I agree with this and have proposed it many times before. It doesn't even need to be long. 1 minute would kill HFT.

Have fun! I did Tokyo, Nagano, Takiyama and Kyoto this time (4th visit to Japan). The snow monkeys near Nagano were very cool. The closest I have come to Onomichi and Fukayama is passing through them on the Shinkansen on the way to Hiroshima. One day we have the dream of owning a holiday house in Hiroshima we loved it that much.

Building the extra track is by far the more sensible option. It is also far less than double the cost. You already have all the machinery in place and people working on the design and build. The actual physical track cost is relatively small (compared to the total build cost). It would however still increase the cost, particularly of tunnels as they tend to be round so a small increase in size is multiplied massively.

Breakdowns will screw the entire system anyway. Whether or not it is a local or express setup. As for running late you are able to do pretty accurate modelling of how much trains will be delayed by high volumes of passengers. If you take the 95% percentile of station delay time and double that in your scheduling it will only be major cockups which impact the expresses.

Yeah I'm the same. I have these heated wars break out in my facebook feed.

Even more fun though is we have a friend who is expecting her second child in about 3 months and a person in the same friend group who is an anti-vaxer. Because there has been an outbreak of whooping cough (due to anti-vaxers) the expectant mum has said she wont be anywhere near the other mum or their child until her child has all the jabs.

That said the current government has just introduced new legislation that says if your kids haven't had their jabs you lose all child related wellfare. Dependent on your income that could be as much as $15k a year per child.

Thanks. I was under the impression they had connected a local line to all the Shinkansen stations. They have in Shin-Karashiki but from what I can see Shin-Onomichi doesn't have a connection to the local lines.

Of-course you do have to change platforms at a minimum and in some of Japan's stations that can mean a hell of a walk, they are that huge.

There is always an alternative approach, which is to have express and stopping all stations trains. Build the stations. The cost of an additional slab and building is relatively low in the total cost then have expresses stop at the majors and skip the smaller stations.

In Japan the Shinkansen stations are connected to or part of a larger general network station. The idea is that they connect hub stations to each other, not that the shinkansens are a stand alone station for the location.

As for security. You walk to them and get on. I was there 3 weeks ago with my family towing suitcases. No one even looked twice at us. The trains are wider than an aircraft and the seats much more comfortable. You also have the choice between allocated and non allocated seating.

Because there is no security, baggage check/reclaim, early boarding time and the stations are in main areas they end up being faster than flying in short distance travel. Finally because they are well connected stations already you catch the tube to the shinkansen alleviating any parking issues.

No I think your maths is broken.

Current world population 7 billion. 1% of 7 billion is 70 million.

Credit Suisse estimates world wealth at over $250 Trillion - https://publications.credit-su...

According to Oxfam (biased towards putting the wealth into the 1% category) 48% of the worlds wealth is held by the top 1% - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.... 48% of $250 Trillion is $120 Trillion.

$120 Trillion / 70 million is $1,714,285. Which shows if you want to get into the top 1% you need nearly 5 times as much money as you suggest.

I have 2 kids and I have some sympathy for the family and I can say that before having had my kids I wouldn't have.

According to the article both the parents are doctors so it would be fair to assume they are not stupid. They probably know that there is almost no chance of their daughter ever being restored, in fact they probably know it better than most. It would also be fair to assume that both being doctors that they are well paid, so $40,000 may not be that large an amount of money.

If one of my girls was dying and there was a random highly unlikely treatment I could try for $40k I can safely say I would do it. Would I get one of them frozen? Probably not but more for the points you made about everything from her past being long dead. The author Peter F. Hamilton actually uses suspension, where people are frozen for 1000 years or more, as criminal punishment in some of his novels.

As for the research, brain cancer in children is extremely nasty. It moves very very quickly and is fatal pretty much every time. It is also not that rare. The medical institutions will have already had everything they could use for research from her already. Having taking most of the left hemisphere there was little more her body could have been used for.

My 2 year old was frozen and thawed. She has 5 twins still sitting in the freezer.

Except what if you want to land where there are no crews.

The barge is there because they are currently not allowed to land on the ground. The people monitoring it are there because this is still experimental. I would expect that a funnel would create all kinds of hard to predict blowback from the rocket itself and present its own engineering challenges.

If you consider Musk's stated goal of landing on Mars then landing without anything other than a flat patch of ground becomes necessary.

I believe the aim though is to require no special landing equipment. Given these tests are essentially covered in the launch price for the ISS SpaceX are likely to keep trying unassisted landings until they either succeed or say it is outside their capability.

It's a fireblast though rather than an explosion. When the rocket falls over the tank is ruptured and the fuel vapours pour out and are ignited. This then results in a flash fire and a pretty impressive fireball. There is nothing of any real strength containing the blast pressure so most of the energy is dissipated harmlessly into the air.

You would probably find the surface of the vessel is something like thin concrete over a steel plate. The concrete will likely only have minor damage that can simply be patched. If the hull hasn't been breached and the engines undamaged it is good to go.

I'm not sure if you a trolling or not.... The LG circle case is a folio style case so it has a door that closes over the screen. The case then has a small circle cut in it and the phone tailors your message notifications to fit inside the small circle. This way if you phone bleeps you can see what the message was without opening the phone case. You can also see who is calling you and answer / decline calls via the small window.

Or they will do it the way Governments do it.

This role is to be an AO7 band 2 with a salary of $68,000. Now the private sector pays $180,000 for the same skillset so we are willing to offer a salary of $180,000 on a contract basis. The duration of the contract is 5 years.