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@MooneyOwnsYou @blankslate2017 My prediction: the Bakersfield to Modesto section is finally set to open in 2043 and then they discover the concrete was made with a few PPM more lead content than allowed by some new law so they have to tear it all out and start over

@BPDBaron @blankslate2017 The most California thing EVER will be that some of the tracks/overpasses will need to be upgraded/retrofitted before they're even done LOL.

Just get it done, and get it done right (meaning, make it high speed from end to end). The line will pay for itself several times over.

@blankslate2017 @California_Derp Nothing short of a violent revolution and ruthless persecution of california Dems would be required to get competent people in charge of CA

@California_Derp So get them out of the way and complete the job right.

@blankslate2017 @BoydsArchitect The cost to maintain HSR will be as overinflated and behind schedule as the initial construction was. This should been done 15 years ago at like $6B.

@BoydsArchitect No, it wouldn't because the cost to maintain roads is high and the congestion on the roads limits GDP growth. That limit turns into an anchor when everyone around you is expanding HSR and improving connectivity.

@blankslate2017 @MooneyOwnsYou By the time it’s done (decades away still LOL) the initial parts that were built will be in severe disrepair requiring closure and refurbishment. It will shutdown before it has any time to even run.

@MooneyOwnsYou It will deliver a boost to GDP over 20 yrs that will more than offset that cost.

@blankslate2017 @thetamonster916 Actually it kinda is. Thats the problem…

@thetamonster916 Not a lot compared to the size of the CA economy.

@blankslate2017 Do you know how many thousands of miles of high speed rail and beautiful stations $126 billion could actually buy us if our government wasn’t run by incompetent and corrupt idiots?

@StefanMolyneux We’ll never cross the Atlantic ocean. It is 375 times wider than the English Channel and would take thousands of our strongest Viking rowers just to overcome the ocean currents

We truly cannot comprehend how far away the closest star system is. A spaceship traveling at the speed of sound - 1,235 km/h - would take 3.8 million years to reach Alpha Centauri. Even the X-15's blistering record of 7,274 km/h would still take ~75,000 years. No aliens, bros.

@GetonTrightside @StefanMolyneux But we already know everything so surely no other aliens have developed anything faster than us

Yeah, any alien related finding would most likely be a relic that was here the entire time we were evolving, etc. AI will likely solve physics in the next decade or so, and we'll know what's possible as far as space travel speed, goes. "Aliens" are most likely a government psyop, to make other governments afraid that we have futuristic technology that they should fear.

@StefanMolyneux Those are slow speeds. Moving at the speed of sound would make you slower than 99.99% of space rocks out there that are just moving at whatever speed they accidentally got.

@YIMBYLAND Even more humid and smelly than the real Manhattan

Seriously, if the hurricane wouldn’t have wiped out old Galveston, the industry and port would have had no reason to move inland and form Houston. Instead, the city that became Houston would have been built on Galveston island and the surrounding bay. Texas Manhattan.

@dotkrueger In some parts of the galaxy the stars are much more densely packed. 0.1 light years for example in clusters and the galactic cores. Not that it helps humans much but an interstellar civilization is entirely plausible elsewhere even within your framework

We're not going to travel beyond the solar system, according to Leonard Susskind. And neither are aliens, coming to visit us. We may not be alone, but we are stuck here for, essentially forever. 1. The nearest star is 4.24 light years away. The fastest spacecraft ever built would require 6,600 years to get there. 2. Surely we can just build faster spacecraft. The problem is to get to anywhere close to the speed of light, we need exponentially more energy. 3. Chemical rockets will just not work. Even fusion rockets won't work. Even 10% of the speed of light is not achievable. The Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation prevents it. 4. Interstellar dust becomes hand grenades when traveling anywhere close to the speed of light. Ships break. 5. Space radiation will kill us over the time need to travel interstellar distances. Impossible to protect without massive shields, which require massive energy to accelerate and de-accelerate.

@upstatefederlst This is an insanely insanely dumb question though. I think the point of the guys’ post is that there’s no way this person is intelligent, so how did she get a Rhodes Scholarship?

People who mock other people for asking questions they genuinely don't know the answer to are the worst kind of people, by the way.

@The_Suburbanist The population of the Bronx today is less than it was in 1950

Wow, look at all that density and rail transit. Wait, that's the Cross Bronx Expressway! Didn't it permanently destroy The Bronx?

@jonnychaffin @bronzeagemantis Always enjoy the beautiful trees when I drive through here. But it's only a few times a year and when I'm on a weekend trip

@bronzeagemantis That’s one of the worst drives in America.

When I lived in northeast USA drive often between Boston and NYC… I’d live in my car half the time sometimes get bored in evening drive up to a girl on street pull down window yell “white bitch!” at her then quickly drive away

China thrived as it began to adopt capitalism, Europe and America struggled as they adopted socialism. A better question is in regards to democracy, which China definitely is not.

@helcaboyakh China. They literally have tech billionaires and government officials get bonus checks if their local GDP goes up. It's arguably more capitalist than the US. A better question is what country developed this fast under democracy?

Show me 1, just 1 country that developed this fast under capitalism?

@JLopas Downtown Houston and Downtown Dallas are just office parks. Hardly anyone lives there

Why are all large Texas cities 10x cleaner than in other states? Houston:

@centristmarxist @RichGaIIina and also would be insanely more expensive

@RichGaIIina I’d miss the sightseeing

Fun fact: this cannot happen without a political revolution that overthrows the US Constitution

@posty2 @davidslosttt Some (maybe most) scheduled trains could skip the less popular stops

@davidslosttt Eliminate 2 of the NJ stops and the stop between dc and Baltimore and we can talk

Building this high speed rail line would be the best thing the US could do to increase its GDP

@SwannMarcus89 Reading this as a homeless man is having a meltdown at court square and scaring children and tourists

New York is such a funny city because it’s currently the single safest major city in America on a per capita basis and literally everyone pretends it’s violent for political reasons