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Post #22,523
by Simon_Jester
12/27/01 5:22:09 PM
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New While I like the concept of rail...
Implementing rail in the US is going to be a huge investment. Imagine all of the support business for airlines (rental cars, hotels, restaurants, stores, parking lots, sky caps, etc.) and realize that they have to be duplicated for railroads as the mechanism is so similar. (

(Yes, you can take your car with you on a train, but most railroad travelers don't).

Perhaps the answer is to run the railroads to where these support mechanisms exist (ie: airports).

The other possible answer, perhaps, is to change the mechanism for rail transportation. Instead of parking your car, buying a ticket and climbing about a vehicle....perhaps the answer is to model it similar to our highway system - Drive your car to an on-ramp and let it transport you to your destination.
Post #22,541
by Ashton
12/27/01 9:39:33 PM
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New Setting the dials on the Way-Forward machine
(which assumes we might not ever get over techno for its own sake ??)

I see:

Clones bred with tabla rasa for purposes of temporarily hosting - holographic-like personalities transmitted from afar. You visit by sending a er (local host ;-) to an address; in-corporate personality and.. it seems to be You. (This takes care of visits which are umm, other than platonic in nature).

Spin-offs: You Can! try that Grand Canyon leap on a Vincent, say - if willing to pay the deposit on the local host not returned OR (if you should make it - though I really wouldn't want to land umm astride.. aforementioned vehicle!) -- why then you could have your 15 minutes of fame in this sterile, work-less techno-society of The (Momentarily) Famous!

This-all can be a plausible solution (if idiotic - but then, so much else is too..) to energy usage per capita, when everyone's warehoused in cells in 1000-story Urbmons (thanks Mr. Silverberg).





(OK OK ... but the movie'd sell, be better than car-crashes, guns and heaped dead burned bodies shown in livid color) And some asshole'd actually like 'living' that way and start funding it.


\ufffd 2001 Ashton Human Progress Seminars Ltd.
'Progress' is always in the eye of the entrepreneur, not the folks what gots to live with it
     Frace allows suicide bomber abord US bound flight - (dmarker2) - (25) - Dec. 22, 2001, 10:19:44 PM EST
         Doing Maxwell Smart one better. - (marlowe) - (9) - Dec. 23, 2001, 08:42:04 AM EST
             Great... - (tjsinclair) - (8) - Dec. 23, 2001, 11:39:51 AM EST
                 Perhaps the postal approach + (note dearth of females) - (Ashton) - (7) - Dec. 23, 2001, 04:37:03 PM EST
                     One thing I noted later - (tjsinclair) - (1) - Dec. 23, 2001, 06:44:57 PM EST
                         Response, more than prophylaxis - (kmself) - Dec. 23, 2001, 07:32:28 PM EST
                     Just as nutso, but . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Dec. 23, 2001, 08:29:13 PM EST
                     Actually, yes there have been - (Simon_Jester) - (3) - Dec. 24, 2001, 11:24:27 AM EST
                         Well there's always.. fly sedated. - (Ashton) - (2) - Dec. 24, 2001, 04:57:33 PM EST
                             Evil Grin - you're still focused on the passenger aspect... - (Simon_Jester) - (1) - Dec. 25, 2001, 11:13:31 PM EST
                                 The buyout option - (kmself) - Dec. 26, 2001, 12:51:00 AM EST
         Just got back from LA - (tuberculosis) - (9) - Dec. 26, 2001, 05:36:34 PM EST
             So it's now quicker to drive.. SF--> LA - (Ashton) - (7) - Dec. 26, 2001, 07:24:48 PM EST
                 Re: flying naked. - (a6l6e6x) - Dec. 26, 2001, 09:27:22 PM EST
                 Are trains much safer? - (Arkadiy) - (5) - Dec. 27, 2001, 10:47:49 AM EST
                     But, as the joke goes... - (Simon_Jester) - Dec. 27, 2001, 10:54:09 AM EST
                     Where? - (wharris2) - Dec. 27, 2001, 11:57:12 AM EST
                     HSR safety record - (kmself) - (2) - Dec. 27, 2001, 03:59:19 PM EST
                         While I like the concept of rail... - (Simon_Jester) - (1) - Dec. 27, 2001, 05:22:09 PM EST
                             Setting the dials on the Way-Forward machine - (Ashton) - Dec. 27, 2001, 09:39:33 PM EST
             Got back from AZ yesterday... - (inthane-chan) - Dec. 27, 2001, 12:10:39 PM EST
         Okay, so what's the news on the explosive? - (wharris2) - (4) - Dec. 26, 2001, 10:33:32 PM EST
             I've heard rumor it's pentrite...but I don't know - (Simon_Jester) - Dec. 26, 2001, 10:55:41 PM EST
             According to NY Times - triacetone triperoxide, TATP. - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - Dec. 28, 2001, 10:26:00 PM EST
                 Duh? - (Ric Locke) - (1) - Dec. 28, 2001, 11:54:07 PM EST
                     Screwed-up weather. - (inthane-chan) - Dec. 31, 2001, 10:33:45 AM EST

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