As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new transport system (2017)

Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new ... by toufiqbarhamov on Saturday December 22, 2018 @06:47PM (#18743231)

Security lines are shorter because you can’t fly a train full of jet fuel into a pair of skyscrapers.

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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new ... by ams6110 on Saturday December 22, 2018 @06:51PM (#18743252)

You can't do that anymore with commercial aircraft either, since they started looking the cockpit door, yet we still act like every passenger is likely to try it.

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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new ... by soheil on Saturday December 22, 2018 @06:52PM (#18743258)

Sure you can't do that exact thing but who would have thought of flying planes into skyscrapers before 9/11 except a few crazies anyway? We didn't exactly have a pandemic of people flying planes into skyscrapers for decades prior.

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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new ... by toufiqbarhamov on Saturday December 22, 2018 @07:11PM (#18743367)

Sure you can't do that exact thing but who would have thought of flying planes into skyscrapers before 9/11 except a few crazies anyway?

Tom Clancy? In ‘Debt of Honor’ it’s a major plot-point after all. The issue here is not that making a train into a cruise missile is hard to imagine, it’s actually impossible. You can attack the train, or use the train to attack a station or something close to the tracks, and that’s it. It’s also a purely kinetic event, rather than adding the complexity of so much fuel.

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