Toyota say it’s based on the Greek ‘Charis’, the plural of which is apparently ‘Charites’, so ‘Yarites’ is another possibility.
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Musk: Hyperloop will cost 1/10 the cost of rail to build! Pylons make it super cheap and easy!
Also, apparently: we can’t afford to build a long test track and vacuum tube. It costs more than rail to build and it’s too complicated and expensive to build the test track on pylons.
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It seems to me that the bourgeois passengers may be vulnerable to mass kidnappings…
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That’s an easy mistake to make, but “yer arses” derives from an entirely different degenerate Latin root, “yoranuses”. In their excellent book A Scholar’s Guide to Imaginary Ancient Languages, Gropnik and Spode trace the history this way:
Yoranuses first appears in vernacular Latin around 170AD during the Antonine Plague. Its earliest recorded usage is in an infamous folio entitled The Impossibly True Amorous Adventures of a Legionnaire in Darkest Belgica Secunda which, plague notwithstanding, was a runaway bestseller throughout the Empire.
Yoranuses Is frequently confused with the wholly different word yarususes, which translates as “the smallest and fattest of the Emperor’s piggies”, because of the formal similarities between the two words and their nearly identical declensions. Indeed, it has been a source of great mirth down through the years when weary scholars have put the one in the place of the other.
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But you wouldn’t need tubes to hold the low pressure on mars, the atmosphere is already near vacuum. So why not just use high speed rail there? No other traffic to worry about, or wildlife…
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Hmm
You could (and several people a year do) write a book about Garbage Island’s train situation, and some commuter services are indeed a… well, not a train wreck… but, that’s all in the context of having a relative shitload of lines, and knowing what it looks like for them to run frequently etc. It would only take a light political upheaval for (the middle bit of) Scotland to have pretty excellent public transport within a year, whereas in the US it would also take trillions of dollars and several decades of sustained work.
That’s the political challenge with train services; they’re either working well, hence invisible, or they’re working badly, in which case their nature makes them a magnet for hatred. If your car is bad you just replace it, but if your train line is bad, it sits there in the middle of town, rubbing your face in it until your neighbours can figure out how to put an X next to the word “Labour” which apparently is very difficult for some reason. And of course, sci-fi boondoggles like Hyperloop will always have immaculate reputations because they don’t have to deal with the issues of existing, and we tend to picture what they’d be like if they went all the places I want to go, and I was the only passenger.
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He was caught after his DNA was found on a piece of tape which was used to form a seal to maintain the air flow on the pipe during the theft.
I want to know more about this crime. Someone should make a movie so I can watch it.
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You have heard of a place called Silicon Valley, right?
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Isn’t that the stated use case? Between specific cities that are in the problem middle distance where driving takes a few hours but its also not worth the hassle of getting on a plane? (Of course a functioning intercity rail network does this too.)
HSR could be built on pylons, if necessary, typically to overpass motorways, rivers or whatever, ad it’s not a difficult thing to do. But it’s cheaper to put the rails on the ground and put a fence to block stray cows and the like. And electric trains haven’t any problem to go in a gallery.
On the other hand making galleries and underground tunnels is difficult and could be stopped by unforeseen problems. You could find an methane or oil and of course you can’t use the hole you’ve just done for train, but to extract the gas.
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“All Yar’ll”. (Regional gender-neutral plural.)
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In test run, Car travels almost as fast as horse.
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For a good reason, in Scotland, I would argue. That being that they already have a functioning social democratic party that also doesn’t want to tie them to a neighbouring country that will always return a Tory majority to rule over them against their will.
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I imagine you could get from one end of the California High Speed Rail system to the other in less than a minute using one of these hyperloop things.
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Sigh. As I said elsewhere yesterday, whenever the plural form is disputed, the mandated resolution is:
Yaripodes.
ETA I see you were later on the right track (oops - I see what I did there)
@Ratel @FSogol @capnjimbo @alahmnat @Beanolini @teknocholer
I have spoken.
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But the ‘minor and temporary’ effects are worrying, though. I think this mode of transport needs a person walking in front with a red flag.
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I guess, if you accept the SNP are no longer “Tartan Tories” and now represent a genuine socialist politics. Though that still doesn’t account for the six Scottish constituencies that now have literal Tory MPs.
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Alfred Ely Beach would be impressed.
Snarfed. A very succinct way of describing such technologies, indeed.
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I didn’t say socialist. Social democratic. And individual constituencies returning Tories doesn’t really say anything about the whole country, just like the LibDem stronghold in the Northern Isles doesn’t.
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