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Post #AqcurFkimEYUeetSPw by [email protected] |
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I was calculating the damage of weaponized high speed rail and wolfram alpha to… |
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Post #AqcuxmnunykotqVE7k by [email protected] |
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@foone Uh. Weaponized WHAT? Against what? |
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Post #Aqcv1YLIVytxCqug0O by [email protected] |
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@foone 1CPH |
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Post #Aqcv4NR1WeSoFHwDj6 by [email protected] |
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Sir Isaac Newton may be the deadliest son of a bitch in space, but if you hit L… |
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Post #Aqcv8CIirZe2sAsRBw by [email protected] |
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@foone would infinite joules be a consequence of relativistic mass increase? |
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Post #AqcvB2ZTUjcZZ64Ijo by [email protected] |
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@foone I thought the infinity joules were what Dr Robotnik was after |
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Post #AqcvDUde71H1C3BmLI by [email protected] |
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@futurebird the terminating station, in this case. |
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Post #AqcvOtKGfIrMwgYmnI by [email protected] |
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@foone The terminated station, more like it. |
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Post #AqcvcUnqdaPuwXsoRE by [email protected] |
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I was joking on Tumblr that two things I think the US should do are:1. Revive t… |
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Post #AqcvhKO0nI0O5I6Pom by [email protected] |
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with the minor downside that if the brakes fail you'll hit LA with more kin… |
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Post #AqcvmMT6TpSlzQst4S by [email protected] |
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@foone Is it bad that my first thought was "but that would kill all the an… |
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Post #AqcvpbD67v5gZzwRWq by [email protected] |
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@foone "A four car consist of Breda A650 travelling at 0.75C impacts Angel… |
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Post #AqcvuqubAxzqj1nGxE by [email protected] |
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@foone It's the 'supercolliding' part I'm worried about, yeah; … |
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Post #AqcvveWCjwC0ZqlUsC by [email protected] |
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Relativistic weapons are a hell of a drug.https://www.projectrho.com/public_htm… |
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Post #AqcvxQY7eD5RpeVa8O by [email protected] |
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@foone …failing to see the problem |
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Post #AqcvyjL9Glq0Os3req by [email protected] |
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@foone Just one of those quarks of my personality |
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Post #Aqcw2DUrbVx6nYGfmy by [email protected] |
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@foone Stopping the train might be a bit painful, though... |
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Post #Aqcw5IWDODWRF3Mwue by [email protected] |
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This, by the way (looking up some formulas on Atomic Rockets and a few google s… |
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Post #Aqcw8gtBEmfdh5jFrc by [email protected] |
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@foone 13 milliseconds to a stationary observer. |
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Post #AqcwBpxVyL0Gh0FyC0 by [email protected] |
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@uep true! it's like the "blow up the asteroid" problem: Instead … |
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Post #AqcwESHITR5K7Gl3WC by [email protected] |
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@plaidtron3000 right. Compared to an observer on the train going the opposite w… |
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Post #AqcwILqOKxM5Ju1zBA by [email protected] |
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@foone brakes? The energy they’d have to absorb and/dissipate would still cau… |
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Post #AqcwL7V47kUnhZNNom by [email protected] |
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@futurebird @foone I will be disembarking at the penultimate stop, thank you. |
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Post #AqcwL7dDdR1A6rBtWi by [email protected] |
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@ShiitakeToast @futurebird @fooneProbably still in the blast radius. |
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Post #AqcwL7nV1DF0ck06YC by [email protected] |
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@mattdm @ShiitakeToast @futurebird in this case the blast radius is measured in… |
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Post #AqcwQsvfDAtYFRZALA by [email protected] |
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@foone based on Randall Munroe's What If series, I have a hunch that it'… |
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Post #AqcwQt6IZdOymQXeuu by [email protected] |
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@mDuo13 I mean, yeah. Even if you were coming straight down towards LA, you'… |
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Post #AqcwRMI03CzdJ7EugK by [email protected] |
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@munin I think that's Juuls. He wanted to vape forever |
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Post #AqcwUDkqEuEZhp5wi8 by [email protected] |
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@dr_a yeah. As you get closer to c, your mass increases. at c, your mass is inf… |
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Post #AqcwZ4ICqVB3oB0pMm by [email protected] |
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multiple people have pointed out that even if the breaks work, they'd have … |
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Post #AqcxBUTDxxKk08UGFE by [email protected] |
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@foone assuming we can somehow create the energy to accelerate the train once, … |
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Post #AqcxEaykDyd73Ui920 by [email protected] |
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@foone it's okay, it's a dry heat |
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Post #AqcxHdLxquuTHx1LKC by [email protected] |
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@psilocervine very dry, as less than 10^27 joules would flash-boil all the eart… |
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Post #AqcxbEgtFya2ah9i7s by [email protected] |
