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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (473072)	2/21/2012 2:37:29 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 794039

High speed rail: Industrial revolution version in France, 574 kph youtube.com Impressive but not good enough. Maglev version in Japan at about the same speed: youtube.com Both leave a problem at the departure and destination locations with more transport needed. In the highway platoon version with individual vehicles, people would just peel off from the platoon and head off on their own at slower speeds around the city streets and out into the countryside. The "jam them all together in a train" method is not the way to move people. That's 19th century thinking, good for the technology of the day and concentration camps. Now it's the 21st century and the technological revolution is rampant. People can and do live anywhere, working via wireless Cyberspace. I'm doing it right now at Mount Maunganui. So is the brains of the outfit [Zenbu] from Rarotonga. Airlines are still last-century zones with no sensible Cyberspace available for passengers. With Globalstar, people will be able to have a modem on the window and link via wifi to their iPad. Bypass the dopey and greedy airlines. "Trains" should be low-flying cars, but superconductor costs still make the ideal away in the future. Existing maglev is not bad though. Mqurice

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