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      8 months ago

      China is bad. Bad fucking ass.

      Seriously look at this thing. When was the last time Amerikkka produced something this cool?

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      8 months ago

      This is impressive but we absolutey need to consider at what cost. Nowhere in the headline do they even raise the question!

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      8 months ago

      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.

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          8 months ago

          I can’t imagine this stuff will see operation in the near future, but there’s so much that you learn from even just trying to build something like this that will be applicable in a lot of other areas. Big ambitious projects are traditionally really good for pushing the technological envelope.