those asian and european lines through wilderness don't prove a thing about trying to get into a dense extended metropolitan area that covers more than one state, with already occupied rail lines that are core to the U.S. economy carrying 40% of the ton-weight for long distance.

So, have to build over highways, or do other elevated, wickedly expensive. Down into the water table around Great Lakes is a bad idea.

Yes that is my point, there are occupied rail corridors that will not shut down and move aside into a pocket dimension. Not a matter of "hard" or "closed minded" , economic and engineering reality are the questions. An elevated rail could do it, that is wickedly expensive. Whatever place you are talking about has wide open land. I see the problem all right, starry eyed dreamers with romantic notions, comparing their empty asian and european wildernesses with Chicago urban area, lolz!

The "walkable city" does have proselytizers saying those things. Here around Chicago we have such groups and even our current state government is pushing it. So I pointed out a stupid thing that really is advocated is stupid, and you are losing your shit over it. Good work sport, watch that blood pressure.

That initial wide section is only hundreds to maybe 1,000 feet deep. No one is making meter wide boring to 1 km outside of reaming between sections of a mine that already exist, or prove me wrong

Sometimes updates re-enable those settings, hahaha.

You can't unenshittify Windows. You're gonna take it in the keister!

no, the biggest vertical bored holes are a few meters wide and less than half a kilometer deep... and generally made between layers of a mine, stuff and space already at the lower end! See "raisebore" and other reaming methods.

This reactor idea is bullshit.

we already have public transportation in the #3 city/metro area here, why would it need to be "walkable"? I'm not carrying 50+ pounds of crap anywhere, infrastructute and buildings won't be moved and created just because of your romantic notions. Juvenile delusions.

you're funny equating intermittent energy with a stable base load source. When the wind doesn't blow or when it's night, you'll need something pricier

What are you imagining? Please explain for example where your NYC to Chicago high speed rail will be as it comes into the geater Chicago area in NW Indiana and southern Chicago suburbs?

where would the land for that come from? Going around great lakes and through mountains are occupied routes. Are you going to push homes out of the way, bore through mountains? You can but it's expensive!

No, it did not stop infection. Absolutely false. Where did you get that idea?

Vaccinated got infected and even had high viral loads

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...

But the massive difference is the vaccinated had much better outcomes, much better chance of avoiding severe symptoms, death, maiming.

So we just need a properly measured amount of nuclear winter; nuclear winter lite (TM), got it.

Good news, we have centuries of supply for such a thing.

I can confirm over longer time periods it feels so good when I stop.

nice fiction, AC. Never happened.

A coworker was bragging to us how even in elementrary school he and his friends would "take a girl behind the bushes" with multiple targets. Look that phrase up. Maybe parents don't want their kids subjected to thugs, gangsters, rapists, thieves, junkies in training. "Protection from the world" you mock, yet we have armed forces and police.