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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: marek_wojna who wrote (22608)	8/13/2002 7:47:21 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Marek, Perhaps Bombardier is under threat from Segway? Hordes of people, zipping across the world on hot-rod scooters [though Dean Kamen does NOT want them called scooters]. Or, maybe the new Shanghai Maglev train developments will replace airlines. For years I've thought that ground transport beats airlines [not so far to fall for a start]. With superconductors and electronic/photonic control with smart computing, levitated carriages could hurtle across the countryside in secure partial vacuum perspex tubes [powered with photovoltaic panels on top in Australia] at 1000 km per hour. Okay, there'd need to be some physics in there - in a depressurized tube, the bow wave would need to be disposed of [with one-way valves out into the atmosphere], the sunlight heating would need to be disposed of ... nah, all too hard for now. Aircraft remain quick, cheap and easy, but the passengers need to have no luggage allowed so no bombs can wreck the thing and security checks can be dramatically reduced. People don't need luggage anyway. Luggage could go on separate cargo flights with autopilots. Or something... Mqurice

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