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China Tests 500 km/h Super High-Speed Train [Constructed With Stolen US Technology!]
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| December 26, 2011
Posted on 12/26/2011 10:29:54 AM PST by Steelfish
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To: ExCTCitizen
Exactly. I’ve ridden the high speed trains in China (from Shanghai to Nanjing) and they’re a lot of Siemens units. China paid the Germans and Japanese to come in, show them how to build the systems, how to lay the rail, and to provide a few hundred cars.
Then China began duplicating.
Nothing I’d seen in China reminded me at all of any AMTRAK train or system I’ve ever seen... European and Japanese, sure - but not American.
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posted on
12/26/2011 11:32:00 AM PST
by
FromTheSidelines
("everything that deceives, also enchants" - Plato)
To: Steelfish; bigheadfred; All
Here's a picture;
It looks cool. Don't know how nice it'd look after derailing at 300+ mph. Does look cooler than the trains we've got here (and with gasoline around $8.25 per gallon, I'll take the train, thanks).
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posted on
12/26/2011 11:41:54 AM PST
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: Steelfish
a train or anything else traveling at this speed along the ground is just plain stupid. Too many things can go wrong as far as things getting in the way.
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posted on
12/26/2011 11:46:39 AM PST
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: AnAmericanAbroad
"will provide useful reference for current high-speed railway operations,"We must be getting closer to town.
How can you tell?
We're hitting more people.
To: Steelfish
Considering we have one of the worst train systems in the world, why would they try to steal our technology?
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posted on
12/26/2011 11:55:42 AM PST
by
eclecticEel
(Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
To: Steelfish
The lesson is, that, until America can achieve the labor costs of China, we will never be able to afford a high tech society.
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posted on
12/26/2011 11:58:18 AM PST
by
depressed in 06
( Where is the 1984 Apple Super Bowl ad when we need it?)
To: Steelfish
Who in hell cares whether the technology was “stolen?” China is using it, while we’re not. The future belongs to those who take risks. Let the meek inherit the Earth - it’s all they deserve.
To: BlazingArizona
CA high speed LA-SF derailed. The technology and know-how is there but prohibitive labor costs. Communist China has no unions. Rich in irony.
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posted on
12/26/2011 12:06:06 PM PST
by
Steelfish
(ui)
To: Steelfish
Willie Green would be proud.
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posted on
12/26/2011 12:07:54 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Steelfish
What happens when a water buffalo stand on the tracks in front of one of those? Will the nose crumple or is it an armored ram?
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posted on
12/26/2011 12:13:22 PM PST
by
fso301
To: joe fonebone
this is only newsworthy to the convert america to europe liberal hippies...So using advanced technology to transport on high speed rails makes one a "liberal hippie"?
Can you spell Luddite...
To: Prokopton
"So using advanced technology to transport on high speed rails makes one a "liberal hippie"?"
Gee, I must have missed something... powered railways have been around for almost 200 hundred years, and human power push railways for thousands.... are you saying getting more horsepower out of outdated technology is "advanced"? if it has wheels riding on 40 pound a yard rail, it is not advanced... now, if you can get magnetic, no contact transports (at this point they would no longer be railways, as they would not be riding on rails) then you can talk to me about "advanced"... until then this is just a hippies dream, and a talking point for mass transit....
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posted on
12/26/2011 12:28:50 PM PST
by
joe fonebone
(Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
To: hosepipe
Better yet just cut power to the mag lev system when the thing hits full speed. Whole new version of chinese fireworks.
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posted on
12/26/2011 12:32:27 PM PST
by
bossmechanic
(If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
To: bossmechanic
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posted on
12/26/2011 12:37:28 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
To: Steelfish
Thanks for the post, looking forward to more train ones.
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posted on
12/26/2011 12:39:21 PM PST
by
92nina
To: Steelfish
Unless it runs on an elevated track or in a tunnel where could this train run at that speed?
To: joe fonebone
Gee, I must have missed something... powered railways have been around for almost 200 hundred years, and human power push railways for thousands.... Yes, you sure did miss "something". By your thinking, as powered aircraft have been around for more than 100 years, the Concorde would be "just a hippies dream".
Fail.
To: BlazingArizona
Passenger railroads are as much of a money loser for them as it is for anyone else.
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posted on
12/26/2011 12:51:37 PM PST
by
DManA
( ex)
To: harpu
There are beautiful freeways parallel to their train tracks between the major cities and they are full of cars and buses.
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posted on
12/26/2011 12:52:45 PM PST
by
DManA
( ex)
To: fso301
In China, they’re almost always elevated ways...
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posted on
12/26/2011 1:01:11 PM PST
by
FromTheSidelines
("everything that deceives, also enchants" - Plato)
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