Train Travel at the Speed of Sound
May 27, 2015 10:58:58 #
How would you like to travel by train at near the speed of sound? Elon Musk is having a test track built to test just such a train.
http://www.sciencealert.com/a-test-track-is-being-built-for-elon-musk-s-1-200-km-h-train
http://www.sciencealert.com/a-test-track-is-being-built-for-elon-musk-s-1-200-km-h-train
May 27, 2015 11:30:05 #
May 27, 2015 16:04:33 #
James Powell, told Tanya Lewis over at LiveScience. "The guideway [track] has to be built to very fine tolerances, because if the position of the wall deviates from straightness by a few thousandths of an inch, you could crash."
.....but the passenger would never know what happened and no piece of him would ever be found...... :XD: :thumbup:
.....but the passenger would never know what happened and no piece of him would ever be found...... :XD: :thumbup:
May 28, 2015 06:18:24 #
TucsonCoyote wrote:
James Powell, told Tanya Lewis over at LiveScience. "The guideway [track] has to be built to very fine tolerances, because if the position of the wall deviates from straightness by a few thousandths of an inch, you could crash."
.....but the passenger would never know what happened and no piece of him would ever be found...... :XD: :thumbup:
.....but the passenger would never know what happened and no piece of him would ever be found...... :XD: :thumbup:
Nice to know. Think I'll give it a miss!
May 28, 2015 06:49:48 #
May 28, 2015 18:51:57 #
sb wrote:
I would be happy with a decent moderately-high-speed rail system...
How about just an express?
May 28, 2015 19:34:43 #
sb wrote:
I would be happy with a decent moderately-high-speed rail system...
If you have ever witnessed a High Speed train blowing through a small town at 300+ MPH while having your morning coffee while sitting at a cafe terrace a few hundred yards from the tacks and didn't spill it all over yourself then you are for sure one who has grown up around these things!
Just think of that wreck that just happened at just over 100MPH a week ago !
.....way too much mass at high speed leads one to think ! :roll:
May 28, 2015 23:38:19 #
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