Comment Re:Physics is a bitch isn't it (Score 1, Informative) 612
ehum...
just a short note. check your map. i live in china for the time being. area? should be about the same as the US. cities far apart from each other? Duh, yeah. Train travel used widely? YAP. a LOT. on the ABSOLUTELY NOT densely populated countryside to the west as well as the HIGHLY densely populated coast in the east (14-30 million people / city).
I an a foreigner here, and even for biz trips we use the train sometimes. we have German high speed trains (ICE licence) and the maglev in shanghai (neat... fast, quiet, less expensive than a cabride. and a cab costs nothing here). it IS less hassle then flying. i am in sales and i travel a LOT here.
nothing new said here, just dont assume that because of US's huge and not so densely populated area train travel would work. it does.
just a short note. check your map. i live in china for the time being. area? should be about the same as the US. cities far apart from each other? Duh, yeah. Train travel used widely? YAP. a LOT. on the ABSOLUTELY NOT densely populated countryside to the west as well as the HIGHLY densely populated coast in the east (14-30 million people / city).
I an a foreigner here, and even for biz trips we use the train sometimes. we have German high speed trains (ICE licence) and the maglev in shanghai (neat... fast, quiet, less expensive than a cabride. and a cab costs nothing here). it IS less hassle then flying. i am in sales and i travel a LOT here.
nothing new said here, just dont assume that because of US's huge and not so densely populated area train travel would work. it does.
