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 Jan 15 2006, 05:12 AM
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 Boss, my code's compiling (xkcd)  Group: Admins Posts: 10,440 Joined: 19-September 01 Member No.: 1   |
Watch this Chinese train travel at 500 km/h: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=29...878713&q=maglev
More about it here: http://www.gluckman.com/Maglev.html --------------------    Things that I don't suck at: Photography (flickr, JPG Mag), "Don't bail; the best gold is at the bottom of barrels of crap!" -Randy Pausch I have people-skills goddamnit! What is wrong with you people!!! | www.skyrill.com |
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Jan 15 2006, 06:16 AM
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 Duck and Cover  Group: ++Member Posts: 576 Joined: 17-June 04 Member No.: 1,420  |
holy crap, 500 kmh? thats 320 mph!!! the fastest street legal car can only do 252
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Jan 15 2006, 05:06 PM
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 SuperNova II Member  Group: Moderators Posts: 1,197 Joined: 19-November 03 Member No.: 694   Bubble Trouble Champion! Blackjack 2 Champion! |
i heard about this some time ago when it was still in the early stages of testing; but i thought Germany was doing the testing?
Pretty damn cool! |
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Jan 15 2006, 07:08 PM
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 Elite III Member Group: ++Member Posts: 536 Joined: 12-September 04 Member No.: 1,707   Triple Tetris Champion! |
Very Nice! Reminds me a little of the Japanese Bullet Trains. I'd be a little afraid to ride on one of those personally, if it's going at such a high speed it'd seem that it would have a high chance of derailing.
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Jan 15 2006, 11:26 PM
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QUOTE(glitch @ Jan 15 2006, 07:08 PM)  Very Nice! Reminds me a little of the Japanese Bullet Trains. I'd be a little afraid to ride on one of those personally, if it's going at such a high speed it'd seem that it would have a high chance of derailing. theres no rails period, its all magnets unless somehow it losses power, theres no way to get the train off the "rail" -------------------- |
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Jan 17 2006, 11:53 AM
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 Legendary Group: ++Member Posts: 601 Joined: 26-March 04 Member No.: 895  Mili and Tary HG Champion! Ski Champion! Space Invaders Champion! |
I want to ride one now, So when are they gonna work on Gauss Rifles/Rail Guns?
Im not a violent person i think it would help in shooting down metors that would hit our planet its not just a bogus idea! 
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Jan 18 2006, 11:08 PM
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 Sarcastic Group: ++Member Posts: 224 Joined: 12-August 04 From: London Member No.: 1,584 |
wouldnt it just take some electrical disturbance from outside of the train to mess around with the magnetic field?... like some guy on a cell phone.
shame about it not having rails, this baby + a squirell on the tracks = nuclear . This post has been edited by madmo: Jan 18 2006, 11:12 PM -------------------- There are 10 kinds of people in this world - Those who understand binary, and those who don't!
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Jan 19 2006, 02:50 AM
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QUOTE(madmo @ Jan 18 2006, 11:08 PM) wouldnt it just take some electrical disturbance from outside of the train to mess around with the magnetic field?... like some guy on a cell phone. shame about it not having rails, this baby + a squirell on the tracks = nuclear . only to the squirell maybe, but i think the squirell is just as dead with any other train trust me, a one kilogram squirell is not not enough to throw the train off the tracks. this train is held on with magnetic field able to hold thousands of tons and accelerate said mass as fast as a one ton sports car. it would take an enourmous amount of energy to throw this thing off, more then with a regular train [of same mass] dont forget these trains have massive amounts of inertia in addition to the energy from the magnetic field. no a cell phone will not mess with the magnetic field. tell me; when u talk on a cell phone, do metal objects fly in your direction? also im sure they took into account anything a person could do on a train when they designed it -------------------- |
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Jan 21 2006, 01:25 AM
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QUOTE(Atomic @ Jan 19 2006, 02:50 AM) no a cell phone will not mess with the magnetic field. tell me; when u talk on a cell phone, do metal objects fly in your direction? also im sure they took into account anything a person could do on a train when they designed it no but would be cool kind of like a game of dodge ball but instead with metal objets just stay claer of the knifes and nails. any way maybe the cell phone could mess with the computers instead i doubt it but. sweet sg1 is on -------------------- There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven,
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Jan 22 2006, 06:10 AM
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Duck and Cover Group: ++Member Posts: 576 Joined: 17-June 04 Member No.: 1,420 |
ok obviously the video was recorded somehow, if the magnetic field was so strong the camera would have been sucked to the floor or what not
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