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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (42571)	12/6/2003 4:37:17 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Kerry, I've experienced Phoenix in late August and it was indeed as hot as I need it to be. I haven't been to Tucson or up in the hills there. My broker has a share in a place there [maybe I'd get a free stay]. Wife's aunt's husband lives there. Thanks for the invitation. Madrid, Tokyo, Phoenix and the inside of a hay barn in summer while loading hay have all been too hot for me. I would have cooled them down if I could. Ottawa was too hot too, but only because I was in a car, wearing a tie, before air conditioning was standard. Mostly, hot is good. Humans need to be migratory. We need super airliners. Or those swanky new maglev 12 person 'trains' that the Japanese have got zooming along at 500 or 600 kph. They could travel 1 metre apart on electronically controlled raceways, flying to the warmer or cooler places as needed. 600 kph = 10 km per minute. If the cars are 10m long, including spacing between them, that would fit 100 cars per km = 1,200 people. With 10 km per minute, that would be 12,000 people per minute being moved down the line. With 12 million people in Beijing, it would take 1000 minutes to move them out = 18 hours, or near enough to one day. So a single line could empty the place, even if they all wanted to leave in one day. Gee, that's efficient transport. It would be good to have that between San Diego and Los Angeles. And Washington to New York. New York to Los Angeles. Tokyo to Fukuoka. Shanghai to London, though a short cut over the pole would be quicker. Shanghai to Beijing to Hong Kong. With superconducting lift-off and photonic and electronic controls, it would be very fast, very safe, very efficient and very cheap. For efficiency, I suppose lift from aerodynamics would be less efficient than lift from superconductivity. Control would be by aerodynamics. Brakes and acceleration by linear motor and perhaps hard contact by brake pads on brake tracks attached to walls in emergencies. People could cerf cyberspace on their CDMA2000 cyberphones while they pass the time. Mqurice