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Comment Could High-Speed Trains Shorten US Travel Times Wh (Score 3, Informative) 222

The answer is no. Almost all of the rail lines in the United States are owned by the freight companies and getting right of way corridors for dedicated passenger rail through the country would be almost impossible, require the use of eminent domain, and destroy many pieces of family homes. Even Amtrak cannot make its own connecting trains (YouTube worst Amtrak route from Florida to Alaska?) because it has to wait for freight trains as they get precedence on their own rails over passenger traffic.

Also, examine what happened with high-speed rail in California. The red tape is extreme.

Comment Three bubbles popping at once (Score 4, Interesting) 83

Just think about all three bubbles popping at the same time, likely caused by collapsing confidence in the AI market when it's revealed that training does not equal creativity and progress has slowed to incremental steps. That's when markets fall.

Falling markets will affect crypto and the ability to pay ballooning debt. Then you enter the debt death spiral.

I was in college when the Internet bubble burst. We were all there for IT, too. Same with the 2008 sub-prime bubble. If one bubble can be that bad, imagine a cascade of three.

I hope it's all just a bad guess.

Comment This makes no sense at all (Score 1, Interesting) 184

Lifting gigantic windmill blades by airplane makes absolutely no sense at all. They are already so large they do not fit down streets - so we will make them larger and they will go airport to airport and then what? They still have to fit down streets to get to the turbine.

HOW ABOUT we use a lifting body like an airship instead? Heck, it can even be a motor assisted lifting body so we don't need to offset all that weight in gas alone. Then we can deliver the blades RIGHT TO the worksite, no roads or runway needed.

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