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real talk trains are way cooler than planes. also way more comfortable
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Dial-a-Dog posted:Yeah I can see how something that moves in two dimensions and is literally on rails could be more complicated than flying an airplane, makes sense Here's what you sound like: "I admit I know very little about this yet I am convinced my opinion is correct!" Commercial airliners are mostly flown by autopilot. The trickiest part is take off and landing and dealing with weather. Meanwhile on a train if you aren't paying attention to the bunching of the cars based on the incline of the slope and the weight of each car and all this other crap to be paying attention to with nowhere near the instrumentation a plane has, suddenly when you try to brake the train derails instead. e: I mean really it's like "oh you're on a hill let us tell you how to handle that:"   e: Obviously things could be made safer and better and I'm sure computers can help but just saying it's not as simple as your LEGO train at home. It's more complicated than just 'hit the brakes' because there's 50 cars each weighing a few tons behind you that don't have independent braking systems. Roylicious fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Sep 29, 2016 |
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The station should have obeyed the crossing signal, at that speed by the time the conductor sees you stopping distance is well past you. No need for safety reform, let the transit authorities self-regulate and their ones who don't regulate their speed will go out of business when all their trains and stations are totaled.
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Roylicious posted:Here's what you sound like: I did forget to think about the treacherous terrain between Hoboken and Manhattan and the ever changing configurations of a commuter train you're right
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Sep 29, 2016 19:16
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this is a very compelling debate about trains please, continue
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Roylicious posted:Here's what you sound like: Yes good thing planes need no calculations for weight, fuel, windspeed etc at all
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Sep 29, 2016 19:19
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 Please follow these instructions to get on top of the hill you're willing to die on
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Sep 29, 2016 19:22
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Roylicious posted:Here's what you sound like: A train literally has two functions - going forwards and going backwards. Lets compare a controller for a scale model train with a RC for a scale model airplane:   versus  
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somebody please come up with a tasteful and classy joke about train disasters related to 'running a train', specifically in reference to continuous coitus with somebody's mother
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935 posted:A train literally has two functions - going forwards and going backwards. Lets compare a controller for a scale model train with a RC for a scale model airplane: This is dumber than anything I posted for sure. Vitamin Me posted:Yes good thing planes need no calculations for weight, fuel, windspeed etc at all Again, take off and landing are the hardest parts and the other 98% of the flight is cruising. Dial-a-Dog posted:I did forget to think about the treacherous terrain between Hoboken and Manhattan and the ever changing configurations of a commuter train you're right I'm just trying to explain why we can almost be at self driving cars yet trains are still run manually by engineers a lot of the time. Obviously smaller commuter lines can (and have been in many places) be largely automated.
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this is why we can't have GBS
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if you put wings on a train and put that on a conveyor belt, would it be able to stop before injuring hundreds in New Jersey?
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Parallax Scroll posted:it crashed? must have been running windows
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*sips caramel machiatto*
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and ArbitraryC posted:Ruby off Rails are some pretty good jokes. Thank you, goons
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Sep 29, 2016 19:48
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Lucky it wasn't one of those trains carrying nuclear warheads in a Slav country. Imagine if two of those collided.
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Sep 29, 2016 19:49
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if you put a train on a treadmill, will it derail into a hoboken station injuring hundreds?
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that's a really great question, in my opinion
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Sep 29, 2016 19:53
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hmmm.... "trains"
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they should put parachutes on each end of the train to slow it down like they do for drag racing cars. it wouldn't help but it would make the carnage afterwards look prettier, maybe entertain the kids a little as their lungs fill with blood
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ROFLburger posted:this is a very compelling debate about trains autism reigns
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Roylicious posted:I'm just trying to explain why we can almost be at self driving cars yet trains are still run manually by engineers a lot of the time. Obviously smaller commuter lines can (and have been in many places) be largely automated.
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Alereon posted:the job is literally so simple and boring that for a hundred years the primary safety issue has been keeping the operator from falling asleep Welp you're just wrong idk what else to say. I'm not even involved with engineering or trains and I know that's wrong. Just google 'train handling*' and see engineers talking about it. * 
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Planes, Trains, and Aspergian Squeals
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Bolywood reenactment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM1O4JkHK_I
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I get very anxious when trains behave unpredictably.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHkKJfcBXcw
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Hopefully this clears things up !
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unpacked robinhood posted:Hopefully this clears things up ! More like crashes into the goldmine
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unpacked robinhood posted:Hopefully this clears things up ! but how does time factor into this
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train lives matter
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Sep 29, 2016 20:57
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I'm a train conductor ask me anything
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Semi-automatic assault train kills; deadlier than 9/11 planes? Islam.
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Im kinda jealous, the last time we had a huge train accident in France the rear end in a top hat fuckers from the banlieues came immediately to loot the victims and I don't think it's happening in Hoboken
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Sep 29, 2016 21:07
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Fixed that for you - 
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Sep 29, 2016 21:07
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Dayum! Looks like somebody zigged when they should have neither zigged nor zagged, but instead probably just stayed on the tracks. They should add that to those fancy train pilot instructions posted earlier.
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You have to watch Blaine all the time, Blaine is a pain, and that is the truth. I'm pretty sure that Blaine is dangerous, and that is the truth.
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