I’d imagine maybe larger countries would have more than one stop, but the issue is every time the maglev makes a stop it needs to slow down and speed up again and that adds up over time. I think that’s a big issue with high speed trains nowadays in certain regions. The train is at maximum allowed speed by infrastructure about 40% of the time because it stops too often.

It would be a shame if it became impractical due to being too slow so people would take the plane instead. If you look at the Japanese Shinkansen stops are very well spaced, for instance, Tokio-Nagoya or Osaka-Hiroshima with no stops in betwen. That’s 350 ish km with no stops.

Oh yeah no issues from me there. I was answering the original question of what maglev tech is for. Maglev only makes sense for very long distances.

Speed. High speed trains clock in at 300 km/h, whereas maglev takes you to 600 km/h.

I agree with the above commenter, the EU needs to streamline passenger rights and international connections first, like they did for airtravel, but once that is taken care of, the next step is connecting European capitals on high speed maglev with very few stops.

To give you a sense of what such a transportation system could achieve, you could go from Lisbon to Kiev in 6 hours and a half at 600 km/h. If capitals served as country maglev hubs, we could do away with intra European flights altogether and cut a significant amount of flights to outside of Europe by concentrating the departures.

You could then have a hierarchy of sorts where maglev serves traveling between capitals, high speed between major cities within countries, regional between regions of smaller sparsely populated towns and local trains within cities or between close cities. Ideally if a passenger wanted to travel from a small town into another small town 3000 km away, the service should book all the appropriate hierarchy changes in one ticket.

The issue is that the line would have to be pretty much straight or have very shallow curves, due to the speed, so it would take a TON of land buying. That’s complicated enough as it is without even considering the NIMBYs.

Wow the US wants to do what ? A security force made of Palestinians and uh… foreigners, to oppress their own people and protect the settlers under a UN mandate and IOF raids ?

Wow. That is outstandingly stupid. Is the US using the same guys responsible for what happened in Afghanistan to dictate foreign policy again ? I think I’m starting to see what happened there.

They are motivating so many people to join Hamas right now, this conflict will last forever.

Where did you come from, where did you go, where did you come from Genocide Joe ?

Why would they be conservative ? I do agree with you that this thread is full of people trying to justify the unjustifiable, but let me remind you the party in power providing its full unquestionable support for Israel is the Democrat party, spearheaded by Biden, a Democrat president, who is very, very happy and supportive with all this. So being a douche is a bit all over the place if you ask me. You can’t necessarily point at douchebaggery and instantly realize it’s conservative.

Clickbait titled articles often do but purposefully obscure the topic. A title should inform the reader of the content, such as “Polish truck drivers protest EU war exemptions for Ukraine”.

Instead, click bait articles go for sensationalist non informative titles, like “You won’t BELIEVE what Polish truck drivers have done by the border to Ukraine!!!”

They are mad because of the economic exemptions the EU gave Ukraine to support the war has hurt their profits. Ukrainian truck drivers are making the best of it and taking deals in Europe that are normally more expensive and Ukrainians have no access to.

Fuck that clickbait. Why do journalists feel the need to continue this annoying practice ?

I think in this context no ship would ever approach nose-to-nose. That’s just for the viewers to see. I’d wager no two ships would come into less than around 1-5 km of each other if they weren’t lining up flight paths for shuttles or docking. It’s not like they need to “stand up” next to each other and “talk”.

They would probably have formations they would assume while in transit or stopped, so it would probably be normal to cross paths with a formation flying upside down or in a perpendicular axis.

In case of just meeting and talking, they’d probably do it from wherever they happen to be, very far from each other, flying towards different destinations.

Oh right yeah the colonial times. I guess when i was thinking about historical Britain i was thinking about celtic/roman/viking/medieval times. I tend to gloss over colonial times, i find that part of history not to be very appealing to me, but yeah, makes sense. Lots of black people because of the slave trade.

I picked east, i could’ve picked west, or south sure. No reason in particular.

