The idea where building HSR everywhere will stop people from buying/driving cars, or using existing modes of transportation. Is not connected to reality. At least not in my experience of seeing HSR being built everywhere.

Take China for example. They have built the most extensive HSR network in the world. They go almost anywhere in China. Has it stopped people there from buying or driving cars? No, in fact China is the worlds largest car market. They literally buy more cars than any other country. I lived there for tens years and trust me, everyone that can afford to buy a car does. I had to drive from Suzhou to Shanghai many, many times for work. There is an HSR between the two but there was always traffic both ways. The highways were full of people driving instead of taking the HSR. Not because it’s cheaper or faster but because it’s more comfortable and convenient than HSR. Not to mention the fact that so few people use all the HSR they’ve built, that it loses hundreds of billions per year. It’s such a boondoggle that multiple heads of HSR in China have committed suicide. For longer trips most people prefer to take a plane and for shorter trips they more often than not drive. Also, they still have normal and cheaper trains which poorer locals usually take because they can’t afford to take the HSR.

That’s what I saw in China. You can confirm it all with casual research on the topic. I don’t think building HSR everywhere is the solution people think it is. At least that has not been the case for China. I doubt it would be much different elsewhere.

“All I said was that we well might fail”. That sentence let me know how you think. People that think like that fail immediately since they don’t want to even try. In fact that type of thinking is lower than failure, since failure actually involves trying first.

I’m glad they are trying to build hyperloop. Whether it fails or not. At least we are trying something new. Not rehashing the accomplishments of previous generations.

You sound like the people in the 1800s that thought if you traveled faster than 100mph you’d go crazy. We currently live in a boring version of what the world used to be. People used to get excited about new technology and didn’t care what it took to make real progress and move humanity forward. Now, we have people like you who are focused on replicating what is, rather than thinking about what could be. We seem to be devolving as a species. You’re a perfect example of that. As are all the rest of your downvoting friends.

Good thing the Japanese didn’t think like you in 1964 or we wouldn’t have HSR either….

You forgot potentially much faster, better for the environment a leap forward in technology. Yeah, that would suck. Much better to keep copy pasting….🤡

I’d rather see governments spend money on getting this working than to continue implementing technology from the 60s(HSR). It’s about time the world moved forward with a new idea for transportation, rather than taking the china approach of copy pasting to create a massive boondoggle like they did with HSR there.

Except those that make inventions.

I feel sorry for people with zero imagination who have no option but to copy from creative people. Sad, pathetic and embarrassing.

No. Before 1994 there were no smartphones. Someone had to have the idea for something new. Before 1986 no one thought to put a touchscreen in a car. Now they all have them. It’s as if the world has become a boring copy paste version of what it used to be. Where everyone was trying to do something new instead of what everyone else was doing.

Typical Chinese version of something. Copy paste then copy paste some more. Pathetic and embarrassing.

Again, the US made the first stealth aircraft. No one made a stealth aircraft before the US. That's not my opinion. It's a fact. Deal with it.

Pyotr Ufimtsev wrote papers on the concept of stealth that were translated to English in the 60s and helped the US develop the first stealth aircraft. He never built one himself.

The Nazi plane had stealth characteristics but was not stealth. Also, only one was ever made and it crashed. It had so many problems the nazis decided not to build them. It didn't work.

Which again confirms what I said earlier. The US produced the first stealth aircraft in world history and everyone else has been copying the US ever since. Facts. Deal with it hater lol

I find it funny that whenever copying is brought up, people like you will bring up the fact that the US copied 100 years ago. Before international IP and patent regulations were implemented. Yes, everyone copied from everyone a long time ago. Which is why international IP and patent protections were established to stop that from happening.

Should the world continue to allow theft or should the world continue the progress it's made in stopping theft? I would say the world is better with less theft but if you think stealing should be allowed, that's your opinion. I just hope you don't teach that to your children if you have any...

EDIT: People that downvote a post that is anti-theft are probably thieves. You must all work at one of those online scam centers or steal from tourists just to survive. Either way, you're all pathetic excuses for human beings. I hope you eventually lose more than you steal or end up in prison with the rest of the evil people of the world.

First stealth aircraft was the F-117 in 1981. The first Russian stealth jet flew in 2010. If it was really a Russian idea, why did it take them almost 30 years after the US to make one?

Unless you're the US and come up with a solution that is not copied from elsewhere. That everyone else then copies because of "converged evolution"....

The ones I see look like the F-22 and F-35. Similar to what the Chinese did to make the J-31. Which is also a copy of the F-35 but with horrible engines.

How could they study 7 different 5 gen designs? There aren't 7 total 5gen designs currently active in the entire world.

The US has the most with the B-2, F-22 and F-35. Russia has one but has not started producing them in large numbers. China has the J-20 which isn't really a 5gen and the J-31 which is also not a 5gen jet.

So which 7 5gen were studied? Since there aren't 7 5gen jets in the whole world? Also, why copy when you can make your own design? It is possible to design 5gen craft without copying. The US does it....

Again, in regards to infrastructure the US was one of the first countries in the world to build things like subway, highways, internet etc. they built it all so long ago that now a lot of it needs to be repaired. That doesn’t mean they don’t have infrastructure in place.

Of course some countries are only now building these types of infrastructure(over 100 years after the US did) so they look new while the ones in the US look older because they are.

That doesn’t stop people from countries like India and China immigrating to the U.S. in massive numbers.

That was my point too. America does everything first and then everyone else follows along. Which is strange since the same countries claim to be anti-America but spend their time and money copying the US.

Whether it's Chinese, Russian or Indian. All the 5th-gen aircraft look like rip-offs of US designs. Funny how these countries can seem anti-US but spend so much time and money replicating US IP and technology.

I wonder if we'll ever see a time when another country does something new which hasn't been available in the US for decades. Or if we'll continue to live in a world where all countries continue to "follow the leader" by re-hashing something the US did already.

Australia can drop their emissions by 100% and it would make little difference if top polluters like China and India keep pumping out record amounts of air and plastic pollution every year.

Why focus on the countries that produce the least amount of pollution while ignoring the ones that produce the most? It has to be the most counterproductive approach to stopping a problem in world history. We live in 🤡world.