An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard

Re:An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard by averagewall on Sunday June 18, 2017 @12:26AM (#14578962)

Really? How? Couldn't the train stop if the pressure starts to go up too high? It sounds a bit like saying, a broken rail _anywhere_ in a train network causes a derailment and massive loss of life. Train drivers can't see broken tracks until it's too late to stop.

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Re:An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard by dredmorbius on Sunday June 18, 2017 @12:47AM (#14579016)

1. Pressure.

2. Speed. 1600 km/s is pretty snappy.

Thunderf00t tends to wibble on a bit and repeat repeat himself, but he does make his point.

Relevant bits start about 6m22s.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z48pSwiDLIM

Or at 10m28s in this video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFesa01llk

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Re:An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard by rdtsc on Sunday June 18, 2017 @06:33AM (#14580003)

> 2. Speed. 1600 km/s is pretty snappy

Way too snappy. Surely you meant /h not /s

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Re:An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard by dredmorbius on Sunday June 18, 2017 @10:12AM (#14580702)

Wups, yes. My error.

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Re:An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard by SolarNet on Sunday June 18, 2017 @04:57AM (#14579716)

I'm sorry isn't this the guy that has a creepy obsession with Anita Sarkessian and that associates with ~Nazis~ anti-semitic misogynistic racists.

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Re:An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard by dredmorbius on Sunday June 18, 2017 @10:54PM (#14584329)

He definitely has commented on Sarkeesian, and critiques some elements of feminism, a few of whom richly deserve it. That's not an area I'm particularly interested in, and I've not followed his videos there.

His critiques of poorly-conceived technological concepts, in particular the "Solar Freakin' Roadways" scam, and Hyperloop, strike me as largely on-mark (if repetitious and self-rightous).

I'm not familiar with any Nazi or other associations, though that would be most unfortunate.

RationalWiki addresses some of this:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Thunderf00t

It has no bearing on the technical criticisms addressed above, however.

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Re:An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard by SolarNet on Monday June 19, 2017 @03:23PM (#14589629)

His comments on Anita Sarkeesian are creepy and obsessive. Let alone the fact he blatantly and deceptively edits her videos to make his point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bVqfQvXP2o .

If he's dishonest (not that he's wrong, but that he's dishonest) about basic social studies why should I trust his science? Let alone his experimental results? To be fair he recently disassociated himself from the alt-right ("not") nazis. So there is that at least.

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