Ergo, vis-a-vis, cogito ergo sunt, per se. Exempli gratia, id est, quod erat demonstratum. Errare humanum est, carpe diem et requiescat in pace. In vinum veritas, semper fidelis, et pluribus unum.

I cast you away demon, with my fancy latin words.

I’m no Briton and i just know a few bits here and there of British history, but isn’t the UK a traditionally mostly white country ?

I’m guessing half of say, Norwegians, also can’t name a black Norwegian historical figure either. I’m betting it’s even more than that and they’re the most immediate neighbors of the UK.

I’m not saying they’re not important to be remembered, or that there weren’t black people in Europe since the Roman times, here and there, but statistically speaking, black people were the overwhelming minority.

I can guarantee you that is never going to happen. You ban VPNs and all the companies R&D departments will leave. A VPN is an essential part of corporate data infrastructure. If a company is unable to secure intellectual property, it will move it elsewhere, leaving only sales and manufacturing, at best.

And since France is in Schengen, I’m sure other European countries would love to get those corporate taxes for themselves.

I’m sorry you feel that way.

You’re showing me an average with the entire population of Turkey and the Balcans. Look better at your data, please. Now consider where the majority of migrants are going and are being expected. It is not a genuine source of comparison. It’s closer to 40%. Besides, like i also mentioned, it’s not just higher education.

I’m not saying they can’t be or shouldn’t beintegrated. What I’m saying is that their existence will not affect the demographic crisis in any meaningful way. They won’t have kids, just as the locals. I’ve seen it happen. If we’re saving people, we’re saving people, but let’s not pretend it’s because of the population crisis, because that is irrelevant to the problem

The large volume of applications of economic refugees made it so since 2015 the the education requirements are essentially waived. There are no wars in Morocco, for instance, but i personally know of refugees that hid their nationality to enter as war refugees. This is very common.

I’m not against immigration but it’s no solution. You’re in Europe. You’re trying to replace a workforce that has free education, in a place with high quality education infrastructure, therefore most of them have bachelors and probably at least one or more masters degrees, with essentially illiterate (and i mean this with all due respect) people from a completely different culture who are not prepared to do anything remotely useful for at least 10 years, probably more.

I’ve literally had migrant refugees from Lebanon, Somalia, Eritrea, Morocco and such as flatmates in Brussels. Some of them are my close friends. They are not remotely prepared to take over 90% of European jobs. You either need social skills, labor skills, language skills or technical skills which they simply do not have. If i was in their shoes, it would take me decades to catch up to how Europeans work.

The migrants come here for what ? Uber eats ? How are they supposed to support themselves ? With government integration money we don’t have available ? But say we figure it out and they live and then they will have kids one day. Those kids will behave exactly like the local population. They will go to University, they will be highly qualified, they will be socially adapted to the place, culture and language and, they will also not have kids, just like the locals. So which problem did these migrants solve then ?

So the issue here isn’t that we lack people in Europe. It’s that our economic doctrine is deficient. We need to change the doctrine, not the people. Immigration will not solve this problem, it will perpetuate it. Young people not having kids is an economic issue that will still happen whether you have a European young person there or a Iraqi young person there. You can’t simply transplant a young couple from a country with very high birth rates in a totally different part of the world, subjected to an entirely different set of circumstances and expect them to be the same in Europe. That’s not how this works.

It’s crazy. I wonder if future generations of Jews will ever be ashamed of this permanent chapter in Jewish history?

Zionism will never be forgotten. Whatever happens to Israel and Palestine, this will be a defining moment in the history of Jews, long after present day Jews are gone.

Do you think a few hundred years from now their descendants will be taught in school about how many Palestinians were massacred in the name of Judaism and will feel shame ? Will Netanyahu be despised as Hitler or slavers are today ? Do you think they will make statues and publish government public apologies about their “dark past”, sorta like Germany does about the Nazi era ?

The present may forget, but the future never will.

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