Someone should tell China they are doing it all wrong.

No, China doesn’t count because that would challenge my worldview. I know I’m right, I just haven’t figured out how yet.

I hate the attitude that professor exhibits. "Well we might've wasted years of work, billions of dollars, millions of man-hours, burned up large stockpiles of limited resources, arrested development of national infrastructure doing something we knew was impossible and in this process we've created absolutely nothing worthwhile, but at least I learned a lot! Gotta look on the bright side!"

I know this is the second time this shit has been posted, but most rail-less nations are not building railroads because they do not have the nessecery capital intensive industry to build railroads, let alone build a poor man's railroad and then redevelop it, because the world is being purposefully choked of development funds by the IMF and World Bank. God forbid demand gets fulfilled.

I do not understand how you can seriously look at china and go “Nothing but terrible economic choices here ”

Lol, high-speed rail in the US is a joke. California's HSR program started in 1996 and hasn't produced anything substantial in nearly 30 years. They might be able to get 1/3 of Phase 1 into operation by 2030. It's not even in discussion unless it's bundled with some kind of meme shit like depressurized train tunnels and eliminating safety measures.

In China, Deng started the Chinese HSR program around the same time and went from virtually none to being the world leader in kilometers of HSR with ~45,000 Km of operational HSR. To put that into perspective, that's double the rest of the world combined. In fact, China has more HSR in construction than the rest of the world has active HSR today.

Paragon of poor economic choices

"I mean its economics 101! If you always actually complete things instead of just throwing money at rich assholes, eventually you're gonna run out of projects that need doing. And where is your economy going to be then? That's right "

Even the PhDs in the USA are anti-intellectual

This guy's Twitter is the definition of bazinga: just endless posts of how everything can be solved with cool magic future tech. I'm shocked he actually admitted the Hyperloop is a failure.

The vacuum train thing is honestly a waste and is incredibly dangerous, but the fact that China has progressed further than Musk at the testing phase, all the while improving their public train transportation network to be the best in the world, is just

A couple more thoughts:

• the way he immediately dismisses China reminds me of the ICP song 'Miracles' where he asks how magnets work and then says he doesn't want a scientist to explain it
• what poor economic choices by China? Infrastructure? His capitalism-poisoned brain cannot comprehend anything other than 0s on a computer screen.

When you shake his head you can probably hear it rattle inside.

"My tech evangelism job failed so now please buy my story as book, streaming show, or straight-to-streaming movie about the wacky inner workings of Hyperloop!"

I know they mean it was all done domestically but I still think the use of the word homemade is funny.

Just some random Chinese bros hanging out in their garage tinkering with their maglev hypertrain.

Fucking lmao. TechBro-Nerd shit to the max. Get rekt.

If anyone can prove me wrong and build a viable vacuum train, it'll be CRCC.

800K views, 800 likes is very funny to me

usians are the most propagandized people on earth

Phd. in standing in front of money printer go brrr.

trying to build an impossible thing.

The tweet should end here

Average Silicon Valley PhD

LINK. OR.

But at what cost?

If everyone in the US who supported the Ansar Allah at this point was a "tankie" we'd have the 3.5% of the population needed to overthrow this fascist state.

It's still a bad idea

China doesn't count because you can't trust whatever they report to be true.

An example would be their "China made" microchips for the new Huawei or their new laptops, that were supposed to be proof that China didn't need western chips, but then the chips say "Taiwan" for some reason, and you realize they were still using western or older chips, but lying about them being manufactured in China.

When it comes to trains, we've all seen the horribly photoshopped gifs of the trains running on their empty rails.

I'm just here to remind everyone that in China people can't vote, can't run to office, and their basic rights are not protected from the government.