they would likely use European or Japanese Technology, which are all high-level.