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1y ago

Record-smashing Chinese maglev hyperloop train hits 387 mph and could someday outpace a plane

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Record-smashing Chinese maglev hyperloop train hits 387 mph and could someday outpace a plane

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1y ago

Record-smashing Chinese maglev hyperloop train hits 387 mph and could someday outpace a plane

www.livescience.com /technology/engineering/chinese-maglev-hyperloop-t-flight-casic-train-hits-387-mph-and-could-someday-outpace-a-plane

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Sure, but have you considered China bad?
- China is bad. Bad fucking ass.
  Seriously look at this thing. When was the last time Amerikkka produced something this cool?
- This is impressive but we absolutey need to consider at what cost. Nowhere in the headline do they even raise the question!
but at what a cost of the average Car CEO earnings?
They already have all the high-speed rail you could want so might as well do something new ig
- It mostly seems like a flex to me, if they can build this then it shows how advanced technologically China has become. This is the tech that US hyped up, but was never actually able to make it work. China putting this into practice would be a clear sign that China outpaced US technologically.
  
  while that would be funny, I suspect resources would best be spent on something else.
So they are making a hyperloop? As in, low pressure speed train? Why?
- China already has high saturation of regular high speed rail, and I'm guessing this would supplement that potential for long distance travel. It mostly seems like flex to me, if they can build this then it shows how advanced technologically China has become. This is the tech that US hyped up, but was never actually able to make it work. China putting this into practice would be a clear sign that China outpaced US technologically.
I'd personally opt for something more "conventional", like the SCMaglev being developed in Japan (or better yet, that Chengdu Maglev prototype). As fast as this train would go inside a vacuum tube, the tube itself will just add much more complexities and points of failure, on top of being more expensive to build/maintain.
Also a large part of the "experience" is also being to watch the scenery pass by at 300-600km/h+ out of the window, which is lost when inside of a very long concrete/steel tube.

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