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@foone "Infinity Jules" is also what you get when you replay Samuel L… |
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Post #Aqcxk40IMO7W3HRQoa by [email protected] |
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@foone (it will also destroy the train almost instantly, but the net momentum o… |
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Post #Aqcxk49Vo7UcVrknBI by [email protected] |
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@tess yeah it'd very quickly stop being a "train" and become an &… |
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Post #AqcxmpxP2e0RM7PYBc by [email protected] |
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@foone We tried that already, back in the 90s. You can read this news article … |
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Post #Aqcxpueu19hEo3DyMq by [email protected] |
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@foone it'll be the hot new summer blockbuster |
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Post #AqcxsdvkfYahnFPJaq by [email protected] |
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@munin the hottest summer since records began, which will be that summer, as al… |
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Post #Aqcy1GJHrIi78sWePo by [email protected] |
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@foone The force of acceleration would turn the passengers into plasma, so that… |
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Post #AqcyfMuoifrvDBCj3Y by [email protected] |
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@foone it would just be easier to use explosives. |
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Post #AqcyfN5o3oevlGLVBY by [email protected] |
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@alex02 good idea! Project Orion: The Train |
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Post #Aqd1OlJP3ndjodTeQC by [email protected] |
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@foone @tess I've already bought tickets for the first NY-LA trip on this t… |
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Post #Aqd1VK6ibYKFT9flei by [email protected] |
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@foone A high-speed-rail supercollider seems entirely feasible with current tec… |
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Post #Aqd1wcUeM0pEJLslrk by [email protected] |
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@foone assuming we don’t want to immediately liquify the passengers...about a… |
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Post #Aqd2HCv0dU5T4c1q6a by [email protected] |
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@foone side info: "somewhere" between 10^46 to 10^50 is the predicted… |
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Post #Aqd2UiIhGlMkASY4jQ by [email protected] |
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@foone @munin anyways, "heat death of entropy" makes a good bandname… |
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Post #Aqd38o0DUNilR31Q4O by [email protected] |
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@foone I'm reminded of Randall Munroe's book "What If?" and t… |
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Post #Aqd4RoV1xuM0Qu3wKO by [email protected] |
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@foone You say that like it's a bad thing. |
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Post #Aqd6ePEBR60dj8JZMO by [email protected] |
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@foone Welcome aboard the Aperture Science Superconducting Supercolliding Super… |
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Post #Aqd6kwaWJfWKvgscu8 by [email protected] |
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@foone the other option besides converting kinectic energy into heat would be t… |
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Post #Aqd9HXZUY2cEo44OkS by [email protected] |
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@foone @uep Isn't the idea that they won't all combust/land but only a … |
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Post #Aqd9HXltnuXZQXsJ5U by [email protected] |
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@lispi314 @uep Right, if you blow it up far away you'll divert much of them… |
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Post #AqdAWPjY4SXAnPQj6u by [email protected] |
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@foone for a sufficiently scifi high speed train that doesn’t turn the earth … |
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Post #AqdAjLBEJPcIRDXdxo by [email protected] |
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@foone this website is expansive! |
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Post #AqdCF3Oa4QUqV6TLP6 by [email protected] |
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@foone that’s only about a thousand times the binding energy of the sun. The … |
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Post #AqdDKBNlu0pwfq6SyO by [email protected] |
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@foone @lurkjay echoes of the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel here! |
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Post #AqdLQ4kiGTMfTx9fM0 by [email protected] |
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@foone Super, colliding trains will happen if the current admin has anything to… |
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Post #AqdLn5GEXZslierySm by [email protected] |
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@foone SSC's cargo capacity is a bit low. But it does cut the travel time! |
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Post #AqdSs4Ons5bQApCczI by [email protected] |
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@foone Hot bogeys in your area! |
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Post #AqdVNBLoH6SecSlWzo by [email protected] |
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@foone @psilocervine thanks, I was about to do the math. |
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Post #AqdbPrYmubhZpjUuMC by [email protected] |
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@foone in the 90s, when the LEP (large electron-positron) collider was the big … |
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Post #AqdolHeuN69yGKuA7c by [email protected] |
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@foone all throughout my lifeevery atom of minehas been surroundedby a cloud of… |
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Post #AqdotZhr9fvaYKEm4u by [email protected] |
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@foone The problem is, it assumed you were talking about light rail. |
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Post #AqdotZsUW8R15JDGee by [email protected] |
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@nonnihil eyyy! |
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Post #AqdriX273OEEwG8c5o by [email protected] |
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@foone Infinity Jewels? Better call the Avengers… |
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Post #Aqe6cpGjq49N4TiSxM by [email protected] |
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@foone The laws of physics are delightfully harsh. |
