No, China doesn’t count because that would challenge my worldview. I know I’m right, I just haven’t figured out how yet.
huh that's quite an elegant way to put it
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!"
If China did the same thing with state resources this dude would have a half chub for the rest of his life
I doubt it, he'd probably find some reason why it was bad 
I know this is the second time this shit has been posted, but most rail-less nations are not building railroads because they do not have the nessecery capital intensive industry to build railroads, let alone build a poor man's railroad and then redevelop it, because the world is being purposefully choked of development funds by the IMF and World Bank. God forbid demand gets fulfilled.
I do not understand how you can seriously look at china and go “Nothing but terrible economic choices here 
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because you believe that everything china does is a lie or is a scam somehow even though all of that is true about your own country.
honestly just thinking about it, megachurches and fucking mlms are fucking legitimate things to do here and we're pointing fingers at china for being sneaky and corrupt
Lol, high-speed rail in the US is a joke. California's HSR program started in 1996 and hasn't produced anything substantial in nearly 30 years. They might be able to get 1/3 of Phase 1 into operation by 2030. It's not even in discussion unless it's bundled with some kind of meme shit like depressurized train tunnels and eliminating safety measures.
In China, Deng started the Chinese HSR program around the same time and went from virtually none to being the world leader in kilometers of HSR with ~45,000 Km of operational HSR. To put that into perspective, that's double the rest of the world combined. In fact, China has more HSR in construction than the rest of the world has active HSR today.
Paragon of poor economic choices
"I mean its economics 101! If you always actually complete things instead of just throwing money at rich assholes, eventually you're gonna run out of projects that need doing. And where is your economy going to be then? That's right 
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throwing money at rich people is good as long as it's in the form of coins moving at several kilometers per second
This guy's Twitter is the definition of bazinga: just endless posts of how everything can be solved with cool magic future tech. I'm shocked he actually admitted the Hyperloop is a failure.
He didn't admit that it's a failure, just that they failed. They "got close." The hyperloop cannot fail, it can only be failed
The vacuum train thing is honestly a waste and is incredibly dangerous, but the fact that China has progressed further than Musk at the testing phase, all the while improving their public train transportation network to be the best in the world, is just 
I wonder if you could do one purely for cargo on a limited scale the way pneumatic tube systems used to work in office buildings?
I was so disappointed when I found out a lot of the old office buildings in my city had those tubes and they tore them all out
I always wanted to send something in a tube and I never got a chance
I wonder if you could even get tubes installed nowadays. You would probably have to spin up a bespoke company to install them, hiring a bunch of people who've never done it before and training as you go, and then everyone would lose their job at the end of the process.
Just like building railcars in the US.
"My tech evangelism job failed so now please buy my story as book, streaming show, or straight-to-streaming movie about the wacky inner workings of Hyperloop!"
usians are the most propagandized people on earth
I know they mean it was all done domestically but I still think the use of the word homemade is funny.
Just some random Chinese bros hanging out in their garage tinkering with their maglev hypertrain.
but don't you know, the Chinese still live under Mao Zedong thought , they still have those makeshift backyard furnaces and push trains, when they don't have enough coal 
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Fucking lmao. TechBro-Nerd shit to the max. Get rekt.
If anyone can prove me wrong and build a viable vacuum train, it'll be CRCC.
Phd. in standing in front of money printer go brrr.
On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
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