Comments on: World rail speed record 2007

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:52:52 +0000

By the way, this is a French train and it hasn’t broken the world record which has been done by a japan maglev train (585 kph I think).

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:50:46 +0000

in my opinion, to have an accident at 280 mph or 100 mph would change nothing … just that my body would be split in smaller pieces but death in all cases… So it will change nothing to put a bomb in a conventional train or a high speed train … even a stopped train would be dangerous with a terrorist’s bomb.

By: ted

ted — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:38:31 +0000

Look out!
There goes a terrorist now!
Let’s get him!

By: Sid

Sid — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:57:41 +0000

The problem with pushing train speeds (at least those using semi-conventional tracks) is that they are EXTREMELY vulnerable to terrorism or even “stupid adoloscent hijinks” like stuff on the tracks. It’s impossible to completely patrol the entire stretch of tracks and even a very small charge or weakened piece of track (either almost undetectable — almost invisible if done by properly skilled criminals) would spell disaster. Since kinetic energy is a function of the square of the speed of the object, a train moving at 280 mph will have 16x (!!!) the kinetic energy of a 70 mph train (given the same mass). Combine this vulnerability with the “media prominence” of such a project and it’s a very ripe terrorist target. Al-Quaeda terrorists attacked both Spain’s and England’s conventional railway systems already. Think how they must be licking their chops over this thing.

By: intelnm

intelnm — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:35:35 +0000

i would love to have a 12 minute commute. i have to drive an hour each way to get to work. 50 miles each way on the interstate. i would love to have this train here in NM then maybe i would have a 12 minute commute then

By: Lasse

Lasse — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:51:21 +0000

What if somebody places a walnut on the tracks?

By: artbot

artbot — Tue, 01 May 2007 00:59:09 +0000

If they could build one of these for my 4.7 mile trip to work, I could get my tiresome 12 minute commute down to 76 seconds. Let me know when it’s ready.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:26:24 +0000

Wow, hope we will have it here in Canada.
Justin
seedubai.blogspot.com

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:45:23 +0000

Bah, show me the video of the terminally-ill kid using suction cups to cling to the back of the world rail-speed record run. I find I’m getting increasingly more difficult to impress.

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