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$2 million study looks at hyperloop – 700 mph transit – that would cross Pennsylvania
The Patriot-News ^ | September 26, 2019 | Jana Benscoter

Posted on 10/13/2019 8:19:47 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: bigbob

Giant slingshot would work fine.


21 posted on 10/13/2019 9:22:08 PM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: hal ogen

The Criminal Class is OPM-addicted.


22 posted on 10/13/2019 9:24:50 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Telecommute
Zoom conference
Send me $2-million, report to follow


23 posted on 10/13/2019 9:26:02 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: Dilbert San Diego

As kids, we had to do that ride. 6 hours! Torture to see grandparents. Got a little better once we grew up and better roads. I’d love to have this 30 years ago!!!!!


24 posted on 10/13/2019 9:49:01 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
So how many people will need to get from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in half an hour?

If my car can ride along, I like the idea of taking six hours off the drive across Pennsylvania. Of course that assures I won't spend any money IN Pennsylvania.
25 posted on 10/13/2019 9:53:36 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (Sutor, ne ultra crepidam--Appelles of Kos)
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To: Dr. Sivana; Dilbert San Diego

Pittsburgh to Valley Forge (primary EB Philly exit) Toll on the PA Transit subsidy aka Turnpike is $39.30

$ with EZ Pass $26.90

One way.

Going up 6% on January 1, 2020.

Can you say, “highway robbery?”

I knew you could.


26 posted on 10/13/2019 10:34:52 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Why not $2 million dollars for a study about a Star Trek transporter?

That would be faster.

Or a $2 million dollar study on whether young, rich and healthy people are happier than old, poor and sick people.


27 posted on 10/13/2019 11:12:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The concept doesn’t violate any of the laws of physics (Scotty would agree). It’s at least worth studying. Where’s the can-do spirit these days?


28 posted on 10/13/2019 11:21:45 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Bwahahahaha

Oh goody. Now Pennsylvania can replicate California


29 posted on 10/13/2019 11:36:16 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

is this the first signal of gavin newsom for president?

i can envision it already:

“make high speed rail great again!”

lol


30 posted on 10/14/2019 12:24:19 AM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It now costs more than $25 in tolls to use the Turnpike from Harrisburg to New Stanton.

When I started using it, the toll was $14 a little more than 7 years ago.

I recall reading or hearing a news article about how Pennsylvania was going to continue to raise the toll 4% per year for the next 40 years.

Good job Pennsylvania.


31 posted on 10/14/2019 1:00:52 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

So how many people will need to get from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in half an hour?

How much will it cost to travel?


How many people are willing to wait at each of the dozens of stops for 1/2 hour?

Cost? One dollar each way... the other $174 will be taken out of taxes as a subsidy.


32 posted on 10/14/2019 1:40:43 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Media wasn’t permitted to attend the invitation-only meeting.

There's a huge red flag, taxpayers.

BTW, just checked your state budget, Pennsy. Thanks to your public pension obligations and Medicaid spending, you can't afford it.

33 posted on 10/14/2019 3:31:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: hal ogen
Barry Altman, the state’s hyperloop project manager

But just to be clear, hal, they aren't wasting money on the PROJECT. There is no projectt, and there never will be.

They're wasting money on the project MANAGER and his staff.

The reason they are doing that is probably the need to win women's votes in the suburbs.

34 posted on 10/14/2019 3:50:08 AM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The safety issues keep coming to my mind...
What if there is a break down? 700 mph is a LOT of momentum that would disintegrate a ‘de-levitated’ train...

What if there is a loss of power? You can’t just get out and walk in a depressurized tunnel without dying, and there would have to be a plethora of life support equipment that would have to be redundant with independent power...

Sounds like a death tunnel to me.


35 posted on 10/14/2019 3:57:14 AM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Barry Altman, the state’s hyperloop project manager

What a scam. I wonder to whom is he related?

36 posted on 10/14/2019 4:06:27 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Hey, how about taking that passenger compartment, putting wings and engines on it and using the atmosphere around all of us for levitation. Hey, then you don’t have to put down those expensive tubes and tracks. These winged compartments can go anywhere where there’s an atmosphere.


37 posted on 10/14/2019 4:35:35 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: jz638

How many dollars per foot does boring and lining a tunnel through granite and shale cost? Never going to happen and people that think it will are deluded. Just because it was Musk’s idea doesn’t make it a good one.


38 posted on 10/14/2019 4:50:06 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: cymbeline

Yeah, but I’ll bet those winged tubes in the atmosphere can’t do 700 mph. Why, they only get to 500 mph. Those last 200 mph are absolutely essential.


39 posted on 10/14/2019 5:14:57 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Yeah, but I’ll bet those winged tubes in the atmosphere can’t do 700 mph.”

I suspected my idea was a bad one but I threw it out anyway.


40 posted on 10/14/2019 6:10:50 AM PDT by cymbeline
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