"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crappiest generation..."

Re:"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crapp... by pw0ncakes on Saturday April 10, 2010 @03:24PM (#1255540)

The awesomeness of air travel has faded into the background and now we see the shittiness of service, the high prices, and the cramped seats.

Airplanes are still amazing technology, but they're wrong for most of their uses. High-speed rail makes more sense for mid-distance travel. At 300 mph, I'd even consider using it for New York to California-- much prettier, and not dependent on a fuel that will be very expensive in 10-20 years.

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Re:"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crapp... by jacquesm on Saturday April 10, 2010 @04:50PM (#1255668)

There seems to be some movement on high speed rail in the states.

It's funny, it's the one country on the planet that would really benefit from doing it and yet they're really late to the party.

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Re:"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crapp... by eru on Sunday April 11, 2010 @08:06PM (#1257988)

I don't know. High speed rail makes a lot of sense for dense countries. For countries with a lot of empty space in between, airplanes start to look relatively better.

(Fast rail may still be the way to go for NY to California, who knows. It is definitely viable inside the sprawls, like the East Coast or the West Coast.)

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Re:"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crapp... by jzycrzy on Monday April 12, 2010 @05:18AM (#1258748)

From a worst-case-scenario perspective rail is great. Imagine: When all that expensive fuel goes away (bc of war, resource depletion, etc) and all we're left with is crappy old coal. If we have rail all over the country, we will still be able to plop some coal steam engine choo-choos on that rail and send food/water into major city centers so people don't starve.

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