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Re:Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Becomes Reality as Agreements Secur... by seszett on Monday June 08, 2015 @10:37AM (#9679323)
Where are you looking for these data? The longest link in France is probably Brussels-Montpellier, which is about 850 km. Paris-Nice might be longer than that, though it's very slow after Marseille.

There used to be a slow Quimper-Vintimille journey that was more than 1000 km, but it's been significantly shortened since then.

Your numbers show you have no conception of the distances involved in Europe. Thinking that the longest train link in France, a country that's 1000 km wide and 1000 km high, is 100 km long is completely ridiculous.

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Re:Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Becomes Reality as Agreements Secur... by IanCal on Monday June 08, 2015 @10:50AM (#9679413)
> Thinking that the longest train link in France, a country that's 1000 km wide and 1000 km high, is 100 km long is completely ridiculous.

They do specifically mention "high speed" train lines.

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Re:Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Becomes Reality as Agreements Secur... by seszett on Monday June 08, 2015 @10:55AM (#9679449)
Well I'm talking about high speed train lines, I only included Quimper-Vintimille for comparison.

Even if you somehow counted only >300km/h as high-speed, then the LGV Est is a bit more than 300 km long and rated at 320 km/h. I suspect a 100 km-long high-speed line would not even be competitive against cars, except maybe in dense urban areas where car traffic is often slow.

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Re:Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Becomes Reality as Agreements Secur... by mikeash on Monday June 08, 2015 @10:52AM (#9679430)
So what? France has an extensive high-speed rail network which even a cursory glance would reveal if one wasn't already aware.
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Re:Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Becomes Reality as Agreements Secur... by IanCal on Monday June 08, 2015 @11:01AM (#9679509)
People seemed to be talking rather angrily at each other without actually reading what they said.

> So what?

Call me old fashioned, but I think it's worth responding to what's actually been said.

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Re:Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Becomes Reality as Agreements Secur... by mikeash on Monday June 08, 2015 @11:07AM (#9679548)
What was said up there was that the longest high-speed rail link in France is 106km long. This is obviously absurd and wrong, which even the most cursory investigation would reveal.

What did I fail to read, exactly? Is it that seszett didn't explicitly specify "high speed" in that one sentence? As I said in my reply, so what? The overall point, that the 106km figure is ridiculous, stands regardless.

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