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Re:Netherlands National Airline Encourages People Not to Fly by punnerud on Friday July 05, 2019 @05:57AM (#20361228)
Super simple idea on how transportation should work:

https://youtu.be/zpkmGV9a6V0

https://youtu.be/GlBOqM99q5g

If we could change between cars, buses, trains, boats at speed; do we need plains? No stops and full speed all the way.

(Will try to make more complexed models and visualize between boats, buses, trains.. But the main idea is the same)

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Re:Netherlands National Airline Encourages People Not to Fly by icebraining on Friday July 05, 2019 @10:32AM (#20362781)
A decade ago, there was a Chinese proposal for a non-stop bullet train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Ig19gYP9o

I don't think anything came out of that, but it's a cute idea, especially for high-speed stuff.

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Re:Netherlands National Airline Encourages People Not to Fly by ojm on Friday July 05, 2019 @06:05AM (#20361271)
Don’t think changing between cars, buses, trains or boats at speed will make me stop using plains (sp).

But then again, crossing the Pacific or getting anywhere in the world from Australia requires some serious distance, unlike many European flights.

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Re:Netherlands National Airline Encourages People Not to Fly by punnerud on Friday July 05, 2019 @06:10AM (#20361289)
Crossing the Pacific will probably not work in a long time without one extremely long tunnel. But for a lot of 1-2hour flights and transportation with cars. With highspeed train maybe also 2-6 hour plain flights. Do the math, it can compete on time.
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Re:Netherlands National Airline Encourages People Not to Fly by ant6n on Friday July 05, 2019 @10:51AM (#20362922)
The Bering straight is not very wide.
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