Re:US Army's Land Trains (2020)
by Fomite on Monday May 16, 2022 @08:00PM
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Because it's one of those classic "The story is about what happens when we accept the conceit of the setting" sci-fi approaches. It's a train, because there's exploration to be done around what happens on a journey that is both linear and fixed.
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> It's a train, because there's exploration to be done around what happens on a journey that is both linear and fixed.
Eh, they could have done that with a shelter built in a tunnel or something like that. But that would have been boring; it's a train because trains are cool. And they could have had the train circling a city or even continent, but they made it circumnavigate the world instead because that's cooler.