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To: Snowshoe who wrote (56528)	11/26/2004 10:44:59 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Snowshoe, earthquake engineering isn't tricky. Shinkansen live in a major earthquake zone and they don't have serious problems. A flying train would have even less problem [no need to keep rails and wheels in contact]. There would be a gap between the train and the surroundings designed to manage any earthquake size. Passengers wouldn't even feel the shake! Much better than rail. The train wouldn't even need to slow down. A one-moving-part train [or passenger vehicle] would be a great way to run a railway. No wheels would be fine. China might lead the world in this. They have the population, flat topography in a lot of places, are getting the money and have a need. Heck, they could print umpty billion renminbi which would also solve the worry various people have about China's currency being undervalued. Use those freshly pixelated yuan to pay for the developments. As with their telecommunications systems, China won't go through the whole 20th century legacy systems. In telecommunications, they are going straight to cyberphones using CDMA without having ever installed much copper. Similarly with passenger movements - forget the SUVs, roads, oil industry, Gordian Knot internal combustion engines, pollution, catalytic converters and stuff. Go straight to superconductor-levitated and magnetically-propelled flying vehicles, which are electronically and photonically controlled. Mqurice

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