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Re:China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains by breakerbox on Thursday October 03, 2019 @07:42PM (#21153435)
To be honest, I think wind resistance would play a lot bigger factor than people give it credit for since its force scales nonlinearly with velocity.

At 1000 or even just 600 km/h, wind resistance would do some damage just by letting off the accelerator.

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