• Wanderer@lemm.ee
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          9 months ago

          The government really needs to grow some balls and get better with this stuff.

          Just draw some lines on a map. Offer everyone 1.3x the value of their house (or however much) and take it off them. For the greater good.

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            9 months ago

            Often you don’t even need more property. Just utilize existing rail systems. So much unused or barely used rail in this country.

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          9 months ago

          NIMBY applies to stuff like urban housing development and certain kinds of healthcare clinics. Not wanting loud-ass fucking trains rolling through 24/7 is perfectly reasonable. Too many people don’t care enough about noise pollution.

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            9 months ago

            I live two blocks from a set of active train tracks, the irritating bit isn’t the train itself, it’s the horn. As they pass through downtown and pass the multiple level crossings, they just blare the damn thing.

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              So the problem isn’t trains near houses, it’s train crossings near houses where horns are required. Fix the crossings to not require horns and you’re golden.

              We have a commuter rail that used to sound its horns all the time, so they fixed the interactions and most if not all intersections no longer require horns.

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                9 months ago

                Strange. Trains don’t even have horns in my country as far as I know. At least I have literally never heard one, and I take the train quite often.

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                  9 months ago

                  They all do, here. The6 blow them when coming up to road crossings to give warning that you better not be on the tracks.

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      9 months ago

      More like a trailer, good luck to those pilots in turbulence have you ever tried driving a car with a trailer that catches a strong wind?

      I think the real shipping breakthrough most people are looking for is low power neutral buoyancy without having to travel at hundreds of miles per hour.

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          9 months ago

          They’re perfect except for the part where they basically don’t work. They’re not much faster than a seagoing vessel, carry a lot less, are way more expensive, and are basically guaranteed to crash. Intermodal water + rail freight is more practical.

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          9 months ago

          Directly measuring gravity waves first happened pretty recently in 2016 using LIGO, there’s a possibility through future observations at different frequencies someone might identify a means of manipulation. When humans first discovered electricity & electromagnetic fields it took awhile before batteries and generators, etc. It’s not guaranteed but isn’t impossible either.