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Oh Yeah - We're #1
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Oh Yeah - We're #1
http://apnews.excite.com/article/2014100...100ba.html


Quote:World's 1st bullet train, made in Japan, turns 50


Quote:The Shinkansen renewed interest in high-speed rail elsewhere, notably in Europe. France and Spain are among the leaders in Europe, and Turkey last year became the ninth country to operate a train at an average speed of 200 kph, according to Railway Gazette. South Korea and Taiwan also operate high-speed systems in Asia. The United States is an exception, though there are proposals to build lines in California and Texas. The fastest train in the U.S., Amtrak's Acela Express, averages 169 kph (105 mph) on a short stretch between Baltimore and Wilmington, Delaware, the speed survey says.


This country is run by assholes.
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RE: Oh Yeah - We're #1
The oil teet is hard to wean off of...
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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(October 1, 2014 at 12:22 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://apnews.excite.com/article/2014100...100ba.html


Quote:World's 1st bullet train, made in Japan, turns 50


Quote:The Shinkansen renewed interest in high-speed rail elsewhere, notably in Europe. France and Spain are among the leaders in Europe, and Turkey last year became the ninth country to operate a train at an average speed of 200 kph, according to Railway Gazette. South Korea and Taiwan also operate high-speed systems in Asia. The United States is an exception, though there are proposals to build lines in California and Texas. The fastest train in the U.S., Amtrak's Acela Express, averages 169 kph (105 mph) on a short stretch between Baltimore and Wilmington, Delaware, the speed survey says.


This country is run by assholes.

I think they just confused our politicians by reporting in Kilometers per hour...that's dirty socialist number-speak!
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Oh Yeah - We're #1
Minor quibble, but the Italians run the world's first true bullet train just before WWII, 25 years before the Japanese. The development was not renewed in Italy after the war, so it was largely forgotten.

I don't know if the Italian pre-war high speed rail ran as often late as normal Italian rail.
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RE: Oh Yeah - We're #1
This is a piece of the track from work to my parents'

http://youtu.be/ENGQDz6czGM?t=14s

The best thing is - you can comfortably drink coffee and work on your computer at 186 mph.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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Libya doesn't have trains. I don't know what happened to the ones built by the Italians
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(October 1, 2014 at 12:37 pm)DramaQueen Wrote: Libya doesn't have trains. I don't know what happened to the ones built by the Italians

Like, none at all?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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(October 1, 2014 at 12:37 pm)DramaQueen Wrote: Libya doesn't have trains. I don't know what happened to the ones built by the Italians

Destroyed during the war?
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We don't even have public transportation system e.g buses and taxis.
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RE: Oh Yeah - We're #1
Neither does most of America.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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