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its all nice on rice
Nov 12, 2006

Sweet, Salty Goodness.



Buglord
I figured we'd have a good train system by now considering ticket to ride is one of the most popular board games out there.

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numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

has anyone said high speed trans

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

buckle up buckaroos

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Has anyone maybe thought that high speed is not the way to go? What if we had low speed trains, like 5 mph or so, that you could jog alongside. But then you could take a rest when you got tired of the footpath.

NegroOnlyGloryHole
May 30, 2016

by Shine
By the time all the tracks were built and stuff they would already be obsolete because Elon Musk is making one of those people moving tubes from Futurama

Nessa
Dec 15, 2008

High speed trains are cool. I much prefer riding on a train over a plane. Going through security is a nightmare and I can never get comfortable on a plane. I wish we weren't so reliant on cars.

a retard
Jan 7, 2013

by Lowtax

Ape Fist posted:

When is America going to embrace investing in national infrastructure?

when trump gets elected we will be

also most of that national infrastructure money would be much better spent fixing crumbling bridges than adding bullshit railways in a country where planes exist

psychokitty
Jun 29, 2010

=9.9=
MEOW
BITCHES

numberoneposter posted:

has anyone said high speed trans

Not in my bathroom!!!

Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013
"Oh yeah, let me hurtle my physical body around at high speeds on the daily like an rear end in a top hat instead of just telecommuting via drone to a AR/VR workplace! LOL!!!" - some idiots idea of "the future"

Maoist Pussy
Feb 12, 2014

by Lowtax

spud posted:



E: gently caress sorry, it's trains.

Honestly, it would be cool if some of the trains cars were purple.

My Q-Face
Jul 8, 2002

A dumb racist who need to kill themselves

NegroOnlyGloryHole posted:

If a normal guy killed someone with their car and then cut their dick off people would say there were insane, but bruce is made lady of the year

Bruce didn't cut his dick off though

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.
Can't say that on television.

Volcott fucked around with this message at 16:55 on May 31, 2016

zimboe
Aug 3, 2012

FIRST EBOLA GOON AVOID ALL POSTS SPEWING EBLOA SHIT POSTS EVERWHERE
I'm literally retarded
Embracing a high speed train sounds like a short path to a messy death.
Embracing a high speed trans may cause some bruising.

Wizchine
Sep 17, 2007

Television is the retina
of the mind's eye.
Why not go for broke and suggest monorails if you're going to promote a stupid idea?

Maoist Pussy
Feb 12, 2014

by Lowtax

Wizchine posted:

Why not go for broke and suggest monorails if you're going to promote a stupid idea?

I think they just use a scalpel or a laser or something, OP.

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

Wizchine posted:

Why not go for broke and suggest monorails if you're going to promote a stupid idea?

but main street's still all cracked and broken

a star war betamax
Sep 17, 2011

by Lowtax
Gary’s Answer
Never because unlike all those laughably tiny european "nations" our country is huge.. really huge.... you could fit around 100 UK's into the USA. So high speed trollys or whatever just will not cut it around here.

Also we already constructed the interstate system which iis way better in every way up to and including how it lets you sit behind the wheel of a two ton super-advanced machine and speed along of your own volition like a super hero.

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
someone should invent an extra lane on every highway

a star war betamax
Sep 17, 2011

by Lowtax
Gary’s Answer
Here is a cool website for overlaying the outlines of countries on other parts of the world....

http://mapfrappe.com/

I overlaid England over the states.................I'm still laughing about the size ........... :stare:

a star war betamax fucked around with this message at 14:38 on May 31, 2016

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
thetruesize.com gives a significantly larger UK.

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
Charlotte to Detroit is one Great Britain.



Or El Paso to Denver
Or San Francisco to Portland

a star war betamax
Sep 17, 2011

by Lowtax
Gary’s Answer
Wow the british isles stretch ALL THE WAY from Austin to Brownsville...................

skit herre
Mar 24, 2015

Don't do drugs, kids.
Lipstick Apathy
idk I think the US would be cooler if it was trimmed down a bit. Just remove all those useless states in the middle.

a star war betamax
Sep 17, 2011

by Lowtax
Gary’s Answer

skit herre posted:

idk I think the US would be cooler if it was trimmed down a bit. Just remove all those useless states in the middle.

You mean the ones that grow all the food and produce all the oil?

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Germstore posted:

thetruesize.com gives a significantly larger UK.



depends on if theyre correcting for projection differences, etc.

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

8 track betamax posted:

You mean the ones that grow all the food and produce all the oil?

yeah i like my cheap beef so even the empty scrub grass states have something to contribute

i mean i guess like new mexico and nevada and the other desert states are pretty worthless but at least they're pretty and we need them for water rights

skit herre
Mar 24, 2015

Don't do drugs, kids.
Lipstick Apathy

8 track betamax posted:

You mean the ones that grow all the food and produce all the oil?

yeah those fuckers

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

Mange Mite posted:

depends on if theyre correcting for projection differences, etc.

They both do but mapfrappe seems to be more poo poo at it.

its all nice on rice
Nov 12, 2006

Sweet, Salty Goodness.



Buglord
China has high speed railways, and it's kind of a big Country.

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

Pope Mobile posted:

China has high speed railways, and it's kind of a big Country.

Yeah, but the population is concentrated near the coast unlike america where- *shits pants*

tenspott
Aug 1, 2002

by FactsAreUseless

Pope Mobile posted:

China has high speed railways, and it's kind of a big Country.

Well they're more like jets because they FLY OFF THE TRACKS!!

Chikimiki
May 14, 2009

Wizchine posted:

Why not go for broke and suggest monorails if you're going to promote a stupid idea?

Elon Musk already does this.

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

Chikimiki posted:

Elon Musk already does this.

Those are bioshock pneumatic tube things, not monorails.

Maoist Pussy
Feb 12, 2014

by Lowtax

skit herre posted:

idk I think the US would be cooler if it was trimmed down a bit. Just remove all those useless states in the middle.

We need them, for they send their hottest daughters to Hollywood, in tribute.

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro
The last high speed trans we had killed someone with xer car

Raldikuk
Apr 7, 2006

I'm bad with money and I want that meatball!

Germstore posted:

They both do but mapfrappe seems to be more poo poo at it.

Also England and the UK aren't the same entity! The first one is just England.

Immortan
Jun 6, 2015

by Shine
Trump will initiate the bullet train project the same way Hitler initiated the autobahn.

Wall + Bullet Train infrastructure construction = jobs for the fatherland.

MAGA.

The Whole Internet
May 26, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
We'll get trains when the autism voting bloc gains enough clout.

Kirk Vikernes
Apr 26, 2004

Count Goatnackh

When 51%of Americans are unvaccinated, we will get high speed trains.

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naem
May 29, 2011

The Whole Internet posted:

We'll get trains when the autism voting bloc gains enough clout.

https://youtu.be/mjuVVlSgYLc

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