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DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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I'm skeptical about their claims for flying range and other things, FAA certified for what? An experimental craft? It has a very long claimed range when compared to the Jetson1 which has about a 20-to-30-minute endurance and is much lighter that this contraption.

In any case you would need a driver's license and a pilot's license to operate it, or it would be self-flying which might be safer than self-driving.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
DIY-HP-LED said:
I'm skeptical about their claims for flying range and other things, FAA certified for what? An experimental craft? It has a very long claimed range when compared to the Jetson1 which has about a 20-to-30-minute endurance and is much lighter that this contraption.

In any case you would need a driver's license and a pilot's license to operate it, or it would be self-flying which might be safer than self-driving.
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since they cannot yet sort machine driving on two axes, doing it in three is bound to lead to grief. The potential for situations requiring rapid judgment is not geometric but combinatorial.

Maybe the way to proceed is to perfect a one-axis system, say for [light] rail.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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cannabineer said:
since they cannot yet sort machine driving on two axes, doing it in three is bound to lead to grief. The potential for situations requiring rapid judgment is not geometric but combinatorial.

Maybe the way to proceed is to perfect a one-axis system, say for [light] rail.
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a national rail system would save money and lives, and pollute less than ice vehicles....but it would have to go EVERYWHERE at a fraction of the cost of flying...good luck with that shit....Amtrak didn't do so well.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Roger A. Shrubber said:
a national rail system would save money and lives, and pollute less than ice vehicles....but it would have to go EVERYWHERE at a fraction of the cost of flying...good luck with that shit....Amtrak didn't do so well.
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The SF Bay Area is a study in the massive investment light rail would require. It is large, awkwardly shaped, and the terrain/ water barriers are severe. Getting from Los Altos to
Alameda in under an hour would require a hellacious amount of track, and the leveling of thousands of multimillion-dollar residences. It’s a cadmium-plated bitch.

European cities planned public transit before the car became ubiquitous. It’s different. I could go anywhere in Vienna with a multirail pass.

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DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
a national rail system would save money and lives, and pollute less than ice vehicles....but it would have to go EVERYWHERE at a fraction of the cost of flying...good luck with that shit....Amtrak didn't do so well.
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For shorter trips and between large population centers, a highspeed corridor down the east coast from Boston to Washington via New York would work and be faster than a plane. Trains are like ocean liners they can't compete with planes for long haul, but highspeed rail is another matter for shorter routes with dense travel like up and down the east and west coasts cities of America.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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DIY-HP-LED said:
For shorter trips and between large population centers, a highspeed corridor down the east coast from Boston to Washington via New York would work and be faster than a plane. Trains are like ocean liners they can't compete with planes for long haul, but highspeed rail is another matter for shorter routes with dense travel like up and down the east and west coasts cities of America.
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yeah, but the thing is, existing rail lines are not up to high speed travel, and don't go to any convenient places in most cities. They built the railroad in this country to haul cattle, produce, industrial materials and products...In most cities the rail road goes through the part of town with factories, founderies, meat packing plants...
Building new lines that go to useful places would be an expensive and complicated matter, and would require extensive use of public domain to seize necessary property, which would kick off immediate and drawn out legal battles...
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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https://www.thedrive.com/news/worlds-largest-gas-station-is-a-new-buc-ees-with-120-pumps
this is about ten miles from my house. It's already a fucking infuriating area, with thousands of tourist getting on and off the interstate daily.
Now we have this...abomination, AND the Cherokee indians are in on the deal, they're going to build an Entertainment zone next to buckies, with waterslides, mini golf, go carts, maybe even concert venues, and, if they can finagle it through somehow, a casino.
Shit like that makes it harder for me to take them seriously when they talk about sacred tribal things...They're just capitalist of a different skin tone.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
DIY-HP-LED said:
For shorter trips and between large population centers, a highspeed corridor down the east coast from Boston to Washington via New York would work and be faster than a plane. Trains are like ocean liners they can't compete with planes for long haul, but highspeed rail is another matter for shorter routes with dense travel like up and down the east and west coasts cities of America.
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That would make sense if it connected from one developed surface rail system (like the combined subway and tram networks in European cities) to another. That’s what’s wrong with California’s bullet train: the termini are big parking lots. An Uber costs orders of magnitude more than a tram would.

And fuck a bus. There are buses here but with avg. 2 hours between ones running the same route. In Vienna, waiting 10 minutes was the exception and not the rule.

Electric autonomous share cars might work, but I don’t expect to see reasonable transit costs in my lifetime.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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cannabineer said:
That would make sense if it connected from one developed surface rail system (like the combined subway and tram networks in European cities) to another. That’s what’s wrong with California’s bullet train: the termini are big parking lots. An Uber costs orders of magnitude more than a tram would.

And fuck a bus. There are buses here but with avg. 2 hours between ones running the same route. In Vienna, waiting 10 minutes was the exception and not the rule.

Electric autonomous share cars might work, but I don’t expect to see reasonable transit costs in my lifetime.
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The only time i've ever had to use public transport much was when i lived in Tampa, in the early 90s, and the bus system there was surprisingly good.
you could go all over town for a couple of bucks, they ran at least every 30 minutes in the daytime, i never waited more than 45 minutes on the bus at night, and about half the routes ran all night, the ones serving industrial areas that ran a lot of night shifts.
I think it was 50 cents to get on, a transfer was a dime, and you could use it to get back on the same bus going home if you wanted, so round trip anywhere was 60 cents, maybe up to a dollar if you wanted to go all way across town, you'd have to transfer a couple of times.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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https://apnews.com/article/australia-psychedelics-treatment-56e3aa90b3d64318d1cb57507c7bf87b

Well, good on Australia for giving it a try, BUT...$6,600 for a hit of Ecstasy?...WTF is that?
I've never bought any, but i've had poor ass friends GIVE it to me for free....so there's no fucking way it cost more than $10 to 20 bucks in the US, cause the motherfuckers who GAVE it to me never have more than that in their pockets at one time.
That REEKS of pharma involvement...
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
https://apnews.com/article/australia-psychedelics-treatment-56e3aa90b3d64318d1cb57507c7bf87b

Well, good on Australia for giving it a try, BUT...$6,600 for a hit of Ecstasy?...WTF is that?
I've never bought any, but i've had poor ass friends GIVE it to me for free....so there's no fucking way it cost more than $10 to 20 bucks in the US, cause the motherfuckers who GAVE it to me never have more than that in their pockets at one time.
That REEKS of pharma involvement...
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Psychiatrists should make a packet out of that. Wonder if Private health insurance covers it?
 
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