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[-] Egon@hexbear.net 95 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I hate the attitude that professor exhibits. "Well we might've wasted years of work, billions of dollars, millions of man-hours, burned up large stockpiles of limited resources, arrested development of national infrastructure doing something we knew was impossible and in this process we've created absolutely nothing worthwhile, but at least I learned a lot! Gotta look on the bright side!"

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 49 points 10 months ago

If China did the same thing with state resources this dude would have a half chub for the rest of his life

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago

I doubt it, he'd probably find some reason why it was bad us-foreign-policy

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 41 points 10 months ago

I meant the wasting billions of dollars for nothing part

[-] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

He probably feels that way about China's poverty alleviation and rural revitalization programs.

[-] moujikman@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

He was a physics phd with a focus in gravitational waves, never a professor. His phd thesis has 0 citations.

[-] RustCat@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You're right, but I feel like even without the hyperloop, the government (or other rich fucks) would find some way to avoid building a train line. Trying and failing to build a hyperloop was just a convenient excuse.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah for sure, but that's because they're rich dickheads. This guy is just an idiot engineer with his head up his ass going so-true for "knawledge"
He's not into this because of geopolitics, he's just a useful idiot

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