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PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

The trains are not always trains.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

How can our eyes be real?

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

What a beautiful sight.

It's too bad Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood is such a flimsy underrepresentation of the average American oil tycoon

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

I'm no expert on US geography, but isn't it like really dumb to put 3 train lines through desert? (the red, yellow and grey lines).

i can understand the coastlines (east and west) and maybe one in the south (the yellow line). what i basically don't get is the rest.

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[-] 2FortGaming@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

WIll the prices not be as bad? Amtrack costs like $270 from Clevland to Colorodo which I know is a travaling half of the country but thats not cheap for me

[-] anton 2 points 1 month ago

If you buy a ticket last minute for a high speed train it will stay expensive. Train people want you to be predictable, so book ahead and pay around half price.
Slower trains will obviously be free at point of use.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

And once again Phoenix to Las Vegas is ignored.

[-] juliebean@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

i mean, at those speeds, it'd probably still be faster to take the trip through LA than to drive at least.

[-] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

At least we’d have a much cooler president.

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[-] grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

While we're dreaming, can we connect SLC to Boise and Portland?

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

You know I've seen this argument numerous numerous times and I still don't believe that enough people would be interested in using the train to go to either Boise or Portland in large enough numbers to make it worth it. Hell we can barely get people to take UTA as it is.

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